As I sit here writing this sentence, Frank Ocean’s new album, Boys Don’t Cry has yet to be released. A report came out Tuesday morning saying that it would be released Friday, Aug. 5 on Apple Music. The rest of the world would have it two weeks later. But now it is, in fact, Friday, Aug. 5, and no one has Ocean’s album. I don’t. You don’t. NO ONE DOES. Well, maybe President Obama does — cashing in on those POTUS perks while he can.
The Internet is predictably doing what it does best while waiting on this missing album: Complain on social media to express their sadness, grief, frustration and quasi-anger with hilarious tweets.
There are the “sitting here waiting” tweets…
https://twitter.com/19floyd84/status/761556125682663424
https://twitter.com/pcap/status/761579635729571840
https://twitter.com/Itsjustrose__/status/761579678985510912
Waiting for the new Frank Ocean album to drop like pic.twitter.com/SJjJOFfEKz
— ronnie (@mamabassbunny) August 5, 2016
Waking up and finding out #FrankOcean hasn't released anything yet pic.twitter.com/odvKXLb91O
— jake (@JakeFromIowa) August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/LouisConst/status/761572900486967296
We might not have Boys Don’t Cry, but at least we have .gifs. Then there are tweets dripping with sadness (and some sarcasm)…
Frank Ocean fans this morning. pic.twitter.com/9Zl9SgurkA
— Perez (@ThePerezHilton) August 5, 2016
Good morning to everyone except frank ocean
— Abby Jasmine (@abbyjasmine) August 5, 2016
And there are some tweets trying to make sense of a seemingly senseless situation…
if frank ocean doesn't release this album i will never go anywhere near an ocean ever again
— Parker (@ParkerKitHill) August 5, 2016
Frank Ocean's "album" feels like Will Smith's dad in Fresh Prince. Gives hope for like a brief moment, then… nothing.
— Jasmine (@JasmineLWatkins) August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/ZackPearlman/status/761579169700384768
I remember the night I crept downstairs, saw my parents crooning in a heartbreaking falsetto, and realized Frank Ocean isn't real.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/Ethan_Booker/status/761534449339072512
https://twitter.com/TheThomasCRWN/status/761551578142826496
And finally, some folks out there are just straight up dropping truth bombs…
https://twitter.com/jaycaspiankang/status/761526810182053888
https://twitter.com/kamaricopeland/status/761527984243081216
Is this the leaked track list #FrankOcean?- come on @FrankOcean – let's do this pic.twitter.com/hUxLRF8lGW
— RYDR (@RYDER) August 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/StakerMorgan/status/761580260420759552
Where art thou, Frank Ocean?
— Colin Jones (@colinjones) August 5, 2016
I don’t know @colinjones. I wish I did. I wish we all did.
Well, at least it’s Friday.
So at least we have that going for us.
Standing by, Frank.