# Speakerboxx/The Love Below-- Has this ever been done before? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638 "2003-12-03T03:50:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/1 "2003-12-03T03:50:03Z")
These are two solo albums packaged as a double disc from a group (Outkast). Will there be problems? I can see a potential one with Andre’s Hey Ya taking off. What if Big Boi isn’t as successful? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/2 "2003-12-03T03:57:02Z")
Oops. Wrong forum. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/3 "2003-12-03T03:57:20Z")
That’d be too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/4 "2003-12-03T04:45:47Z")
Having moved this puppy on over to the société du café, I will add that I don’t see what problem could be caused by half of the double album being more successful than the other half. Or are you thinking of Tupac Shakur vs. Notorious BIG level problems? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/5 "2003-12-03T05:31:44Z")
So far all the radio stations here in Miami (as well as MTV, MTV2, and BET) are playing the hell out of Big Boi’s “I Love The Way You Move,” but I’m not hearing Andre’s “Hey Ya” get much airplay at all. It’s clear they wanted to move in different musical directions without actually breaking up, so I doubt this’ll cause a rift between them either way. Besides, it’s not like you can choose to buy one album or another. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/6 "2003-12-03T05:57:07Z")
While around here in Connecticut, I hear “Hey Ya” constantly on the pop/top 40 station, and the “I Love the Way You Move” is only on the R&B station. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/7 "2003-12-03T09:10:58Z")
Didn’t KISS do it first? With four solo albums, no less. And their version of “Hey Ya!” is a lot better, if you ask me. Shake it like a polaroid picture! ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/8 "2003-12-03T10:30:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Will there be problems? I can see a potential one with Andre’s Hey Ya taking off. What if Big Boi isn’t as successful? \*\* Read an interview recently from Dre3k and he stated that this was his last rap album, and that he wanted to go study music and that (paraphrasing) “next time you saw him, he’s going to be in a band”. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/9 "2003-12-03T14:04:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\*Read an interview recently from Dre3k and he stated that this was his last rap album, and that he wanted to go study music and that (paraphrasing) “next time you saw him, he’s going to be in a band”. \*\* I hope it works out better for him than when Billy Joel decided to forsake Pop and compose only classical music. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/10 "2003-12-03T15:08:19Z")
Well there are a lot of benefits to doing it this way. Since they’ve packaged it as an Outkast CD, neither of them will have to feel shitty seeing the other’s do better. If this CD won a grammy, “Outcast” would win, and so neither one of them would be left behind. They get to market it as Outkast and keep it in the Outkast slot at the record store, and the price is lower than they would have been as two individual packages, so that’s cool for me, the person with the one CD a month rule. For some reason though, I can picture them coming out as seperate packages later and this being the special edition. I will say one thing. I got this CD and it had a little insert under the shrinkwrap to say the title since the CD artwork doesn’t have the title on it. Normally these inserts are just laid over the cd case and then shrinkwraped in place, but this one was gooped on with that goopy glue that’s supposed to pull right off except for some reason, the glue did not pull off the CD case. So I have a double CD that has this stupid snotty glue stuck all over it and lint from all over the world has flown in special just to stick to it already. I’d swap it for another CD case but it’s a double and I don’t have one. So nuts to that. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/11 "2003-12-03T15:48:46Z")
I’ve been told that WD-40 gets that right off, **pokey** , although I’ve never tried it. Not really the same thing at all, but CCR’s last studio album, Mardi Gras, went in a similar direction. Previously, all CCR’s original songs (with maybe one of two early exceptions) were written by John Fogerty, who was also the lead vocalist. Prior to Mardi Gras, Cosmo Clifford and Stu Cook wanted a greater hand in creating the band’s sound (and Tom Fogerty left the band for this reason). So John said Cook and Clifford should each write a couple songs of their own – and sing lead. While Mardi Gras is a very different album from CCR’s other work (and a lot of people don’t like it), I think it’s very interesting (and Clifford & Cook’s Need Someone to Hold is a very, very touching song). –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/12 "2003-12-03T16:06:14Z")
The Melvins aped Kiss with three solo albums. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/13 "2003-12-03T16:59:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\*Read an interview recently from Dre3k and he stated that this was his last rap album, and that he wanted to go study music and that (paraphrasing) “next time you saw him, he’s going to be in a band”. \*\* Haven’t you seen the video? He can already like 5 instruments! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/14 "2003-12-03T17:12:46Z")
Did the members of Kiss do 4 solo albums or was it a Kiss quadruple disc-- sold as a Kiss album? (Same thing with the Melvins) ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/15 "2003-12-05T15:31:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Did the members of Kiss do 4 solo albums or was it a Kiss quadruple disc-- sold as a Kiss album? (Same thing with the Melvins) \*\* The Kiss albums were four separate solo albums, not a Kiss Box Set. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/16 "2003-12-05T17:01:09Z")
“I Like the Way You Move” and “Hey Ya!” are getting about equal airplay here, but it will be interesting to watch what happens once those two singles have been worn out. I wonder if the other songs that get played will be drawn equally from _Speakerboxx_ and _The Love Below_, or if one will come out on top. Personally, I am completely in LOVE with _The Love Below_, to the point of listening to it non-stop all day at work (I love headphones). Like **pokey** said, this is still an Outkast album, even though it’s split, so I don’t see the potential for warring factions of Outkast. This was just a completely great way to let Andre 3000 and Big Boi explore their own musical styles without being hampered by the other. I mean, when they work together, they’re phenomenal, but it’s neat hearing from them separately, too. I’m assuming they’ll be back to recording together again for the next album. We’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speakerboxx-the-love-below-has-this-ever-been-done-before/216638/17 "2003-12-06T13:57:49Z")
We should remember, too, that though they were billed as two single albums, each contributes to the other half. Some of the best songs on _Speakerboxxx_ are produced by Andre, and Big Boi has a few raps on _The Love Below_, which really adds to the sound.