Announced on short notice (and attended by an exclusive list of guests that included musicians, television personalities, members of the press, and more), the event took its name from the pre-exposure prophylaxis treatment (the brand-name drug is called Truvada) designed to help prevent new HIV infections in high-risk communities, and set house rules banning discrimination of all sorts.
The single was well-received by press and fans, but Blonded’s new queer club night PrEP+ is drawing a mixed response. Snippets of new songs called “ Dear April” and “ Cayendo” suggest more is in the pipeline.
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Eagle-eyed fans are convinced the single’s artwork - which contains a series of 13 icons in the bottom right corner, the fourth of which corresponds to the “DHL” cover - is a hint that there’s an album on the way. The hook flexes about drugs, sex, diamonds, and coming back from trips around the world to new mail at home, name-checking the international express shipping company DHL and the Japanese motor-vehicle company Kawasaki, while geeking over Starbucks and trade, like a queer rendering of the woozy dream sequences of A$AP Rocky’s Testing. The lyrics range from devilishly conceited (“Niggas think it’s new, it ain’t new, boy / Old files just turned two, yeah / Still sound like it’s coming soon, yeah” “Independent juug, sellin’ records out the trunk / I’m already rich as fuck, so the product’s in the front”) to mysterious (“This ain’t no fuckin’ hopes and dreams prophecy / How’d he sleep? Faith is in the coffee bean”) to just plain horny (“Boy toy suck me like a Hoover / Boy toy ride me like an Uber”). Co-produced by German house DJ Boys Noize, Ocean’s new “DHL” is a psychedelic floss track rooted in the cryptic swag rap of 2016’s Endless. Is Frank Ocean circling album mode again? In the last five days, the Blonded team rolled out a new party, a new radio mix, a new single, a bounce remix of Blonde’s “Nights,” and more. If PrEP+’s aim was to assemble a constellation of queer media and celebrities and force a conversation through them, then everyone is talking.
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