Sex In The Kitchen and Trapped In The Closet are the first R Kelly songs I have heard since She Got That Vibe. Is there any album that lives up to these, or should I just seek out whatever has Ignition on (the D@rnie11e and Bonnie P. Billy versions were great)? (Or are his albums too choked with non-ridiculous slow jams and Jesus joints, and I should just sit back and wait for a best-of?)
― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 4 June 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 4 June 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej., Saturday, 4 June 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
oh my god, so the entertaining R. Kelly line is not logical! Who would have thought? My point remains - the leg cramp sequence is the finest dramatic moment in the last fifty years of radioplay. NOT SINCE WAR OF THE WORLDS, etc. -- miccio (anthonyisrigh...), June 4th, 2005.
erm yeah to clarify, in context i (simonides) wasnt hating on the r's logic or the leg cramp line, which i think is fuckin fantastic. the fact that r describes his graphic sex scene in the same absurdist, melodramatic, counterlogical, gratuitously digressing way as he talks about everything else is amazing.
which makes part 4 easily way better than part 3, a lil better than part 2, and approaching the level of genius of part 1. chapter 5 is a bit of a letdown just because it's so rushed, but i'll be stunned if there isn't some sort of remix/extended chapters shit on the bonus disc or something...right? please?
― swvl (vozick), Saturday, 4 June 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 4 June 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Heh. I'm just bitter I was wrong about it not being a dream. But that whole sequence was still pretty insipid for a play by play even for him. Are they going to have a sequence in the video where his dick goes soft upon finding the rubber in the covers?
Anyhoo, I think 2 > 1 > 3 > 5 > 4
― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 4 June 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej., Saturday, 4 June 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
internet innit! really, I haven't encountered a Kelly song on Australian radio or telly since 1992. I just saw/heard Hard Knock Life by Jay-Z for the first time five minutes ago, too.
― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 4 June 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
with the understanding that all five rank among the most beautiful things I will see in pop culture this year.
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, the beeps in part 5 are great.
― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Saturday, 4 June 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Saturday, 4 June 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Saturday, 4 June 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej., Saturday, 4 June 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmy_tango, Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, I would have also preferred that the entire suite take place in the closet.
― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Monday, 6 June 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― La Monte (La Monte), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― La Monte (La Monte), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
he said "ho, I should've knownthat you would go and do some bogus shit up in my house
I misheard "bog shit up in my house" last night as shtuppin' in my house, and I thought it was bizarre that R. was using a yiddishism, till I realized it was the radio edit.
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I guess this isn't a methaphor, then?
Speculation: Roxanne's a man!
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Candicissima (candicissima), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
“You play with your dick so much that your balls are red for the next five days,” he said. “Tina takes you down to the level of basically our roots as men — the animalistic part of yourself. You kind of lose your head and the next thing you know you are having sex for as many hours as you can with as many people as you can.”
Hmm.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
"then she said Roxanne is a friend of mine who knows this guy named ChuckChuck's cool with this guy named Rufus and I'm sitting there like what the fuck!"
I'd like to think he picked the name Chuck just to make that rhyme work later on.
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
But yeah, they're still gripping as hell.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000053B.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004WIZA.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000050T.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001VOHH0.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg
Which ONE is most going to satisfy a listener enraptured by the ridiculous drama of the Trapped In The Closet saga?
*(also the Public Announcement one, but fuck that)
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 10 June 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 10 June 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 10 June 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm so distracted by the guy who plays Rufus because he's such a hybrid of Fonzworth Bentley and that guy from the Jamie Foxx show. I'm also glad that the "I'm going to shoot you" thing as Rufus goes to open up the door at the end looks as ridiculous as it sounds.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 18 June 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
#10. R. Kelly is undeniably a patriot.
yes. i love this man.
― WHUTWHUTWHUT, Saturday, 18 June 2005 02:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link
I think even an "ironic" indie cover would be preferable to this.
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
"unintentionally". bah.
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link