Kelis plays the Danforth Music Hall June 11. Her first two albums 99s Kaleidoscope and 2001s U.K.-only Wanderland) made her a star overseas, but Kelis didnt blow up stateside until her third album, Tasty, was released in 2003. (Her divorce from Nas?)Ī couple of songs sound like Much More Music hits (Breakfast, Forever Be), but a few genuine surprises – the Simon & Garfunkelesque cover of Labi Siffre’s Bless The Telephone, the slow-burning Floyd and country-rocking Friday Fish Fry – demonstrate Kelis’s deft versatility. Kelis presents the music thats influenced her, with stories on why its the music she loves.
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On a horn-heavy album full of throwback soul, funk and a dose of Afrobeat, husky-voiced Kelis sings mostly happy songs about satisfaction in the love department, with the exception of Biscuits N’ Gravy, which alludes to a long-suffered pain that might never fully go away. Kelis’s entire last album was organized around cuisine and titled Food. In 2014, she’s nurturing herself – inspired by the records she grew up listening to.
This is not the Kelis who sang about her milkshake, nor is Food similar to the electro-dance turn of 2010’s Flesh Tone. I’m always reminded of the Family Guy scene where Peter Griffin is forced by the other prisoners to push his boobs together and sing ‘My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard’ with his pants down. No surprise, really, coming from an R&B singer who trained as a saucier at Le Cordon Bleu. An absolute classic, will go down into the history books this one. On the heels of a food-truck promotion at SXSW, Kelis gives us an album called Food, in which half of the songs are named for edibles.
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