--- title: Frank Ocean Sings to Brad Pitt, Spike Jonze at FYF Fest description: Frank Ocean brought out Brad Pitt for a surprise appearance that Spike Jonze filmed during his performance at FYF Festival. canonical: https://time.com/4870918/frank-ocean-sings-to-brad-pitt-fyf-festival/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-24T16:00:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:35.863Z og:title: Watch Frank Ocean Romantically Serenade Brad Pitt On Stage og:description: The bromance of your dreams og:url: https://time.com/4870918/frank-ocean-sings-to-brad-pitt-fyf-festival/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt131d02418b16d544/6988d6e597cdff31716b1b83/frank-ocean-sings-to-brad-pitt-at-fyf-festival.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Parklife Festival 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Frank Ocean Romantically Serenade Brad Pitt On Stage twitter:description: The bromance of your dreams twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt131d02418b16d544/6988d6e597cdff31716b1b83/frank-ocean-sings-to-brad-pitt-at-fyf-festival.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Find Someone to Serenade You Like Frank Ocean Romantically Singing for Brad Pitt > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Visionhaus#GP/Corbis via Getty Images)) Visionhaus—Corbis via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 24, 2017 4:00 PM UTC The dreamy, almost-too-perfect-to-be-true bromance between noted emotional boys [Frank Ocean](http://time.com/4413818/frank-ocean-next-album-boys-dont-cry/) and [Brad Pitt](http://time.com/4811428/brad-pitt-weather-man/) has reached new heights thanks to Pitt’s surprise appearance during Ocean’s headlining set at FYF Fest in Los Angeles. Pitt, who revealed in a past interview that [his post-divorce playlist included lots of Frank tunes](http://time.com/4764906/brad-pitt-breakup-playlist/) to which Frank responded by wearing [a shirt with Pitt’s photogenic visage on it at a concert](http://time.com/4814955/frank-ocean-brad-pitt-bromance/), sat on the stage, appearing to talk on a telephone while Ocean sang his song “Closer to You,” [an homage to Stevie Wonder’s live performance of the Carpenters’ “Close to You” and the Jackson 5’s “Never Can Say Goodbye.”](http://djbooth.net/news/entry/2016-08-25-frank-ocean-closer-to-you) As if that weren’t enough cultural clout crowded into one perfect performance, director Spike Jonze was on deck to film the whole thing. 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