Yet, there’s something so enticing about the leading lady of André’s first guest verse, how she is just too good for Three Stacks himself. Where Frank has been matter-washed by the sex, André 3000 is sexless and bereaved.
What is a “Pink Matter” piece without a discussion of André 3000’s hypnotizing guest verses? His first offering, ending with “ Who needs another friend? I need to hold your hand / You ’ d need no other man, we ’ d flee to other lands” stands as a model of how weak men can be in the face of the right woman.
And then the beat shifts, gets funkier, feels as if someone spectacular is about to show off… Frank’s gushy “ oh, oh, oh” and “ you, you, you,” his near squealing, break him down to his essential elements as a creature in heat. Frank’s voice straining and dissolving into the beat as he sings the word “ pleasure” brings the sensation of your eyes rolling into the back of your head to life. The delivery of these two verses is a feature unto itself, too. “ Pleasure over matter,” Frank sings, affirming our idea that sex has not only opened his mind but has eclipsed his thoughts. Hence the second verse trickling into a repetition of the first: “ Cotton candy, Majin Buu, oh, oh, oh, oh / Dim the lights and fall into you, you, you / My God, giving me pleasure.” When Frank asserts that nothing matters then returns to the sex, we get the impression he has been bewitched in the best ways. Hence the fight with Sensei ultimately being moot. His questions border on being conspiratory, but their essence suggests, for lack of a better image, the sex he just had opened his mind. We get this sense from the first lines of the second verse, too, where Frank begins to question the sky and the stars. No longer lost and in need of his teachings, they come to blows, and we get the sense being with an unburdened woman has unlocked something in Frank. For the second verse, we return to Sensei, and we watch as Frank spars with the man.
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