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Frank Ocean. Singer, songwriter, magazine editor, underwear model.
And now, perhaps, novelist.
While fans lose their minds over whether the mysterious R&B singer's long-anticipated second album might, possibly, just maybe be released in July, he is providing a peek into his relationship with music, boxer briefs—and more subtly, long-form fiction writing—in a new Calvin Klein campaign.
A minute-long spot, promoting CK's fall clothing line, opens on a '90s-style talk-show set, where Ocean is a guest. It then shifts—with a shot of a shirtless blonde model sandwiched in a burst of static—to a surreal pink pastel room, where Ocean, barefoot in a charcoal suit and white shirt, defies the laws of physics, playing with a ball that moves impossibly and performing a casual, free-standing lean of which Michael Jackson would be proud.
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