Kelis - C/D

Losing You's b-side was fantastic. Better than the rest of the ep.

(I'd forgotten the name. It's "Sleep in the Park".)

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)

Crucially, Kelis doesn't feel like she's using drums as a strainer-filter for all the messy emotion of R&B.

i don't think she's copied her, merely that they appear to be mining similar territory. fan of both ftr.

not feeling

Me neither. The horns are an annoyance.

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.

the intro on junkie is so playful.

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.

new song is strong imo, i'm into the production.

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.

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.

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

kelis flesh tone is insanely underrated

21st century/fourth of july are all time

22nd century **

otm

I did not remember that Ned didn't like Kelis

Playing 3 shows in Victoria soon, sounds amazing

felt sad at seeing her judge that awful choir competition thing on the BBC (since cancelled?) but hey gotta pay the bills

icymi https://www.thefader.com/2019/06/05/kelis-neptunes-produced-record-wanderland-is-finally-streaming

classique

this disclosure thing is my dance anthem tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM2oOEmDU3w

oof cringey video tho

solid jam

by all accounts Nas was a terrible husband and his story of their relationship on "Bye Baby" is probably a load of bullshit, but this image stuck with me:

You screaming at the racist cops in Miami was probably
The highlight of my life

https://pitchfork.com/news/kelis-says-she-wasnt-told-beyonce-sampled-her-on-renaissance/

“Milkshake” is interpolated on Beyonce's “Energy.” When she heard the song was sampled, Kelis likened it to “theft.” She is not listed as one of the producers, composers, or lyricists on the sampled song and has previously discussed the terms of her early contract.

It's the delivery of the lines "On stage, rockin', I'm star crazy, Cocoa flow like 1980's" using the flow from the Milkshake hook that's in question? used to be a commonplace and benign thing to make references like that

maybe I'm not hearing it right

Kelis thinks she should have gotten a songwriting credit for "Milkshake" long ago, but acknowledges she signed a contract then. So since there's a credit on the B album to the Neptunes for the "interpolation" she thinks she should have been credited as well. But yeah that used to be commonplace to make melodic references like that.

Aah now I get it, thx

So she's dating Bill Murray. Huh.

Um…

Great revive?

I don’t know what famous people do.

Pondering it too much, that way lies madness.

Not that this will stop me.

I don't have any actual opinion about Kelis dating Bill Murray, I just thought it was interesting in a "pictures of famous people you wouldn't expect together" way.

Right, of course.

Guess we might as well actually see a picture.

https://consequence.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Kelis-and-Bill-Murray.jpeg