mikematronik said:

Yup, been waiting for people to come around on this one...

It takes a pop music expert to notice that.

The best songs are always the minimalistic ones.

Few groups or artist can pull a multi-layered pop song.

The Pet Shop Boys have done it with several of their singles...especially with Left to my own devices.

Strangely PSB's most reveired classic song is a minimalist track called West End girls.

That is why they so fucking brilliant.
[Edited 4/4/10 15:04pm]

mikematronik said:

Or When Doves Cry? Minimalism owns on the dance floor. It dates itself less quickly

MendesCity said:

mikematronik said:

Yup, love that one too!

Kelis will perform Tuesday (April 6th) on "Jimmy Kimmel Live".

Kelis Works With 'Amazing' Benny Benassi, David Guetta On Remix EP
'Acapella,' the first single from Flesh Tone, gets the dance-music treatment



April 6, 2010


Acapella — The Remixes, an EP of electronic variations of the first single off Kelis' forthcoming Flesh Tone album is available digitally Tuesday (April 6), featuring production from a handful of Kelis' apparent favorites from the dance/electronic music world.

The original version of "Acapella" was produced by current dance-music crossover star David Guetta, so it's not surprising he maintains an extended mix on the EP.


Notably, Kelis also teamed up with Grammy Award-winning Italian dance-music producer Benny Benassi recently, the results of which are a Benassi-helmed remix of "Acapella," Benassi's upcoming single "Spaceship" and another song on Flesh Tone.

MTV News caught up with both Kelis and Benassi just before they took the stage to perform both "Acapella (Benny Benassi Remix)" and "Spaceship" at the recent Ultra Music Festival in Miami for a crowd of close to 100,000 people. The occasion marked the first time the duo performed the song together for a live audience.

"He's amazing," Kelis said. "He's been amazing. He did a remix for me ... that's ridiculous. I just think his take on stuff is very him. You recognize his sound, and that's important for a producer. I love the fact that I can give him a record to remix and it literally sounds like a new song."

"This was a big opportunity for us," Benassi said. "To work with her ... it's a beautiful experience because we get to put our bass line and our energy for dance music with a beautiful voice."

Other producers included on Acapella — The Remixes EP are L.A. house DJ/producer Dave Audé and U.K.-based dance-music trio Bimbo Jones.


http://www.mtv.com/news/a...tory.jhtml

Identity said:

I recorded it but haven't watched yet.

JackieBlue said:

Her performance was fantastic!! She sounded great and that song is now starting to grow on me. Love her new look too. Can't wait for this album to drop. Kelis is my girl!

Kelis rocked a tribal ensemble last night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Roll tape...

Love the look and the fact that she doesn’t have a whole troupe of dancers doing bad choreography.

"Flesh Tone" Confirmed Release Dates:

"Flesh Tone" will be released in the U.S. and Canada on July 6th and on May 17th in all other countries. (North American fans have a 2-month wait ? Lame.)

Dewrede said:

Yeah. I like the song, but she's not getting my money because of her blatant disrespect for animals.

GirlBrother said:

If I didn't buy records from any artist with whom I disagreed with some of their principles then I probably wouldn't buy any music at all.

Kelis: Verbal Warrior

April 2010
By Ruby Warrington

The restaurant is the kind of place that serves lurid green cocktails in goldfish-bowl glasses with four straws for sharing. It’s located slap-bang in the middle of Ocean Drive, Miami, and we’re out on the sidewalk. Cars honk as they pass, and kids who look as if they’ve walked off the set of Jersey Shore stop by to say hi every five minutes. In short, it’s hardly the ideal spot to conduct an interview. But this is where Kelis, in town to promote her new album at the annual Winter Music Conference, wanted to come for lunch, and you get the feeling that what Kelis wants, Kelis gets.

Amazonian in a grey marl catsuit, her head close-shaved save for a tribal-looking plait that snakes down her back, the singer has taken command of the menu and is going ahead and ordering for everybody. “I’m a pushy food person,” she shrugs. “I just know what’s good, so I’m, like, ‘Trust me, you’re going to like it’. And I find joy in food — so it’s, like, I’m sharing the joy.” When I tell her, okay, but I don’t eat meat, she snickers (or is that a snarl?) and I am labelled “one of the boring crew”. Apparently, there is less joy in vegetables. If anybody embodies the concept of “fierce”, then she is it.

The world hasn’t heard from Kelis in a while. The last album was Kelis Was Here, in 2006, of which the biggest-selling single was Bossy (doing 1.3m ringtone sales in America). It’s been six years, however, since Kelis has had any real success in the UK — it was in the summer of 2004 that her third album, Tasty (Bossy? Tasty? Anybody else getting a “pushy food person” theme?), went platinum here, and we were told that her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. Her latest offering, Flesh Tone, has been a long time coming — and it sounds very different. Less self-conscious, more a celebratory slice of commercial dancefloor heaven.

