OutKast duo Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin are sitting in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills picking at pancakes.
August 15, 2006 (Press Release) --
OutKast duo Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin are sitting in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills picking at pancakes. They need to figure out the track listing for their upcoming soundtrack album -- the companion to their long-delayed and eagerly anticipated film ''Idlewild.''
Zomba Label Group president/CEO Barry Weiss, pen in hand, writes out different scenarios. Patton keeps picking at his breakfast. Weiss leans back on the couch and says with a laugh, ''We need to figure this out! We need this album to be done!'' Patton and Benjamin smile. Patton nods, ''We know. We're getting there.''
Patton, aka Big Boi, and Benjamin, aka Andre 3000, are perfectionists as much as they are innovators. ''Idlewild'' would have been released last year if the music had been done.
''Because the album had been bumped, the movie has been bumped,'' Weiss says. ''It's 100 percent about the music.''
Now, after numerous postponements, OutKast is finally ready -- sort of. They still keep going back in the studio to ''tweak'' some tracks. But come hell or high water, the album will be released Aug. 22, with the film hitting theaters three days later.
''This is probably the first musical that didn't have the music done before it was shot,'' Benjamin says. ''That has been the biggest lesson I've learned in this whole thing. Next time, we'll do the music first.''
OutKast's manager Blue Williams calls the film and album a ''crowning achievement'' for the duo. ''It's an ending of sorts, but it's also a leading-off point for both of them,'' Williams says. ''They have accomplished a lot of things. We've sold more with each album. Now we want to have a No. 1 movie and a No. 1 album. Then the time will be right.''
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Zomba Label Group president/CEO Barry Weiss, pen in hand, writes out different scenarios. Patton keeps picking at his breakfast. Weiss leans back on the couch and says with a laugh, ''We need to figure this out! We need this album to be done!'' Patton and Benjamin smile. Patton nods, ''We know. We're getting there.''
Patton, aka Big Boi, and Benjamin, aka Andre 3000, are perfectionists as much as they are innovators. ''Idlewild'' would have been released last year if the music had been done.
''Because the album had been bumped, the movie has been bumped,'' Weiss says. ''It's 100 percent about the music.''
Now, after numerous postponements, OutKast is finally ready -- sort of. They still keep going back in the studio to ''tweak'' some tracks. But come hell or high water, the album will be released Aug. 22, with the film hitting theaters three days later.
''This is probably the first musical that didn't have the music done before it was shot,'' Benjamin says. ''That has been the biggest lesson I've learned in this whole thing. Next time, we'll do the music first.''
OutKast's manager Blue Williams calls the film and album a ''crowning achievement'' for the duo. ''It's an ending of sorts, but it's also a leading-off point for both of them,'' Williams says. ''They have accomplished a lot of things. We've sold more with each album. Now we want to have a No. 1 movie and a No. 1 album. Then the time will be right.''
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Posted by Tamara Conniff
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