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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: More Outkast thoughts (was Re: L.A. has a new "indie" |
| Date | Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:06:32 -0500 |
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At 08:59 PM 1/4/2004 -0600, Michael Bennett wrote:
>It still happens today (Nelly Furtado is an example), but it's so rare.
>This isn't to diminish the Andre disc (not to slight Big Boi's disc -- it's
>very good, but it's accomplishment is more lyrical/thematic -- the music
>tracks are more straightforward) -- but I don't know if it's so much
>groundbreaking as liberating -- maybe others will realize you can experiment
>and have fun while doing it.
I don't know if Jason was saying that the OutKast album is groundbreaking,
just that it's important, and for the very reason that you say: it's proof
that you can have a huge commercial success (it hit number 1 for the third
or fourth time last week -- it just keeps bouncing back up there after it
drops down to #5 or so!) while making a deliberately, almost willfully
eclectic and wide-ranging album that, frankly, has got some downright weird
shit on it. It's not exactly groundbreaking -- the review I wrote compared
it favorably to Prince's classic DIRTY MIND/LOVESEXY run, only even more
out there -- but it's so rare to see such a genuinely exciting album at #1
that it's easy to get giddy.
By the way, I like Nelly Furtado's "Powerless (Say What You Want)" so much
that I'm considering forgiving her for that frickin' "I'm Like A Bird"
thing. Is the rest of the album any good?
S
NP: CASTAWAYS AND CUTOUTS -- The Decemberists (speaking of being late to
the bandwagon...)
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