Kelis

One of the freshest new voices in the R&B landscape, Kelis delivers a debut LP pairing her distinct vocal styles with an array of bright, ear-tickling beats. Produced entirely by hit-making duo The Neptunes, Kaleidoscope sports a highly original sound unlike anything else out there today. Highly recommended.

What's arresting about the single "Caught Out There" isn't just the already infamous chorus,
"I hate you so much right now"; it's the arrangement's take on love gone bad - the
plummeting pinging effects somewhere between a video game and sirens responding to a
criminal incident. What's more, Kelis, a Harlem-born twenty-year-old, is too musically
adventurous and emotionally ambivalent to employ any one attitude. Plumbing r... More >

Kaleidoscopic not as in psychedelic--this is pop funk straight up--but as in changeable, hard to get a bead on. Beyond male-identified, that is. The many moods of Kelis only begin with the hissy fit she's gone pop with (which, I should mention, is about as riot-grrrl as Gwen Stefani on a bad hair day). She stands by her man, reasons with her man, lies for her man, watches TV alongside her man, loads his gun, f*cks him in the window, hopes he misses his damn plane. She thinks about ghetto boys and girls, she thinks about outer space, and mainly she thinks about her man. Why else would she get so mad at him? (Grade - A-)