Blood Orange
Blood Orange
Blood Orange
Blood Orange & Diddy & Tei Shi
Blood Orange
Blood Orange & Janet Mock
Blood Orange
Blood Orange
Blood Orange & A$AP Rocky & Project Pat
Blood Orange & Ian Isiah
Blood Orange
Blood Orange
Blood Orange & Georgia Anne Muldrow
Blood Orange & Steve Lacy
Blood Orange
Blood Orange
Blood Orange
[Verse 1: Devonté Hynes]
Dreaming Orlando, get it?
Give it time
Walked these steps before
Sixteen-year-old boy
Confused and knowing that he's different, he wants to give in
After school, sucker punched down
Down and out
[Refrain: Devonté Hynes]
First kiss was the floor
First kiss was the floor
[Verse 2: Devonté Hynes]
Think that it won't make a difference if you don't get up
Timing is all
I don't know, tell us more
What they want me to think?
That I'm changing [?]
All that I know was taught to me young
Seen it all before
[Refrain: Devonté Hynes]
First kiss the floor
First kiss the floor
First kiss the floor
Shoot, baby, shoot
[Outro: Janet Mock & Devonté Hynes]
Life on the floor
You know, it's an insult we often put onto
Beneath the world
A lot of folk is, like, oh, you're doing too much
So, like, a couple years ago I was like
You know what? My resolution, my internal resolution will be to
Sand in your pearls
To do too much
Yes, I love it
Orlando was written by Devonté Hynes.
Orlando was produced by Devonté Hynes.
Blood Orange released Orlando on Fri Aug 24 2018.
For an interview with Pitchfork in which he spoke about each song on Negro Swan, Dev Hynes provided insight into the opening track:
Pitchfork: This eases listeners into the album in a very gentle way.
Dev Hynes: That one’s interesting because it’s the first and only time I tried an experiment that...
The song was probably named after the U.S city Orlando, Florida. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a terrorist attack inside Pulse, a gay nightclub located in Orlando. Devonte who has been an outspoken advocate of the LGBT commun...