for a while i heard that as "i was SUPERTHUG but now i'm SUPER STRONG" which would've been a kinda neat neptunes reference but oh well
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
fauntleroy
i underrated this album all year
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 January 2011 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
it is at least my #2 some days my #1
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm backtracking and listening to Wanderland for the first time and I mostly like it so far. I would say Kelis has my idea of a classic R&B sound than most relatively recent R&B singers I've heard. Also, I'm kind of surprised this stuff doesn't sound familiar, but I guess it's because she wasn't that big in the U.S. (and I haven't been going out of my way to hear R&B, and apparently not spending times in places where I might happen to hear it anyway).
(Anyone uninterested in my impressions of R&B singers is free to ignore them.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 4 February 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
That album wasn't even released in the US.
― The Reverend, Friday, 4 February 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
That probably didn't help.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 4 February 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
well this is completely not what i was expecting from her
http://soundcloud.com/kelis-fans/kelis-call-on-me
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
i have to listen a few times more but instareaction is: YES
the horns, that bassline...
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
this is erasing all of those bad memories of "Bossy"
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Love that song!
― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
(Bossy)
I... do not
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
did you ever hear the switch remix of it, dan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81WLcAtLVdk
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
nope
this is okay
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
loving this
produced by Dave Sitek apparently!
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really have any sort of handle on sitek's sound and his wiki discography isn't illuminating me
this song though, so good so good so good
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
I associate him with making guitars sound fantastic (even when boring bands are involved) but I've no idea how he would approach a Kelis track. Not heard this one yet.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
oh it's called "jerk ribs" not "call on me"
http://soundcloud.com/kelis/jerk-ribs
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
this song is really damn good
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 April 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds kind of Dear Science
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
LOVE IT.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
I wish her vocal and the melody was a little bit more...something. The track itself is a total jam, though.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
You know when Beyonce said she was being influenced by Fela Kuti? The arrangement here is kinda what I imagined.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this is for real
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Song is great. Horns are straight off a Tony Allen album from the '70s. Would love to hear a whole album like this.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
feeling this tbh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
like this and...it kinda reminds me of the solange stuff from last yr
― monotony, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
I see the resemblance definitely but I'm liking this a lot more.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
I was so put off by "Losing You" I never checked out the other new Solange stuff :/
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
Losing You's b-side was fantastic. Better than the rest of the ep.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
(I'd forgotten the name. It's "Sleep in the Park".)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol, i've seen people elsewhere react to this with "she's copying solange!!!!" as though both of them weren't harking back to and drawing on much older forms of soul, afrobeat etc
(and as though kelis hasn't just written an effortlessly better song)
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 07:52 (eleven years ago) link
Crucially, Kelis doesn't feel like she's using drums as a strainer-filter for all the messy emotion of R&B.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think she's copied her, merely that they appear to be mining similar territory. fan of both ftr.
― monotony, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
not feeling
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
Me neither. The horns are an annoyance.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
Just pulled out wanderland again. Haven't listened to it in years and it drives me nuts that they've yanked all the stuff from it from youtube on copyright grounds, which is insane because its like you didn't even release the album in the states! why won't you just let people hear it!
start-to-finish one of my favorite albums still. other albums and artists probably have better individual tracks. but it has a consistency of vision and an overall structure that just knocks me out. Also this is probably my favorite period of neptunes productions. another buried kelis/neptunes classic circa about the same period is Royce Da 5'9"'s Make This Run. love how the production feels looped and regular and super-electronic but simultaneously sort of subtly evolves over the course of the tracks with a subtly organic feel. its like it keeps time with my breathing. and the imagery with the wings is just next level.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
the intro on junkie is so playful.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
the futurism/conscious stuff in little suzie especially, its like the direct predecessor to janelle monae. i wonder how different kelis' career could have been if this was a hit in the states.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
new song is strong imo, i'm into the production.
― shit tie (Jordan), Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit i never heard the young fresh so solid remix before! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wiFB3B8qyY
it's a mess, but it's also totally great.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Friday, 3 May 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
I just heard the last part of a great interview w/ Kelis on the broadcast of the "BBC World Service" (for either March 4 or 5, I would guess)
anyone know where I can find the rest of it? google is no help.
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:44 (ten years ago) link
One of these, maybe? Kelis seems to have been on BBC Radio a lot in the past couple of days.http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/iplayer/?q=kelis
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
kelis flesh tone is insanely underrated
21st century/fourth of july are all time
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 07:19 (six years ago) link
22nd century **
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 07:21 (six years ago) link
otm
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
I did not remember that Ned didn't like Kelis
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
Playing 3 shows in Victoria soon, sounds amazing
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 26 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
felt sad at seeing her judge that awful choir competition thing on the BBC (since cancelled?) but hey gotta pay the bills
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 26 January 2018 10:57 (six years ago) link
icymi https://www.thefader.com/2019/06/05/kelis-neptunes-produced-record-wanderland-is-finally-streaming
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link