Music Video
The video for "Ms. Jackson", directed by F. Gary Gray, features the duo in an old house. Big Boi is cleaning a car, and André 3000 is making home improvements. The house is overrun with pets, mostly dogs, two cats, a snapping turtle, and an owl that—at times—seem to contribute to the song. Through camera effects, the pets are made to nod their heads to the song.
It begins to rain, spoiling Big Boi's hard work. The light rain rapidly turns into a storm; lightning strikes the car and it explodes. Meanwhile, André attempts to keep the house, which has a roof littered with leaks, dry with the use of buckets. Big Boi attempts to climb the roof and fix the holes in the rain.
The lights go out in the house, creating yet another problem for André, who runs about trying to fix it. Big Boi, in a yellow raincoat, is on top of the roof and getting considerably more annoyed with his inability to complete the repairs.
The lights eventually return. Big Boi climbs down and joins André, helping with the rainwater. Following this, the storm clears almost instantly. The two stare up through a ceiling hole torn open by the storm, at the bright blue sky and shining sun.
The video works as a possible metaphor for the duo's "stormy" relationships with the mothers of their children and their families (themes expressed by the duo in the song). The storm theme is alluded to in the song, particularly by André 3000: "Me and your daughter got a special thing going on/You say it's puppy love, we say it's full grown/Hope that we feel this, feel this way forever/You can plan a pretty picnic, but you can't predict the weather, Ms. Jackson."
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