R. Kelly - "Trapped In The Closet"

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (680 of them)

yeah, that's reasonable. "November Rain" is a classic too. but video-wise, not as good as Slash soloing in front of a church in the middle of nowhere is, Slash soloing while rising out of and standing on water like Jesus.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

er, that should've read "but video-wise, Slash soloing in front of a church in the middle of nowhere < Slash soloing while rising out of and standing on water like Jesus. "

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Then the bathtub overflowed
And the kitchen floor was like a lake
And the man in the doorway he bugged out
And jumped into the cake
I put down the gun, crippled by my darkest thoughts!
Started singing this song with the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link

this was a little perfunctory but god I can't stop laughing. Is there any question that R is one of the most noteworthy musical artists of our time - dude's got us hanging on every word of a goddamn radioplay.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm pretty curious as to where the story will go now, especially with the introduction of a gay pastor character. I mean, it could end up being a spiritual message like U Saved Me, or it could go somewhere else completely.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

there could well be a gangbang coming

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link

There had BETTER be a gangbang coming.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

so like I said, a spiritual message.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

a spiritual massage

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link

again, her SEX has NOT BEEN CONFIRMED.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link

the "heartbreak" the pastor refers to may be when Kelly finds out he's in a room with three gay men.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link

you just blew my mind.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

part three ends with the previously mentioned "drawwURS" couplets. part four ends with him "starting to LIKE IT! I'm starting to LIKE IT!" and part five is them all going to a new kind of club for Kelly, hugging and dancing, with a sample of the Ewok song from Return Of The Jedi

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I could totally see part 5 being the club hit of the summer a la "Ignition (Remix)".

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link

>a sample of the Ewok song from Return Of The Jedi

oh man fuck you I can hear that

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

i heard this on the radio today and it was totally great coz you could see where it was going, and i was just thinking.. oh no.. he's not gonna.. it can't be... oh no he won't... oh no he didn't.

god this is great.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah when I first heard it today I was driving home with my jaw on the floor the whole time

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i love it so much that the pastor actually says "shocking truth."

also i mean the gay thing might be kinda old hat for us seasoned ilx types, but dropping this type of story on urban radio is a whole difft. deal.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link

holy shit

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link

This is the best thing ever.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there any question that R is one of the most noteworthy musical artists of our time - dude's got us hanging on every word of a goddamn radioplay.

No joke. I was listening to 12 Play before I went out tonight (er...last night) and around "Back to the Hood of Things" I realized that the album is um pure genius? And that he's come so far since and is horribly underrated as a performer, composer, artist etc.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i never should have went to bed last night

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 13 May 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

No joke. I was listening to 12 Play before I went out tonight (er...last night) and around "Back to the Hood of Things" I realized that the album is um pure genius?

You lasted that far into the album before realizing that? Surely, you should have recognized his genius by "I Like The Crotch On You," which is easily one of the best song titles in his whole catalog, if not the entire history of recorded music.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

All very bemusing, this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

the whole idea of his naming albums like Twelve Play sequels is kinda bizarre. shouldn't TP3 be, like, Thirty Six Play?

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Or 1,728 Play

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't know anything about this until I read this thread, but wow.

― Sean M (Sean M), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

my local station is using this as a brilliant ploy to keep listeners tuned, by playing part 1 at the end of every hour, then saying "part 2 is up next" and cutting to commercial break.

I remember when the remix to "Ignition" first dropped and I heard a lot of stations play the whole 7 minutes of both versions together for a while. it would be pretty amazing if stations started playing all 5 parts in a row once they're all out, which has gotta be somewhere near 20 minutes.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

is r kelly prog?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

y'know, it's kind of amazing that noone else ever realized this is the perfect way to get the public interested in a concept album/story-opera type record -- make it a multi-part storyline with cliffhangers, and release each part one at a time. I mean, this wouldn't be nearly as exciting if he just hid it on an album for people to hear for the first time all at once.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Al otmfm

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm.. does YSI not have a 15-download limit anymore? i re-upped part II before i realised this.

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

25 downloads.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, this wouldn't be nearly as exciting if he just hid it on an album for people to hear for the first time all at once.

Of course, it also helps that he's nuts.

― d'ngullberry (noisemeltdown), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i think what's compelling about all this is not really the storyline itself, which is ridiculous and lame, but just the overthetop bonkers way that r. kelly believes in it and delivers it and really makes this into this Total Media Event or something. like OH SHIT PART SIXTEEN OF R KELLY'S "TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET" and the whole deadpan/tortured syntax aspect of the lyrics etc.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i guess there are some funny bits in there.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

The song can't be any more entertaining than this thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah amst it's way more about the execution than the subject matter. i totally love the way the radio is treating it like an event, though. depending on how the rest of the series turns out I may consider filling the top 5 spots of my Pazz & Jop singles ballot with it just on principle (not really, but wouldn't that be nuts?)

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?!?!?!?!
anyone who could send me "in the kitchen" and "trapped" via my gmail will get a present in return. pretty please?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i hope it spawns a rash of answer records. "i know that's you in my closet," etc.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

i kinda agree with amst. i love how both songs end on these insanely bombastic crescendos. totally nuts.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

and also yeah, when i read this thread last night i thought "this is why ilx exists."

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

These songs are tailor made for VH1's "Awesomely Bad Songs" series.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

if it was called "Awesomely Good Songs" maybe!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

This song is really crappy and unintentionally hilarious at the same time.

Sort of like Giles.

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

from buffy?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i heart the way both parts I and II get all superdramatic near the end.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The concept of a five-part R&B mini-opera being narrated FROM WITHIN A CLOSET is just...

I don't know.

I'm too tired to grasp it.

What's the word I'm looking for?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Sartrean.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

There was a vogue in seventeenth century literature for a revival of the kind of wordy, static tragedies derived from the rather stilted, overblown example of Seneca's Latin adaptations of Greek tragedy; these were long play-poems which were designed to be read rather than performed, and they were known as . . .

wait for it . . . .

CLOSET DRAMAS!

Milton's "Samson Agonistes" is one, and so is R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet", I reckon.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Skipping 580 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.