I was listening to
R. yesterday (which is such a great, ridiculous, decadent spectacle--which, of course, is R.'s trademark, but I still think he does smooth partytime best (see:
Chocolate Factory) and was reminded how fantastic this song is. It's just a perfect example of everything R. Kelly is capable of and everything a huge ballad should be. And for a song about cheating, it's so self-pitying and solipsistic, but Kells pulls it off so well. So many perfect details--"I don't believe the shit I did the night we were at your mom's/I got a page from out of town, lied and said it was my job/
Grabbed my hat, coat, gloves and scar"..."All I know is uh, I was asleep, they came in/Woke me up pourin' hot grits/And all kinds of shit on me man, okay beatin' me and shit/Hittin' me with all sorts of type shit" and the fact the he just add the stuff about the kids in this bizare analogy: "Playin' Russian roulette/with hearts not to mention the kids (I'd love a book of weirdo R. Kelly analogies). Kelly goes completely full throttle with the big theatrical R+B slow jam, it's like some weird bootleg with Gilbert and Sullivan, Scott Walker and an MJ slow jam, but it sounds like NO ONE but Kelly.
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)
Replace "MJ" with "Prince", Kelly is obviously much more Prince.
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)
has anyone else heard 'africa', i cant quite decide on it
― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)
I've debated starting a thread about "What I Feel/Issues" before
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)
The best part of "What I Feel/Issues" is "There's a hole in me/and it rocks my mind!"
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)
there's a million great parts, but for some reason the sound effects behind "lock and key" feel like my personal highlight. Any time you hear a door shut ON a song about a door being shut? KLASSSIK!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)
People who listen to music by paeds who piss on 14-yr-old girls should be shot. Not to mention that he's the tackiest crooner in the history of 'music'. What a cunt.
― Timofey Pnin (Feynman), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Apparently like a bad case of VD, from his language.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)
there are two types of people in this world, 'larrys' and 'bonos'.
R Kelly is most definitely a Bono. Timofey is a fucking Larry.
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)
This song is just a warm-up for RK's ultimate epic, 'Showdown', on Chocolate Factory..
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)