Roses (Outkast song)

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Roses
OutKast
publication May 25, 2004
length 6:09
Genre (s) Hip-hop , R&B
text A. Benjamin
music A. Benjamin
album Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Roses
  DE 21st 2004 (12 weeks)
  AT 18th 2004 (21 weeks)
  CH 65 2004 (12 weeks)
  UK 4th 05/25/2004 (9 weeks)
  US 9 05/25/2004 (21 weeks)

Roses is a song by the American rap duo OutKast .

Content and success

In the song, Andre Benjamin attacks a young woman named Caroline who thinks she is always fine, which is not the case. Although Roses could not repeat the success of the two previous singles, it nonetheless became a top 10 hit in Australia , Canada , the United Kingdom and the United States .

Music video

The content of the video is reminiscent of the musical West Side Story . An unknown person searches the Stankonia yearbook and at some point finds a photo of Carolina Jones (played by April Clark). Then it is shown how Caroline. Big Boi appears next . He gives her a piece of paper that asks if she is going with him on Valentine's Day. But instead of simply ticking “Yes” or “No”, she writes down “Maybe”. Big Boi is frustrated, leaves Caroline and calls his Speakerboxxx gang over.

The scenario then changes to a stage in a school where an older woman plays the piano at the beginning. Then André 3000 appears, who sings the song with his "The Love Below crew".

Meanwhile, the Speakerboxxx crew begins vandalizing and smashing mailboxes. When Big Boi finally shows up at school, there is a big argument because the Speakerboxxx crew wants to steal the gig.

In the end, another young man succeeds, Caroline's heart with a rose and the words “Alright, now you be here with the Speakerboxes and the Love Ahead, or you can get with the Katt and some bread. Huh, what do you think? Shall we go? Moving ”to conquer. He thinks she should look back one more time and leave everything behind, whatever she does.

In the end, the person on the yearbook fell asleep.

Style and instrumentation

Roses is stylistically classifiable in hip-hop, but the soul and R&B influences - as with other songs on The Love Below - cannot be ignored.

At over six minutes in length, Roses is the longest song on the album; not just on Andre's side, but on the whole album.

literature

  • “Roses really smell like poo-poo,” he coos on 'Roses', a singalong duet with Big Boi and one of the saner moments of 'The Love Below'. In: NME ( nme.com )
  • and “Roses,” a tempered R&B love song with a Frank Zappa-like hook (“I know you like to think your shit don't stink / But lean a little closer / See that roses really smell like poo-poo”) In : Spin . ( spin.com description of the song).

Web links

Individual evidence

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