Friends and select music-industry taste-makers were invited to the first full playback of the album last night, at an open-air, candlelit dinner catered by Kelis herself (it transpires that she trained as a cordon bleu chef during her four-year hiatus from recording). The mood is upbeat, anticipating a big success. The single Acapella is a David Guetta production (he of the Midas touch when it comes to creating mainstream dance hits for the likes of Kelly Rowland, Madonna and the Black Eyed Peas) and already top of the club charts on both sides of the Atlantic — and somebody from the label starts whooping and high-fiving when an email comes through to say the video (shot by Rankin) has made the most-viewed list on YouTube.



Up close, with her warrior hair and honed, voluptuous body, a tattoo here and there, Kelis looks older and infinitely wiser than the glossy R&B babe who left us. Only 17 when she landed her first recording contract, she turned 30 last August — but other milestones have also been reached. A recent mother, she gave birth to Knight, now eight months old, in the middle of divorce proceedings from the rapper Nas. The situation is ridiculously messy, and the conversation off-limits due to a legal battle over alimony. Both have muttered about infidelity and there was a failed stab at a reality show. (Nas apparently commenting: “It was boring. We were too guarded.”)

It sounds sad, depressing. But as the food arrives on Ocean Drive, steaming plates of deep-fried yucca, seafood gumbo, steak and refried beans (it’s a Cuban place belonging to Gloria Estefan, one of Kelis’s idols), there is little sign that the recent divorcee is anything less than fine. She says she loves being 30. “My mom always used to tell us, ‘Your twenties? Whatever. In your thirties you’ll be your most beautiful, your sexiest, your smartest.’ I’ve been through so many life changes getting here, it’s, like, she was right.” She describes Acapella as “a love song — ‘before you, my whole life was acapella’ — like, before you came I was singing alone, there was no music”, and says she wrote it for her son.

It is obvious that Knight is very much the centre of her world. There are many more foodie words to describe him (“scrumptious”, “delicious”, “yummy”) and she tells me that he is “surrounded by love. This is the first time I’ve left him, he usually goes everywhere with me. I strap him to me”. He is currently with his grandmother in Kelis’s home town of New York (she splits her time between there and LA), and she says she gets all the support she needs from her mother, sisters and friends. Motherhood, meanwhile, has made her feel “really savage. I was in labour for 67 hours. I went natural, and it was savage! If you ever doubted the glory of God, you have to rethink that after having a baby. I mean, there’s no way I could have done this by myself. There is a creator”. She leans in closer to describe the intensity of love she feels for her son: “I mean, I will literally kill you. If it’s between you and my kid, you do not have a chance.” Eyes blazing, the warrior pigtail swinging, I believe her.

And isn’t this what women have always loved about Kelis? She seems to embody the notion of the alpha female — a woman who isn’t afraid to voice her full rage, who is in control of her sexuality and who will file for divorce from her husband six months into her first pregnancy if those “differences” are “irreconcilable” enough. Her message has always been about standing up for yourself — now it appears to be about moving on. She says she doesn’t hold grudges. “I definitely get verbal and confron­tational,” she says, “but once I get it out, I’m good. If life knocks you down, you just get up again. And again. And again.”

Unashamedly upbeat, Flesh Tone was recorded while Kelis was heavily pregnant, and despite what was going on in her private life, she has said: “The mood I was in was so robust and full of life. Being pregnant and recording was awesome. I just felt I had so much to say.” The record veers away from sex and channels all the emotion of her previous offerings, and she describes it as “full of life”. She says she turned down numerous raunchy R&B tracks for the album. “I’m in a different place right now. I’m a mom.” Change, she believes, is necessary and good.

Earth Mother, if that’s what her latest reincarnation is about, is a role that suits Kelis. For all her ferocity, there is something nurturing about her foodie side, along with the fact that her return to the front line of the music business is largely about providing for her son. Reports have it that the intense wrangling over alimony with Nas is because she had become financially dependent on her ex — and she is obviously ready to embrace life as a single, working mother. There is talk of a sauce line, off the back of her cordon bleu training, and a range of accessories. When she sees herself in 10 years time, she says, she is running a restaurant. For now, “everything I do I’m like, make it fun!” she says. “This life has been a blessing, but there’s a lot of sacrifice that comes with it, and if I can’t have fun while I’m doing it, then it’s not worth it.”



http://entertainment.time...088909.ece

Official album cover.

Kelis Set To Play London Gigs

April 2010

Kelis has announced two London gigs.

The Grammy-nominated star - who has taken top spots on the dance charts on both sides of the Atlantic with her latest single Acapella - will play G-A-Y at Heaven on May 8 and the Coronet on May 14, to promote her new album Flesh Tone.

Kelis, who will be playing The Big Chill in August, told MTV: "It's very 'last woman standing', it's like the end of the world child type thing - it's got all these ethnic influences in it... It's really tribal and kind of surreal at the same time."



http://www.belfasttelegra...z0lJftOE5n

I'm not going to London anytime soon so I hope she plays my area. Had tickets to see her a few years back and she cancelled.

I have always loved this woman
Kelis is SO fierce!

Looking super hot!
Onstage at Santos Party House in New York on Wednesday night (April 21), where she debuted new material from "Flesh Tone."