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Five years after their rightfully revered debut, So...How's Your Girl?, brainiac producers Prince Paul and Dan the Automator return with Handsome Boy Modeling School's a-little-too-smug sophomore release, White People. Like the title, a good third of the album feels too forced. Another third is fair, but the remainder is stunning -- mostly song-based and mostly nonirreverent. Tim Meadows' "The Ladies Man" character and a bunch of narration from Modeling School Central keeps the Handsome Boy concept going, but it's a concept that could carry one album, not two (also of note: "The Ladies Man"'s appearances are often tacked right onto the end of tracks, making the album more difficult to whittle down to a concise mixtape). Minus Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Casual, the rappers on White People sound too aware of their surroundings, too mannered. The mega-talented Pharrell Williams' contribution to "Class System" could have been carried off by anyone, so that leaves it up to people from the pop and rock realm to really bring it to the table. They do, with solid songs that could exist outside of Handsome Boy's heavy-with-concept world. Expect Jamie Cullum and John Oates' pop-solid "Biggest Mistake" to show up on a Christina Aguilera album sometime soon, while Cat Power's track is so well formed you have to wonder what the reaction will be when a Handsome Boy fan encounters one of her indie, skeletal, and spent early albums. Sounding like Paul Simon for the hoody generation, Jack Johnson's "Breakdown" is a surprising success, but just as surprising is that the genre-hopping, always risk-taking Mike Patton can't find the spark. Bringing reminders of a better track on a better album, "Rock & Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This), Pt. 2" is the album's problem in one song. Jumping from one style to another, the song never digs in like How's Your Girl's "Part 1," since ambition overtakes reason and cleverness overtakes everything. There's a killer EP worth of tracks strewn among the album and more than a few signs that Dan and Paul still got it. Stuck trying to re-create the daring excitement, Handsome Boy Modeling School turn in an album that's half as interesting as their debut, and half as interesting as their guest list.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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David Jolicoeur, ComposerLyricist - Kelvin Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Prince Paul, Engineer - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Engineer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Engineer - Mike Patton, ComposerLyricist - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Engineer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Mixer - Alex kapranos, ComposerLyricist - Barrington Levy, ComposerLyricist - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Mixer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - MARIO CALDATO, Engineer - Teren Jones, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Mixer - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Mixer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - MARIO CALDATO, Engineer - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist - Jack Johnson, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Jonathan Owens, ComposerLyricist - Prince Paul, Engineer - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Engineer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Engineer - Chan Marshall, ComposerLyricist - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Engineer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Mixer - CHESTER BENNINGTON, ComposerLyricist - MIKE SHINODA, ComposerLyricist - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Mixer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Ed Scratch, Engineer - Robert Hall, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Josh Haden, ComposerLyricist - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Engineer - Chino Moreno, ComposerLyricist - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Engineer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Christian Palko, ComposerLyricist - Jaime Meline, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Engineer - Pharrell Williams, ComposerLyricist - Julee Cruise, ComposerLyricist - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Engineer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Andres Titus, ComposerLyricist - Prince Paul, Engineer - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Engineer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Mixer - Jon Debaun, Engineer - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Mixer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Andre Barnes, ComposerLyricist - Cedric Bixler, ComposerLyricist - Robert F. Diggs Jr., ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist - Omar Rodriguez, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Prince Paul, Engineer - John Oates, ComposerLyricist - DAN THE AUTOMATOR, Engineer - Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
Dan Nakamura, ComposerLyricist - Handsome Boy Modeling School, MainArtist - Paul Huston, ComposerLyricist
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
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Five years after their rightfully revered debut, So...How's Your Girl?, brainiac producers Prince Paul and Dan the Automator return with Handsome Boy Modeling School's a-little-too-smug sophomore release, White People. Like the title, a good third of the album feels too forced. Another third is fair, but the remainder is stunning -- mostly song-based and mostly nonirreverent. Tim Meadows' "The Ladies Man" character and a bunch of narration from Modeling School Central keeps the Handsome Boy concept going, but it's a concept that could carry one album, not two (also of note: "The Ladies Man"'s appearances are often tacked right onto the end of tracks, making the album more difficult to whittle down to a concise mixtape). Minus Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Casual, the rappers on White People sound too aware of their surroundings, too mannered. The mega-talented Pharrell Williams' contribution to "Class System" could have been carried off by anyone, so that leaves it up to people from the pop and rock realm to really bring it to the table. They do, with solid songs that could exist outside of Handsome Boy's heavy-with-concept world. Expect Jamie Cullum and John Oates' pop-solid "Biggest Mistake" to show up on a Christina Aguilera album sometime soon, while Cat Power's track is so well formed you have to wonder what the reaction will be when a Handsome Boy fan encounters one of her indie, skeletal, and spent early albums. Sounding like Paul Simon for the hoody generation, Jack Johnson's "Breakdown" is a surprising success, but just as surprising is that the genre-hopping, always risk-taking Mike Patton can't find the spark. Bringing reminders of a better track on a better album, "Rock & Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This), Pt. 2" is the album's problem in one song. Jumping from one style to another, the song never digs in like How's Your Girl's "Part 1," since ambition overtakes reason and cleverness overtakes everything. There's a killer EP worth of tracks strewn among the album and more than a few signs that Dan and Paul still got it. Stuck trying to re-create the daring excitement, Handsome Boy Modeling School turn in an album that's half as interesting as their debut, and half as interesting as their guest list.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:09
- Main artists: Handsome Boy Modeling School
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Tommy Boy Music, LLC
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC 2004 Tommy Boy Music, LLC
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