Well if you still can't get your head to it, her biggest hit "Milkshake" made us dance and realize that the key to attract a mate is to prepare milkshakes correctly...right?
here's a little reminder anyway:
But that was it for her for most people. Her other singles "bossy", "millionaire", "trick me" and such didn't cause a major impact on the pop mainstream and she practicaly went back to be under the radar. (Which is quite sad considering she has had a really succesfull career on the music business)
But Now after 06's "Kelis was here" she's back with a new look, new sound and a new single.
The name of her newest single is "A capella", the reference to singing without music is really tasty, the lyrics? not that much. It starts with the line:
"I was walking, was living
My melody was acapella
And you think, well this might be good, but then it develops to the classical love song with the:
"Before you,
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony’s
The only song to sing"
I mean, what happened to the objectifying women, milkshake making, bossy kelis? This sounds too mellow for her. But at the end of the day, the lyrics are not half as bad as the music. Now, I don't know who's responsible for it but whomever this is, needs to be slapped in the face, the music sounds like a rusty, old fashioned house/electro; or whatever they thought they were doing.
It is not as bad as I make it sound, just so you know, it is actualy pretty catchy, the drum line is very cool, the saw's are very well placed and has that sound that everybody is doing nowadays, but it just pisses me off a bit that music is just getting more and more recicled. (Well at least she didn't pull a "Not my self tonight" by xtina) But you be the judge:
NOW, when I looked at the video I was literaly speechless, the video is ART, is TRIBAL, is an EDITORIAL orgasm.
Every single scene on this video is fashion impersonated, and who else could be responsible for this than our beloved Rankin, co-founder of DAZED AND CONFUSED (Je t'adore Dazed).
The photography and lights that they used on the video is very well planned and directed. The editing is just brilliant. The vibrating wild, golden, jungle vibe the video portrays is refreshing; very different from the clubbing/partying/hanging out/futuristic looking videos we've been bombed with for the past couple years. (There's only so much robots and technologic shit we can take.)
The outfits are not expected but very much appretiated, The yellow dress towards the end is very Prêt-à-porter (Just take the exagerated tail and you're ready to go summer) along with the brown dress-like thing on the dessert scene.
The feathery head peace on the first scenes is definitely current (I am dying to get my hands on one of those) so kudos to the outfits department in charge of this video, they seriously did a brilliant job.
Now in the other hand, talking about make up, there are some parts in which I just want to rub a napkin on her face, e.g: whatever they tried to do with those black lines on her face during the meddley. All the make up in the other scenes is pretty much flawless, so I don't know what happened in there.
Last but not least, the hair. A mullet...REALLY?
Enough said. Hair department needs to get shot.
So watch/enjoy the video and leave your comments about it. Thank you for reading!
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