9 Songs You Didn't Know Are About Being Bisexual

2. Frank Ocean - "Forrest Gump"

Forrest Gump, you run my mind, boyRunning on my mind, boy...You're so buff, and so strongI'm nervous, Forrest

Homosexuality and bisexuality aren't really discussed in R&B music. Well, usually not without a little condemnation attached to it, anyway. That's part of what makes Frank Ocean such a unique perspective within his genre. Not only does he move far beyond the typical, vague sentiments of love that populate so much of the genre's most popular output, but he does so while declaring his own bisexuality.

Rather than disguising the gender of his love interest in "Forrest Gump" with generic pronouns like "you" or "they," he chose to be forthright about the song's topic. When asked about it in interviews, he's passionate, saying that he has "no interest" in playing into the sexual whitewashing of pop music. It's not always about a man and a woman, and "Forrest Gump" proves that can be a great and wonderful thing.

His debut album, Channel Orange, features a few other songs that hint at Ocean's sexual preferences, but none have quite the same effect as "Forrest Gump." Because the greatest thing about this song isn't the declaration of man-on-man love, it's the casual breeziness that Ocean delivers it with, inserting stupid jokes about his ex-lover like this was just...another...love song. Not a love song about him being bisexual. Just a love song. And that's the greatest statement of all.