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"Happy Valentine's Day" is actually one of the weaker ones in the first half imo, a little clunky. still like it tho.
"Behold a Lady," "Pink & Blue" and especially "Vibrate" are the most offensively bad songs on there I think
I got into the album a little after the fact so I didn't really experience the "this is GENIUS" initial response & the backlash
― nova, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
OK well yeah I'm conflating a lot, I/my irl friends were excited cos we loved Outkast and Hey Ya, it was disappointing but w hindsight p good, overall. Also ILM ws p staunchly against it, which made an impression on me
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
I don't think TLB's love was later revisionism, at least not in my quarters, cos everybody I knew was jizzing over it. Probably had more to do with the fact that the "rapper turnt sanger" concept was more novel, and folks viewed the sprawling, meandering nature of most of his songs to be "progressive" when they were really just "boring".
I do have to admit my initial reaction to it was not entirely fair. I was fine with him expanding his repertoire, but an album containing zero rap from a dude who was 1/2 of my favorite rap duo immediately turned me off. First listen, I liked "Hey Ya" and one or two more tracks, but once I got to the abysmal "Roses", I gave up and moved to Speakerboxx.
A few years later, I was ambushed by one of the funkier numbers from the album that I liked, so I revisited it and found that I actually liked more of the album than I remembered. However, still far too little to consider it a classic.
There were a few "rapper evolves into actual singer/writer" thoughts around, I think (not coming frm me). It ended up being a cool initially foray into modern soul funk stuff, would've been cool to hear more (was there any?)
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
I liked the idea of him doing an album of this type stuff, but the execution was off. Did not like it from the beginning, sold the CD within a few days. Doesn't change the fact they are my favorite group of all time tho.
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link