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André twists and shouts and wears green, exposing the upper body TV was made for. His acting is pitch perfect: shirtless, stoic drummer cowboy cool bass player shy, friendly bandleader. A multiracial crowd, leaning toward white, screams like it’s 1964 while he tears the scorecard to bits. André appears on a mythical English TV show with himself, digitally edited together, playing his own live band. The video for “Hey Ya!” (which you can watch here) is more witty than hilarious, but it’s spectacularly welcome in an era where rock stars truck in more self-pity than panache. The laughs mean he can engage moral questions without making you want to hit him with a wet sock. The Love Below is one of the only hip-hop albums where the skits are actually worth listening to. But after Prince became his own boss and retreated deep into Paisley Park, he lost his sense of humor. (“ She Lives in My Lap“ is basically a remake of “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” from Sign ‘O’ the Times). Those are the easy questions.Īndré’s similarity to Prince has been widely noted. Is it too long? It’s two CDs, so you already knew it was too long. It’s better than anything else on your desk. Is SB/TLB worth buying? Hell, it’s OutKast. Whether it continues to sell through Christmas is another story. “We have to keep re-stocking the end-caps every 90 minutes or so,” he was told. (The RIAA counts one sale of a two-disc set as two sales, so 500,000 sales of SB/TLB become 1 million, making the title platinum instead of gold.) A friend went to the Virgin Megastore in New York’s Union Square over the weekend and asked how the album was selling. The CD will have sold 500,000 copies by the time you read this, making it one of the few quick platinum arrivals in a soggy business year.
Peak of career, working on tracks separately, huge anticipation = The White Album. The new OutKast double CD, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, offers one disc by each member: Antwan “Big Boi” Patton provides OutKast-style hip-hop as we already know it on Speakerboxxx André Benjamin does anything but on The Love Below. Jackson” ‘s home, has sold almost 4 million copies to date, twice the number for the previous OutKast album, Aquemini.