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nick, see: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18295

(producers allegedly include timbaland, diddy, dame grease, r saadiq and dallas austin)(no i don't know who all of those people are either)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link

I think people would like Wanderland more if it wasn't released in the midst of lots of other Neptunes stuff. They were using a lot of similar tricks (swoony soul, minimal synth-rave etc.) elsewhere, such that while Wanderland is as good as anything else they were doing it didn't sound as out-of-nowhere as Kaleidoscope (and indeed Kaleidoscope still sounds out-of-nowhere due to its sugary maximalist production).

I think "Popular Thug" (original) is her finest moment though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

dame grease is a gothy dmx/ruff ryders beatmaker, r saadiq was in tony toni tone and does nu soul stuff now, dallas austin is an rnb dude who did pink and tlc and monica stuff

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:31 (twenty years ago) link

I initially thought Dame Grease was a woman, adopting a Judi Dench-style name.

― Nick H, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

Ooh, new Kelis album out in July, name escapes me at the moment.

I heard new single 'Bossy' yesterday which hasn't stuck in my head, but I need to give it a few more plays.

My girlfriend showed me a feature of her in Elle magazine and she appeared to be sporting a Supremes-like straight bob haircut too.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

name of album will be kelis was here

'bossy' is initially underwhelming - it's VERY minimal, though when i listened back to tasty at the weekend i realised that she was playing with sparse plinky-plonky 808 sounds on quite a few of the album tracks there. i think it's good, and it makes me very intrigued to hear what she'll be up to on the album, but it's an odd choice of single. i heard it last year and thought it was just an unreleased demo like 'running mate' - i didn't think it had the oomph to be a lead single!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

she's on posters all over london right now for her live date. she looks v muscly in them.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

also wtf am i on about upthread, both kaleidoscope and wanderland are start-to-finish gold.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

once the bassline & the extra prince of persia plinking come in it aint that minimal after all - it does have like nothing under her on the chorus tho. i was really looking forward to hearing too $hort submit to kelis but he just wont ever! instead he bosses her around to tell other dudes shes bossy, like hes the kingpin responsible for her bossiness! whatever too short!

― karri miback (cruisy), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bossy" is awesome.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

agreed

I knew short dog wasn't goin out like that though, dream on

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

this song is garbage

― and what (ooo), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

'Help Me', the Timo Maas track, is super dope.

― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

HOW SURPRISING THAT ETHAN DOESN'T LIKE THIS SONG

― Dan (Although This Time I Agree With Him, Heh) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i played this out the other day and it sounds a lot better on a big system, the bassline really comes into its own. it reminds me slightly of 'erotic discourse' of all things!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

I'M BOSSY!

has this grown on anyone else as much as it has me? really badly want to hear the new album...

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

whenever the woman puts on lipgloss i sing 'I'M GLOSSY'

she hates it

― Mike Hooter (jaxon), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

You should extend that to dental floss.

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i was really looking forward to hearing too $hort submit to kelis but he just wont ever! instead he bosses her around to tell other dudes shes bossy, like hes the kingpin responsible for her bossiness! whatever too short!

i hear this the opposite -- he's too smart to tangle with her, so the best he can do is be her hype man.

great song. sexy video.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i have been listening to this nigh on constantly since i stole it last night. i like how minimal and unhurried it is, it makes it seem opulent and lazy which fits lyrically. i love how much fun a track can be just with some 808 beats and a bit of good synth work. i haven't liked a pop song this much in a very long time...

― Andrew Harrison (andrewtothemax), Thursday, 3 August 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I HATE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!

AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bossy" = WORST. SONG. EVAR.

Just needed to be said.

― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 3 August 2006 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

WRONG

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.fillerx.com/files/1154437943-keliswashere.jpg

Has anyone heard this? It sucks she's not working with the Neptunes anymore...

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 3 August 2006 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

this cover sucks.

― Grand (grand), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link

A lot of it is produced by WILL.I.AM :( :( :(

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think 'bossy' is that bad, and it's definitely a grower, but i worry for the album if this is considered lead single material.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Like U is nice, lots of big opera samples...

And I think Bossy has a lot in common with Milkshake, with that stupid ringtone friendly repetitious melody. To be honest I'm glad the Neptune's aren't producing the album, maybe its because the Wanderland album bombed considering how big the singles where.. what I've heard sounds better for the lack of there trademark beat shuffle which was *Everywhere* when Wanderland came out..

― jk_ (jk@gabba), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

That's an awful cover.

Not heard "Bossy" at all, but still enjoy "Milkshake" and "Trick Me" on occaision.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the cover! it's better than the tasty one.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I think I dislike the name more than the cover necessarily. And yes, Tasty was another terrible cover.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:16 (seventeen years ago) link

it wasn't terrible, just boring and identikit. she was still pretty on it. i really like the kelis was here title, though if the album is disappointing the past tense will be unfortunate.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link

everyone seems to be into this 30s chic.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

The promo shots for the album have her in a bunch of sub-Agent Provocateur poses. HOT.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

A lot of it is produced by WILL.I.AM :( :( :(
-- Konal Doddz (stevem7...), August 3rd, 2006.

He's actually done some pretty good production work lately.

I still like bossy. Thats Shondrae, right?

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Rodney is almost OTM; it's not the worst song ever but WOW do I never, ever, ever want to hear it again.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure you can already hear "Bossy" by pressing the red button on any Casio keyboard...

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

the braxe/falke bossy remix (well, one of them) of bossy is TOTALLY BOSS. kicks the original's ass.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

HEL-lo...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

braxe/falke rmx!!!!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

s1ocki very otm. the only thing i'm really crazy about the original is the sopranos quote. and as long as superfine kelis is on her album covers ain't none of them going to be 'awful'.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but that cover does work awful hard to separate the words "Kelis" and "superfine" from one another.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Rodney is almost OTM; it's not the worst song ever but WOW do I never, ever, ever want to hear it again.

Rhetoric, dude.

― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the SebastiAn remix much better than the Braxe/Falke remix. And so should you.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

switch remix, people! k-wtf factor, esp the end!

― etc (esskay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Just for the record, it's not an 808. I'm sick of people calling any minimal electro kit an 808!

Also, this song is awful. Kelis has so little charisma, it makes me uncomfortable just to listen to it.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

She says 808 in the song. And she has plenty of charisma (see: almost anything else she's done), which doesn't change the fact that the song is an atrocity.

― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there really any argument about Kelis having charisma?

And (way x-post)she has already produced a slice of genius and it was called Milkshake. I'm amazed that The Lex didn't/hasn't realised this.

And as Rodney says, this doesn't stop the new single being meh at best

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

there's actually TWO different braxe/falke mixes on that 12" (along with the sebastian and switch ones). all pretty good!

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bossy" = WORST. SONG. EVAR.
Just needed to be said.

not while Milkshake exists. what happened to kelis?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:08 (ten months ago) link

Great revive?

― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:08 (ten months ago) link

I don’t know what famous people do.

― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:10 (ten months ago) link

Pondering it too much, that way lies madness.

― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:23 (ten months ago) link

Not that this will stop me.

― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:36 (ten months ago) link

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.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:41 (ten months ago) link

Right, of course.

― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 June 2023 23:42 (ten months ago) link

Guess we might as well actually see a picture.

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

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 9 June 2023 00:26 (ten months ago) link

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