Songfacts®:

• This slow-burning, minimal ballad finds Frank Ocean using the image of a ride in a white Ferrari as a metaphor for a fast and pure relationship with a lover.
• When Ocean sings the line "spending each day of the year" (at the 1.45min mark), he uses the same melodic phrasing as in The Beatles' 1966 Revolver track "Here, There And Everywhere."
  
  Speaking in an interview at the Time 100 Gala, Ocean said that he was listening to The Beatles and The Beach Boys for inspiration while making the album.
  
  He also sampled another Beatles track "Flying" for the Blonde song "Seigfried."
• Frank Ocean revealed to the New York Times that there were 50 different versions of this song, and that his younger brother's favorite didn't make the final cut. "I have a 15-year-old little brother, and he heard one of the versions, and he's like, 'You gotta put that one out, that's the one'," Ocean said. "And I was like, 'Naw, that's not the version,' because it didn't give me peace yet."
• Frank Ocean wrote the song with his go-to writing partner Malay, and with Kanye West. Yeezy also served as a backup vocalist on the track.
  
  While "White Ferrari" is the only Blonde track West contributed towards, he also penned a poem about McDonald's for Boys Don't Cry, a magazine that accompanied its physical release.
• "White Ferrari" went viral on TikTok in December 2024 thanks to the "lamp looks weird" trend. This trend encourages users to question the reality of their experiences, prompting introspection on whether their current moment is truly happening or if it's a figment of their imagination, a simulation, or even a dream.