Outkast's last single from their 2003 double CD package, "Speakerboxx" (Big Boi) & "The Love Below" (Andre 3000) presents one of the worst choreographed fight scenes in music video history, if not the absolute worst.
Big Boi & Andre used their individual CD titles as the names of street gangs in this send-up of "West Side Story", among other things. Andre chews up the scenery as he sings, but central casting really blew it by not getting former NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy (now with ABC/ESPN) to play the school principal. He'd have been perfect in the fight scene. However, whatever the boys' intentions were for the girl they're both interested in, Katt Williams comes along and makes off with the maiden fair. As silly as it sounds.
Unfortunately, Outkast has slipped well past the radar since. Andre's been busy making movies and commercials (he did a couple of ads for Gillette), and developed the short-lived cartoon, Class of 3000, for Cartoon Network, which didn't give the show a fair enough chance to succeed.
Anyway, here's "Roses", from Outkast's VEVO channel:
2 comments:
I think it being badly choreographed was part of the act - after all - it's a school production, which are notoriously badly staged.
Was that Paula Abdul as the cringing choreographer??? That would make this a double joke!
I don't think so. I would've said something if that was Paula.
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