I didn't realize that body image is going to be a thing and that my hair was going to be a conversation, or that me yelling was supposed to be not black enough. It was really just like, I'm out here doing this. And then all of these things started to happen, like, Well, now that we're here, let's look at the fact that you've gained some weight. All of the labels are like, You can't do that. I got in trouble because I pulled this gun on The Chris Rock Show - it was not a real gun by the way, it was a pink rhinestone gun. It came from being, constantly someone trying to tell me what I was and what I wasn't enough of. So I think that all of my responses and my rebellion started to come after the fact, it came from that. How is a white guy going to tell me what's Black enough, first of all? Secondly, how is anybody going to tell me what's Black enough for that record, you know what I mean? I had no identity issues, so the fact that someone felt like they're trying to put these things on me was appalling. I don't even know how I got here! I didn't know anyone was taking this seriously. And ’s like, Go for it, aren't you excited? What? No. I'm on a stage and none of those people are there and I'm by myself. We put this record that we were playing around with, making a silly video in the afternoon in Virginia Beach while we were cracking jokes and pulling pranks and being kids. But I was by myself, almost any of the team that I recorded the record with. I had no idea that these things were going to mean something to me, they were going to mean something to everyone else.Īnd it's not like I was fighting to be on these stages: Someone booked me there, and I was like, Okay. I was too young to even understand that this was a different era, a different time. I understand a lot more now than I did at the time. She does possess a demonic godzilla-with-toothache roar.brilliantly futuristic.", Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000" - ".Refreshing, vibrant and replete with futuristic flourishes.I don't think that I understood the gravitas of the situation. The material veers from hard looks at rocky relationships.to, oh dear, UFOs.Best track is 'Ghetto Children', a positive, uptempo song with catchy chorus, crisp rap and a strong echo of Stevie Wonder.", Ranked #10 in Nme's "Top 50 Albums of the Year"., 3.5 stars out of 5 - ".her background in jazz, gospel, rock and r&b brings a deeply felt sonic futurism.this interplanetary power-girl mix sounds both danceably down-to-earth and shockingly new.", ".one of the hottest R&B debuts of 1999.a full spectrum of moods and tempos.bound together by Kelis' reflective lyrics and the rubber soul production of the Neptunes.", Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000"., 3 stars out of 5 - ".Pop's best mad psycho-bitch from hell. ".fleshes out her persona with petulant sass and roller-rink whimsy, pegging her romantic maturity halfway between Brandy and Mary J.what lingers are the minimalist staccato beats from production duo the Neptunes." - Rating: B+, 9 out of 10 - ".a futuristic, visionary, multi-layered work of R&B, funk, soul and rap, furnished with an inspirational, psychedelic spirituality, rarely seen but desperately needed in these cynical times.We need more like this.", 4 stars out of 5 - ".an inspired debut.She establishes herself as a solo artist with an album that packs punches of the Mike Tyson variety and oozes confidence from every beat.", 6 out of 10 - ".Kelis is.a cool sound on an album full of them.The album's production standout is 'Mars' where the chorus impossibly melds slow keyboards, fast bully chants, stutter drums, and Kelis' angled wailings with lyrics that involve refusing to leave the planet.", ".The producers possibly see themselves as the new Jimmy Jam-Terry Lewis.
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