Thursday, March 18, 2010

2003: #6 - "The Way You Move"



(Not the official video - sadly, Outkast and their people join the awful cast of characters who disable embedding of their videos)

"The Way You Move" was another out-of-leftfield move in the idiosyncratic career of Outkast. Not content with being masters of Southern-fried G-Funk, they moved on to Southern-fried, outer-space P-Funk in the late 90's, before assaulting the pop charts in the 2000's with a flurry of ferociously original but fun pop-rap hits. Big Boi's "The Way You Move" was an outlier, even in this bunch - a slow-burning Miami-bass sex-funk song, 808s building up into a groove accented by sassy horns, soulful vocals, and Big Boi's ever-evolving conversational delivery. At the end of the first verse, we're not sure if he's giving it up to a bassy speaker system or to womanly anatomy ("Trunk rattlin’, like two midgets in the back seat wrestlin’"), but either way it's a great image.

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