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Kelis kaleidoscope 4shared7/28/2023 The lead off single, Caught Out There, is an angry rant against a lying man, with Kelis commenting on herself as she recalls a relationship that went horribly wrong (climaxing with the shooting of her boyfriend). The album’s three singles made an impressing mark on late the late nineties British charts scoring the Harlem songstress a gold record (100,000 copies) for the island nation. The song’s surprisingly fitting saxophone solo reminds me why they are so in demand these days. ![]() Pharrel lays down some cinematic Glockenspiel, warm strings and lends his voice to a whisper track in the background. Pharrell proves his worth again and again on mid-record ballad Suspended, an eerie exhibition for Kelis’ slightly out there R&B vocals. Like always, the boys behind the chart creates a sound, full of smooth keyboards and sexy break beats, but this time their innovation on the mainstream seems to have the step of a slightly more vintage creature, with everything from Jazz instrumentation to 60’s pop sounds bouncing around inside each ear-tickling melody. What a cute couple they make.Īnd while Pharrell and gang’s catchy, pop infused beats don’t exactly scream Boom Bap like early Nas, there is still a considerable amount of grit in them, especially for a Neptunes record. The album draws an almost obvious comparison to Kelis’ now husband Nas, taking his taste for telling the deep, dark life of a lower class black male and telling it from the point of, well, the wife of a lower class black male. Kaleidoscope was the album that made Kelis huge in the rest of the world, an album full of love, hate, fear and intensity. ![]() But it turns out that Kelis had a fantastic, successful Neptunes produced Neo-Soul meets Club Rap record out four years before she started getting a lot of radio play in the states. That’s what Americans tend to do anyways. Kelis was a gravel voiced goddess that the world just seemed to be ready for.īut when I say the world I just mean the United States. Milkshake was a song that came fast and stayed long, an instantly recognizable tune, and one of the most original recorded about a woman’s “assets”. A song full of sexy lyrics, catchy melodies and the kind of beat that makes a middle school boy get all excited in his pants.
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