andre is cool

prince is ice cold

u dig?

The Oct/Nov issue of Complex magazine conatins an article on Outkast where Andre mentions Prince (pretty funny), even though his memory fails him as far as getting a minor fact straight

Here is an excerpt from the article where it starts to discuss Andre's 1/2 of the new double album, The Love Below:

...the songs form a narrative, a loosely autobiographical story about an artistic, womanizing black man named Possum who lives in Paris thinking he can't ever fall in love- until he does. It's a very 'Under The Cherry Moon' construct, and infact, Andre seems to have unearthed a passion for Prince, whose open-minded, new wave-inspired funk spirit courses through 'The Love Below.'
Andre acknowledges Prince's influence, but says it was unconscious; the result of being under the Purple Spell from a really young age. "I had to be like 10 or 12 years old when I got 'When Doves Cry,' the single,"
Andre says. "The flipside was this thing called 'God,' which really scared me." So he took the record outside, placed it on the sidewalk, and "smashed it on the ground- it sounded creepy."

[By the way, the new Outkast album is pretty hot--especially Andre 3000's half... you gotta check it out. Some very Prince-like stuff... -Ben]

wasnt God the b side of purple rain??

Whats so interesting to me is that when I listened to 'GOD' the very first time, I had the music very loud, and curious to see what this b-side song was all about...since I enjoyed the Instrumental in the movie 'Purple Rain' atleast I thought it was the same track...but while listening to Prince sing this song and hearing the music, had me looking behind me, making sure no one would creep up and scare the living day lights out of me, because it was a very strange and scary song to listen to as a child in my room...and not hearing anyone around me but Prince's scream...I find this fascinating that alot of us were very scared and creeped out when we'd listen to the song 'GOD' til this day, I won't listen to it unless I'm in a room full of people.

It has this strange effect on me alone...and I'd never listen to it in the dark...oh HELL NO!

sumtymes said:

it's the other way around nowadays imo.

[By the way, the new Outkast album is pretty hot--especially Andre 3000's half... you gotta check it out. Some very Prince-like stuff... -Ben]

[By the way, the new Outkast album is pretty hot--especially Andre 3000's half... you gotta check it out. Some very Prince-like stuff... -Ben]

as funky as The Love Below is...

DO NOT SLEEP on Big Boi's disc (Andre is on there too)

just check "Church" and you wil truly know!!!


-peaceternal

Exactly what is it that is so scarry? Didn't bother me at all when i heard it. And to smash it is such a silly reaction. That would be a rare collector's item now.

BEN said:

Which goes to show you, there still ain't something so new that it won't draw comparisons yet in popular music.

Though it it nice to hear more Funk like music being released, too bad it comes as a Hip Hop package.


God is fabulous! Didn't creep me out one bit! I thought it was him trying musically to describe God.

It was a blues song in a way.

People stomp on records that they find go against their beliefs or are "scared" and threw out tapes out cars...those are the ones that creep ME out.


I've got a Munsters soundtrack around here somewhere...if anyone wants to stomp on scawy records...

Amen Brotha!



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[This message was edited Tue Oct 7 17:22:53 PDT 2003 by FlyingCloudPassenger]