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Fonzworth Bentley Invites Friends Over For Dressing Up, Rapping, Choreography
"Like Lancome lipstick, scarlet/And frankly, I really do care, my dear." Besides entering Fonzworth Bentley in the mini-pantheon of R&B artists who've quoted Rhett Butler (the only other example I can think of is Chic's "You Are Beautiful," from 1983's Believer), "Everybody"—Bentley's new single featuring Sa-Ra, Andre 3000, and Kanye West—is more noticeable for who's on it than what any of them are doing. Sa-Ra have been mining this smooth-synth-funk vein for ages, and it's nice enough but not terribly compelling; ditto Andre's verse (can't win 'em all). Kanye sings the hook, because he is an all-around entertainer, and there is choreography (far better than the Dear Jayne video earlier, although that's not difficult), as well as tuxes and bow ties. Let us boldly predict that It will either sink like a stone or stick around the charts forever, and nothing in between. [Brightcove via kanYe West: Blog]
There's a movie coming out about the WTO protests in Seattle—you know, the ones from eight years ago—and Andre 3000 is apparently going to be in it. If we're lucky, it'll be a Strindberg-style symbolist drama, and Andre will be playing Oppressive Trade Policies. (Woody Harrelson will play Flawed Social Consciousness, and there will be a climactic ballet expressing globalization's unintended negative consequences. Bill Clinton will play himself, but wearing a Bill Clinton mask.) Also, Andre loves pirates. "Pirates, pirates, pirates," he says. [
