“So I’d get there, and he’d be like, “oh, are you hungry?” And I’m like “yes, what do you have?” and I’d go and look in his kitchen… “First of all, it was recorded at Dave’s house, which is like two minutes from my house in L.A.: ideal because we’re both borderline hermits, so that worked out really nice,” she laughs. You can tell as much from her hugely, infectiously enthusiastic descriptions of the session at which “Food” was recorded. She’s about to launch her own range of sauces in the US called Feast - “at school I realized sauce is my thing, I personally think everything is better either smothered or poured” - and there’s talk of a TV cookery series, for which she’s just filmed a pilot episode: “a lifestyle show, it’s my life, and there really is no separation for me between the food and the music.” A year and a half course, seven hours a day, five days a week and Saturdays and Sundays you’ve got to get on the line, ready to be hired in a restaurant.”ĭespite her reservations about having to wear “a stupid hat and chef’s getup,” she loved it. I was sitting in my kitchen, watching TV, an ad came on for culinary school and I was like, “yeah, I’m going” I started class Monday morning. I’d fought them for years, then one Friday I got this call telling me they were finally releasing me from my contract. She is a qualified chef, who took a cordon bleu course in 2008, after a traumatic battle with her then-record label came to an end: “I’d been trying to get off the label for four years. As you may have gathered from the title, and indeed the tracks “Jerk Ribs,” “Friday Fish Fry,” “Biscuits N’ Gravy” and “Cobbler,” food has quite a large role to play in Kelis’ sixth album, and indeed her life. It’s ridiculous how much we speak the same language, musically and food-wise.”Īh, food. I musically fell in love with him and I think he’s just a divine person. “It’s like we’re such different people,” says Kelis, “but I met him and he’s really just this brilliant, strange creature. On the other, there was Dave Sitek, guitarist in acclaimed Brooklyn experimentalists TV On The Radio producer by appointment to a certain kind of smart, arty indie band: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals, Liars. On the one hand, there is Kelis Rogers, who first came to prominence singing the hook of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s 1999 hit “Got Your Money” whose debut album “Kaleidoscope” helped usher in the wave of sharp, thrillingly futuristic r’n’b that dominated the charts in the early Noughties: as exemplified by her global hit, 2003’s “Milkshake” whose last album was a pop-dance extravaganza featuring production from will.i.am and David Guetta. So put it in your library too pop it in the basket before it’s too late.Kelis describes her sixth album as “a kind of unspoken lovefest,” albeit one involving two unlikely partners. Along with Track 3, Track 6 Game Show and Track 11 No Turning Back are a couple of the other tracks I find very appealing overall the entire album is an intrinsically, beautiful essential for any music collection, you will never tire of this. I recall seeing a video clip of Track 3 Caught Out There, one of my favourites there’s a lyric in this song,”I hate You So Much Right Now” that drew me to the finding this track again, so now I have it. I’m very glad to have this CD, thoroughly engrossing. As I’ve said on another review here, when I find a song I enjoy I try my best to find the earliest works of the artist and start from there. This is the first album of Kelis I’ve invested in, her debut I believe and what an awesome start what bought me to Kelis is my memory of just how funky the track ‘Milkshake’ is, I’m currently eagerly awaiting on the arrival of the album this track is on, so very keen. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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