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Issued as a double album, its playtime of more than two hours is distributed over solo albums from each of the group's members. Big Boi's Speakerboxxx is a Southern hip hop album with a P- Funk influence, while André 3. The Love Below features psychedelic, pop, funk, electro, and jazz styles.[1]Speakerboxxx/The Love Below received widespread acclaim from music critics, who praised the consistency of Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and the eclectic musical style of André 3. The Love Below. The album was supported with the hit singles "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move", which both reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 1.

Roses". Speakerboxxx/The Love Below has been certifieddiamond and 1. RIAA (each disc in the double album counted as a separate unit for certification).

As of March 2. 01. United States.[2]Background[edit]Following the release of Outkast's fourth studio album Stankonia (2.

André 3. 00. 0 felt urged to do something different from his previous projects and moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He was relatively unsuccessful, obtaining a minor role in Hollywood Homicide (2. The Shield. He returned to music and recorded a solo album that was different from the material he had recorded as part of Outkast.

The output was a blend of pop, jazz and funk with live instruments and singing instead of rapping.[3] When writing songs he used a micro cassette recorder in order to "record melodic ideas and lyrics, then build the melody around the lyrics".[4]The CD artwork is designed so that the Speakerboxxx artwork is on the front of the case, whereas the Love Below artwork is on the back of the case. These images are merged on the artwork displayed on online stores (Front cover on left, back cover on right).

The CD booklet and the credits printed within is also divided in half and the back cover is printed on both sides, allowing fans to customize who appears on both the front and back covers. Recording[edit]The recording of The Love Below began at André 3. Los Angeles home, using Pro Tools software,[4] in addition to a drum machine, keyboards and various synthesizers.[5] He enjoyed the atmosphere of recording at home instead of a studio, saying to XXL, "it didn't start in the studio because if you have a bunch of people around, they're coming from the party and I'm in there singing falsetto .. His initial sessions were hampered by his inexperience with Pro Tools and, unaware how to edit his recordings, he opted to record songs such as "Pink & Blue" in their entirety.[4] Other gear used included an Avalon VT7. SP and AD2. 05. 5 EQ and AD2. After creating five songs, he informed Big Boi of the solo project he had been working on.[3]Big Boi had already recorded some songs when André 3.

Speakerboxxx.[3] Describing his approach in the studio, Big Boi later commented to XXL, "the idea was just to keep it funky, keep it jamming, it's always bass- heavy. And lyricism, it's all about lyrics, taking pride in your pen and your pad." His favorite song to record was "Unhappy". He spent several days working on "Unhappy"'s hook before driving to his mother's home and playing the song in her driveway, to which she responded enthusiastically.[4] At some point in the recording, the project moved to Out. Kast's Stankonia Studios in downtown Atlanta, which had been used to record Out.

Kast's previous release and namesake. John Frye, the studio manager and an engineer, would later recognise that much of the media attention surrounding the album's recording was concerned with André 3. Big Boi's working relationship and why they had chosen to record separately. He concedes that both enjoyed working solo and were doing so more frequently, but they continued to share and critique each other's music.[5]John Frye also describes how the format of the projects changed rapidly. Initially intended as two separate solo releases, they decided to merge their work and create a soundtrack album as André 3.

The duo then began preparing to work on a motion picture, but reconsidered and compromised by interpolating background noise into songs, such as the slamming of car doors and footsteps.[4][5] They eventually settled on releasing a double album. Frye noted the end of the recording sessions as particularly stressful for André 3. In total, an estimated 1.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.[5]Composition[edit]Speakerboxxx/The Love Below' is a two- disc set that features thirty- nine tracks, including several interludes and a postlude.[6] It is a concept album with the intention of each disc delivering each member's individual perspective and sound.[4]The Love Below is substantially longer than Big Boi's Speakerboxxx, clocking in at almost 7. Speakerboxxx. Featured guests on Speakerboxxx include Sleepy Brown, Jazze Pha, Jay Z, Cee. Lo Green, Killer Mike, Goodie Mob, Lil Jon and Ludacris. Guests on The Love Below include Rosario Dawson, Norah Jones, Kelis, and Fonzworth Bentley.[6]Speakerboxxx is built on Southern hip hop[3]Speakerboxxx demonstrated more social awareness than its counterpart, with themes of family, philosophy, religion, politics and "a wider emotional terrain .. In contrast, The Love Below was identified as far more musically experimental. Its sound was described as jazz and funk with comparisons to the work of Prince.[3] The disc's abounding theme is love, examining the emotions one experiences when falling in love and loving oneself.[3] Roni Sarig suggests that André 3. Watch Frankie And Johnny Online Etonline. Erykah Badu had influenced much of the lyrical content on the album, which he sees as concerned with the search for true love.[3]Critical reception[edit]Speakerboxxx/The Love Below received widespread acclaim from critics.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 1. In his review for All. Music, Stephen Thomas Erlewine called both discs "visionary, imaginative listens, providing some of the best music of 2. Will Hermes wrote in Entertainment Weekly that the album's "ambition flies so far beyond that of anyone doing rap right now (or pop, or rock, or R& B)".[1.

Blender magazine's Kris Ex felt that it "holds an explosion of creativity that couldn't have been contained in just one LP".[9]The Guardian's Dorian Lynskey described both discs as "sublime .. Sign o' the Times or The White Album: a career- defining masterpiece of breathtaking ambition".[1. According to Andy Gill of The Independent, the album set "a new benchmark not just for hip hop, but for pop in general".[1. Stylus Magazine's Nick Southall called it "a series of spectacular moments and memorable events".[1]NME magazine's John Mulvey described its two discs as "two Technicolor explosions of creativity that people will be exploring, analysing and partying to for years".[1. Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine wrote that it is "greater than the sum of its parts, and this kind of expertly crafted pop and deftly executed funk rarely happen at the same time—not since Stankonia, at least."[1. In a mixed review, Rolling Stone writer Jon Caramanica was ambivalent towards André 3. Pitchfork's Brent Di.

Crescenzo felt that Speakerboxxx "manages to maintain consistent brilliance and emotional complexity throughout", unlike The Love Below.[1. In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau said the double album could have been "the classic P- Funk rip it ain't quite" had Speakerboxxx alone been issued with "Roses", "Spread", "Hey Ya!", and "an oddity of [André 3. He nonetheless commended what he described as "commercial ebullience, creative confidence, and wretched excess, blessed excess, impressive excess".[1. In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2. Roni Sarig wrote that, "for sheer breadth, ambition, and musical vision, there's little doubt Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a classic."[1. Accolades[edit]Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll.