André 3000’s Solo Album Is a Breath of Fresh Air

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( album review [André 3000’s Solo Album Is a Breath of Fresh Air]( New Blue Sun isn’t the esteemed return to form rap fans hoped for. It’s something more. Photo: Kai Regan Since the 1993 release of [OutKast](’s debut single, “Player’s Ball,” André 3000 has cultivated a powerful distaste for easy wins. Resistance was always core to the Georgia duo, and their wide web of interests yielded dense, unpredictable American pop music, cementing his and Big Boi’s reputation as one of the most gifted songwriting teams in any musical tradition. André in particular seemed to delight in scrambling normies’ circuits. While naming influences during a 2000 Rolling Stone profile, he gushed about “the people who take whatever music they doing so far to the left of what was going on. Put on any album from goddamned 1966 and put on a Sly Stone album — it sounds very different. P-Funk from any time sounds different. Those are the people that inspired us to blow niggas’ minds.” Across later OutKast works, André seemed driven by an appetite for this interdisciplinary respect, as a gritty meta-commentary on fame, rap clichés, and industry politics guiding “Ova da Wudz” and “Return of the ‘G’” took a back seat to the restless experimentation in The Love Below. [read more]( The Latest TV Recaps • Fargo: [The Disappearance of Dot Lyon (Episode 1)](, [A Few Hard Men (Episode 2)](, • The Buccaneers: [Two Guys, a Girl, and a Bonfire]( • Squid Game: The Challenge: [The Ol’ Golden Ticket (Episode 1)](, [I Like the Chaos of Their Game (Episode 2)]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [White Empathy Gets You Only So Far in Killers of the Flower Moon Lily Gladstone gives a staggering performance as Mollie, but Martin Scorsese’s script is too stuck at the pitch of awe to interrogate her humanity.]( [The Black Friday Streaming Deals You Should Know About Subscription prices go down for once.]( By Savannah Salazar [Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Heartbreaking Monster Hovers Between This World and the Next There might be no better film about the indisputable fact that we never really know what someone else is going through.]( By Bilge Ebiri [Is Taika Waititi Even Trying Anymore? The New Zealand filmmaker’s new film, Next Goal Wins, is so sloppily made that it might make you wonder why he even bothered.]( [Maestro Is a Masterful Reconstruction That Remains Just That The Leonard Bernstein biopic somehow proves that Bradley Cooper is a director of genuine vision, even though it’s not a particularly successful movie.]( By Bilge Ebiri [5 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month Barbra Streisand remembers everything in her new memoir, while Megan Fox shares her poetry.]( By Marshall Heyman [Travis Kelce’s ‘Hallarious’ Old Tweets Were His ‘Diary’ So we sorted them as Taylor Swift’s diaries (a.k.a. her albums).]( By Jennifer Zhan [A Blonde Anne Hathaway Makes Smoking Look Cool Wait, can we bum a cig?]( By Alejandra Gularte [Spiders, Snakes, and Trolls: It’s a Very MFL Thanksgiving Box-office flops, Paul Giammati trivia, and the first-ever MFL mid-season bonus prize.]( By Joe Reid [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 21-Across, Four Letters: New Girl guest star Olivia. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved