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Electric Circus (album)
''Electric Circus'' is the fifth studio album by rapper Common, released December 10, 2002 on the now-defunct MCA Records. The album was highly anticipated and praised by many critics for its ambitious vision. However, it was not as commercially successful as his previous album, ''Like Water for Chocolate'', selling under 300,000 copies. An eclectic album, ''Electric Circus'' featured fusions of several genres such as hip hop, pop, rock, electronic, and neo soul. "I wasn't feeling hip hop," the rapper remarked. "So my motivation for that album were other genres of music, like Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix. It wasn't hip hop."〔Mobo Awards tenth anniversary brochure, 2006〕 This was Common's second and last album for MCA, and the label's final release prior to its absorption into Geffen Records.
==Music==
Common worked with a large (and eclectic) number of musicians on ''Electric Circus''. Among them were Mary J. Blige (who provided vocals for the album's lead single, ''"Come Close"''), The Neptunes, Lætitia Sadier (of Stereolab), Cee-Lo Green, Bilal and Jill Scott. The music on ''Electric Circus'' challenges the boundaries of the hip hop genre in a similar fashion to The Roots' ''Phrenology'' (2002) and Outkast's ''Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'' (2003). This is especially the case on tracks like the grungy "Electric Wire Hustler Flower" (featuring P.O.D.'s Sonny Sandoval in the chorus), the abstract "Aquarius", and the electronic "New Wave". Erykah Badu joins Common for a duet on ("Jimi Was A Rock Star"), which is a dedication to Jimi Hendrix. The second Neptunes collaboration on the record, the cross-genre "I Got A Right Ta", is a musical departure from the styles of both artists, and features Pharrell singing the hook in a blues-inspired style. A triumphant sounding Common proclaims himself "the only cat in hip hop that can go into a thrift shop, bring that get up to the ghetto and get props". The song was placed on the B-Side of "Come Close".
"Between Me, You & Liberation", in which Common discusses sexual abuse and its effects on a young woman, confronting his homophobia after learning about the sexuality of a longtime friend, and the loss of a relative to cancer, contains themes wholly unusual for a rap song, and is, perhaps, the rapper's most vulnerable moment on record. About "Liberation..." Pop Matters wrote that it's ''"one of those rare occasions when a male hip-hop artist owns up to his investment in some of the genre's more unsavory sexual politics".'' Musically, the song is very downbeat and moody, and features a guest spot from rapper/singer/producer Cee-lo Green (making this the pair's third collaboration after ''One Day It'll All Make Sense'''s "G.O.D.", and ''Like Water For Chocolate'''s "A Song For Assata").
Following ''LWFCs tributes to Fela Kuti, and Assata Shakur, ''Electric Circus'' pays homage to someone altogether more familiar (Jimi Hendrix) on "Jimi Was A Rock Star". The 8 minute-plus song is a duet between Common and his then-girlfriend Erykah Badu, which gradually builds up into its cryptic, chanting finale. This song is Common's first all-singing performance. The center-piece of the album, the epic "Heaven Somewhere", features 6 vocalists who all give insight into what their interpretation of Heaven is. Common's father Lonnie Lynn ends the affair with an introspective look at his ideal place.
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