#speakerboxxx/the love below

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[thechanelmuse]

As it should be.

[deepdwnbodythurst]

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

[milos-engineering-tactics]

You’ll never convince me Dean Winchester was never in a club in 2004 and didn’t heard this banger of an album

Tell me Sam Winchester didn’t hear this at every college bar he walked into

Tell. me. I’m. wrong.

[groovetrill]

Caroline (Caroline), see, Caroline

All the guys would say she's mighty fine (mighty fine)

But mighty fine only got you somewhere half the time

And the other half either got you

Cussed out or coming up short

Yeah, now dig this, now even though (even though)

You'd need a golden calculator to divide (to divide)

The time it took to look inside and realize

That real guys go for real down to Mars girls, haha, yeah

I know you'd like to think your shit don't stank, but

Lean a little bit closer, see

Roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh

Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh

I know you'd like to think your shit don't stank, but

Lean a little bit closer, see

Roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh

Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh

Caroline, (Caroline), see

She's the reason for the word 'bitch' (bitch)

I hope she's speedin' on the way to the club

Tryna hurry up to get to a baller or singer or somebody like that

And try to put on her make up in the mirror and crash, crash

Crash into a ditch (Just playin')

She needs a golden calculator to divide (to divide)

The time it takes to look inside and realize

That real guys go for real down to Mars girls, yeah

I know you'd like to think your shit don't stank, but

Lean a little bit closer, see

Roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh

Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh

I know you'd like to think your shit don't stank, but

Lean a little bit closer, see

Roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh

Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-ooh

[kwaggysshardmindemporium]

Albumposting continues! So today was Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by Outkast. So this is an interesting one because it's not *really* an Outkast album? It's a double album, with each constituent album written by one of the two guys in Outkast with little presence from the other on each half. Unfortunately, I like neither album. The Love Below was closer to my speed. I mean, who doesn't love "Hey Ya!?" And in a true miracle, it has a mid-album interlude skip that was actually FUN. Didn't even know that was allowed. That's "Good Day, Good Sir." I got a chuckle out of it and it leads really nicely into the song after it. I feel like if I were to START from the point where it switches to The Love Below, I'd actually really like it? But as is, it comes after I've already listened to like an HOUR of music I didn't particularly enjoy by the time it gets there and is itself another HOUR and it's just okay so by the time it's over I'm just begging for an end to this shit. I was going to give this a 2, but honestly I think after I've just sat here giving decent praise to the latter half I've gotta at least go 3.

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Outkast released their fifth album Speakerboxxx / The Love Below September 23, 2003

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[belovedbluv]

Album Art for OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below, photography by Jonathan Mannion, 2003

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GhettoMusick - Outkast

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Outkast - Hey Ya! 2003

"Hey Ya!" is a song by American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released as one of two lead singles from their fifth album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, on August 25, 2003. The track became a commercial success, reaching number one in the US, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Norway, and Sweden. "Hey Ya!" received critical acclaim upon release, and is consistently ranked as one of the greatest songs of the 2000s. It was ranked number ten in Rolling Stone's revised 2021 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". "Hey Ya!" was the first song on Apple's iTunes to reach one million downloads and in September 2005, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the single platinum for shipping one million copies. At the 46th Grammy Awards, the song won Best Urban/Alternative Performance and was nominated for Record of the Year.

In the video, André 3000 plays all eight members of the fictional band The Love Below: keyboardist Benjamin André, bassist Possum Aloysius Jenkins, vocalist André "Ice Cold" 3000, drummer Dookie Blossom Gain III, three backing vocalists the Love Haters, and guitarist Johnny Vulture. At the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards, the video won four awards for Video of the Year, Best Hip-Hop Video, Best Special Effects, and Best Art Direction. It was also nominated for Best Direction. "Hey Ya!" was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the 46th Grammy Awards. In Canada, it won the award for Best International Video by a group at the 2004 MuchMusic Video Awards.

"Hey Ya!" received a total of 92,5% yes votes!