SINCE THE 1993 RELEASE of OutKast's debut single, "Player's Ball," André 3000 has cultivated a powerful distaste for easy wins. Resistance was always core to his duo with Big Boi, and OutKast's wide web of interests yielded dense, unpredictable American pop music, cementing the group's reputation as one of the most gifted songwriting teams in any musical tradition. André in particular seemed to delight in scrambling normies' circuits. "It's the people who take whatever music they doing so far to the left of what was going on," he gushed while naming influences in a 2000 Rolling Stone profile. "Put on any album from goddamned 1966 and put on a Sly Stone album-it sounds very different. P-Funk from any time sounds different. Those are the people that inspired us to blow niggas' minds." Across later OutKast works, André seemed driven by an appetite for this interdisciplinary respect, as the gritty metacommentary on fame, rap clichés, and industry politics guiding "Ova da Wudz" and "Return of the 'G" took a back seat to the restless experimentation of 2003's The Love Below.
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This Is Getting Interesting
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A 'Bright Spot' in Washington
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In the beginning, there was Oprah. Now, there are over a dozen celebrity-helmed book clubs that could make an author's career. But do they actually move the needle? \"It used to be that if you got a big book-club pick, your book was an automatic best seller, and that is so not the case anymore,\" says one publicist. We asked 15 authors and industry insiders what these clubs can really do for a book.
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YOU KNOW THE WORK of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don't think you do.
As Seen at Sundance
The talk of the ski town this year was chilly.
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THE LAST TABOO
14 ADULTS ON COMING TO TERMS WITH, LYING ABOUT, DEPENDING ON. AND SPENDING THEIR PARENTS' MONEY.
Global Tongue A class in Iran probes English's transformative and oppressive powers.
SOMETIMES I THINK you can only speak one language,\" says a character in Sanaz Toossi's English.
