HOLY CALAMITY this is superb (White People: Parental Advisory - Handsome Boy Modeling School)

Member Name: hulahoop

Product:	White People: Parental Advisory - Handsome Boy Modeling School
Date:	16/09/00 (75 review reads)
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Advantages: Hip hop at its bbbbest

Disadvantages: I am a male model not a male prostitute

The debut album 'So .... How's your girl?' by two artists, brought about a collaboration between Prince Paul and Dan Nakamura, often described as the most innovative hip-hop producers.

You will not be able to listen to this without getting the songs in your head for a long time. I'm not a particular hip-hop fan, but I love this album. I came to it having heard the sublime track featuring Roisin from Moloko, 'The Truth'. This still remains one of the best songs I have heard all year, with a vaguely melancholy but dramatic piano drenched melody, and Roisins amazing voice. This album uses the theme of the modelling school throughout, with two main tracks dedicated to it, 'Look At This Face' and 'Modelling sucks'. Both sample kitsch voices of young men from TV that can only come from 50s American sitcoms. It reminds me a lot of 'Loaded' by Primal Scream, in that respect, but the combination of Beethoven and a thumping beat in the background is very different, amusing and interesting.

I think the reason I love this album so much is that it reaches so many different levels. You don't have to be "in the hood", so to speak, to know what its all about. It features many, probably famous (I am somewhat naive in this field), artists, particularly (whom I have heard of, thanks!) DJ Shadow. It is imaginative and experimental, but also very creative.

The artists create excellent music, and at the same time never take themselves too seriously. There are different 'characters' within the album, for instance, the Father, who features in the background of some songs, but arises at the end to exclaim things like 'Thanks to Handsome Boy Modelling School I am the best runway model in the whole of the Balkans' and 'If it wasn't for Handsome Boy Modelling school I would still have $60' and 'Go to Handsome Boy Modelling school -you won't be sorry for long', in
a rather dubious accent.

Handsome Boy Modelling School was the best £13.99 I ever spent. If it wasn't for Handsome Boy Modelling school I would still have £13.99.
Go and buy it, it's a must for any appreciator of music.

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