Frank Ocean Bought a $6.35 Million House in Malibu

Frank Ocean might working on new music (and whatever tours might come out of it) but he doesn’t need to see the world anymore. He’s got the beach, courtesy of a $6.35 million home he bought in Malibu, Variety reports

Ocean purchased the 5-bedroom, 4-bathroom home nestled between the mountains and ocean two years ago, but details of the sale have only become public now, as Ocean works on renovating the property’s mid-century ranch home. The 2802-square foot home sits on 1.5 acres overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway and Carbon Beach from a bluff. The house is hidden from the main road by a copse of trees and other foliage and includes a master bedroom with a soaking tub and a functioning fireplace in the family room. See photos over at Variety.

Here’s hoping the new place provides Ocean with the space he needs, where can craft the fantastical club record that does a 180 on his vulnerable and open aesthetic. 

“I believed for a very long time that there was strength in vulnerability, and I really don’t believe that anymore,” he said in a recent interview with W. “The expectation for artists to be vulnerable and truthful is a lot, you know?—when it’s no longer a choice. Like, in order for me to satisfy expectations, there needs to be an outpouring of my heart or my experiences in a very truthful, vulnerable way. I’m more interested in lies than that. Like, give me a full motion-picture fantasy.”

For his new music, he said that he’s pulling from “the many different iterations of nightlife for music and songs,” incorporating ideas from “Detroit, Chicago, techno, house, French electronic.”