OutKast, "The Way You Move"

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Someone mentioned salsa. But this isn't "real" salsa, it's salsa filtered through Marvin Gaye ca. I Want You. The horn punches are more monochromatic than Gaye would've used, but that's because of hip-hop's aesthetic of repitition (this is *not* a dig). The vocal is one of the better Gaye pastiches I've heard. What's best to me, though, is the old-school drum pattern and the odd minimal three-note bass line in the first portion, also the way Big Boi has such an enormous rhythmic facility w/o once seeming to exert any effort. "Not clashing/not at all."

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

more monochromatic and, I should add, higher in the mix

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.arista2.com/mp3s/the_way_you_move.mp3 ?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the idea of an "eargasm."

Cool song, indeed. But it's not Flip Flop Rock. Which should just explode in the hip hop world stateside.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The last Outkast thread was hating on it, but I rather like it, though it's my least favorite of the four songs I've heard from the album. It dawned on me when I saw the making of the video thing on BET yesterday how much better Sleepy Brown's voice is than Pharell's. Is P's famousness a case of his being cuter or what?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"eargasm" was the title of a johnnie taylor lp.

the songs i've heard so far sound really good, but they are sort of larks--album tracks. still waiting to hear the epic stormers.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 29 August 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

They sound like larks to me too, an whole albumful of these would suit me plenty.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 29 August 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"an whole"? yes

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 29 August 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just thinking that I will probably like this tune more when it pops up in the middle of the album, but then it came up on my playlist and now I dig it quite it a bit. The singing, the horns, and the pervasive drum machine ticks all work quite well at the end- if you zone out it's lite soul (not a bad thing) but if you listen actively it's like 5 AM Outkast.

― rob geary (rgeary), Saturday, 30 August 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

5 AM = driving home, sun's about to come up, songs with a less overt edge to them suddenly sound brilliant. "No Letting Go" made sense to me this way.

― rob geary (rgeary), Saturday, 30 August 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

nobody thinks the "i like the way you move" part of the song is a rip off of some 70's or 80's song ? i'm pretty sure of it and am talking about it with my gf right now. I have the song in mind but can't remember the title or artist i'm thinking of (at first i thought it was billy ocean but seems not...).
i'm frustrated : help !!

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 22 November 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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