[Relleno] Roses

Sé que poner letras de canciones es una de las formas más ruines de hacer un post shorisho, pero espero que me perdonen vuecelencias por la calidad de la música que escucharán y el vídeo que verán if you dare to.

Yo cuando me obsesiono con una canción (o varias) no hay quien me suelte. Ahora mismo el top five de mi MediaMonkey es:

• Hey ya - Outkast
• Imitation of life - R.E.M.
• Personal Jesus - Johny Cash
• Roses - Outkast
• Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Cada una de estas está absolutamente recomendada por sí misma, evidentemente (son las únicas que tienen cinco estrellas). Pero yo insisto en Outkast y en Roses.

Outkast es (todavía) un dúo de hip hop (en principio), formado por André Benjamin aka André 3000 y Antwan Patton aka Big Boi. Poco nos interesa su historia (para eso está la Santa Sede del saber). Big Boi es un rapero clásico y André 3000 es un tipo con mucho talento que gusta de vestir raro y hacer grandes canciones.

El último (previsiblemente en todos los sentidos) álbum de Outkast consta de dos discos distintos separados, uno de Big Boi, llamado Speakerboxx, y otro de André3000, llamado The Love Below. Pero a lo que iba: a una canción de The Love Below llamada Roses, que es grandiosamente buena.

Letra:

[Verse One - Andre 3000]
Caroline! Caroline!
All the guys would say she's mighty fine
But mighty fine only got you somewhere half the time
And the other half either got you cursed out, or coming up short
Yeah, now dig this, even though (even though)
You'd need a golden calculator to divide (to divide)
The time it took to look inside and realize that
Real guys go for real down to Mars girls, yeah!

[Chorus- Repeat 2x]
I know you'd like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like poo-poo-poo
Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-poo

[Verse Two - Andre 3000]
Caroline! See she's the reason for the word "bitch" (bitch)
I hope she's speeding on the way to the club
Trying to hurry up to get to some
Baller or singer or somebody like that
And try to put on her makeup in the mirror
And crash, crash, crash.. into a ditch! (Just Playing!)
She needs a golden calculator to divide (to divide)
The time it took to look inside and realize that
Real guys go for real down to Mars girls, yeah!

[Chorus- Repeat 2x]
I know you'd like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like poo-poo-poo
Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-poo

[Verse Three - Big Boi]
Well she's got a hotty body, but her attitude is potty
When I met her at a party she was hardly acting naughty
I said "Would you call me?"
She said "Pardon me, are you ballin'?"
I said "Darling, you sound like a prostitute pursing"
Oh so you're one them freaks, get geeked at the sight of ATM receipts
But game been peeped, dropping names she's weak
Trickin' off this bitch is lost
Must take me for a geek a quick way to eat
A neat place sleep, a rent-a-car for a week, a trick for a treat
Now go on the raw sex, my AIDS test is flawless
Regardless, we don't want to get involved with no lawyers
And judges just to hold grudges in a courtroom
I wanna see ya support bra not support you!

[Chorus- Repeat 4x]
I know you'd like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like poo-poo-poo
Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-poo

[Repeat 2x]
Better come back down to Mars
Girl, quit chasin' cars
What happens when the dough get so low
Bitch, you ain't that fine
No way.. no way.. no way

[Repeat 2x]
Crazy bitch (repeated in background)
Bitch, stupid ass bitch
Old punk ass bitch, old dumbass bitch
A bitch's bitch, just a bitch

Algunos enlaces:

Areslink para la canción en mp3
Areslink para el vídeo en mpg (62 MB)

Y tutubo:

Como veis, un vídeo genial por todos los aspectos.

Nota: dos puntos a quien proporcione una traducción convincente del rap de Big Boi, un punto menos a quien diga "está bien" a secas. ¡Entusiasmo, leche! (Guybrush, estás a tiempo de arrepentirte).

A pasarlo bien.

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