Desperately seeking Big Boi at the Jones

Listening to rumors is never a good idea. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This little bit of life advice is especially true when it comes to celebrity appearances. Upon word that OutKast’s Big Boi — the less sartorially experimental but equally talented yin to André 3000’s yang — would be performing at the Jones Pool Friday night, I headed over to the rooftop lounge giddy with excitement.

“Which songs from his long-awaited solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot, would he perform?” I wondered, stepping into a packed elevator. “Would it be the effervescent and P-Funk inflected single ‘Shutterbug’?” I pondered as I waited in a line that stretched outside and onto the lounge’s rooftop lawn.