Well, I guess technically I do buy it, insofar as I did shell out ten bucks plus tax for this record, but Cee-Lo’s lamentations on The Odd Couple don’t exactly strike me as authentic heartbreak of the Blood on the Tracks variety. Thing is, I don’t buy Cee-Lo’s brand of deep, inner anguish. I mean, here we have a record on which a man who once referred to himself as “the soul machine” posits the question of who’s gonna save his soul. “It’s plain to see/That I got a whole lot of pain in me/And it will always remain in me,” he sings in “A Little Better,” The Odd Couple’s closing track, while Danger Mouse’s ambient samples of major and minor chords that make no sense together hum sleepily in the background. Those caught in the precarious position of providing critical analysis of Gnarls Barkley’s sophomore album, The Odd Couple, thus far all seem to agree on one thing: Cee-Lo Green, the poor thing, has a serious case of the gloomies.
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