Because there wasn't no hook on it. It was a story without a hook. Trapped In The Closet exemplifies the one thing that has remained constant throughout Kelly's career: a sense that he's determined above all else to follow his own creative instincts.
This has often meant releasing records that risk alienating his fanbase and putting them out at the most inopportune moments. Most people would probably agree, for instance, that releasing Ignition Remix , with it's line "I'm 'bout to take my key and stick it in the ignition", wasn't the most advisable career move when you've just been hit with charges for child pornography it became a huge hit anyway, because the song was so perfect — the Kelly moral dilemma summed up in microcosm. New Yorker critic Sasha Frere-Jones has referred to the fact that Kelly "seems to have no superego; he is willing to say anything that occurs to him, no matter how strange he sounds or how self-incriminating it might seem.
Kelly says it was his fans who helped him through this darkest point of his career: "We're kinda married, you know?
It took me to go through something like that to realise that my fans feel the same way about me that I do about them, and that inspired me musically, to a level that you will never be able to understand.
When he watched Chris Brown become the centre of his own scandals — which began with his assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna in — Kelly says he could empathise but that he never felt sorry for him. The ones that's talking about Chris Brown, or R Kelly, or anybody that's successful?
I feel sorry for them , not Chris Brown, because he's obviously one strong individual to be able to do what he's done. He got knocked down a little bit and he climbed up. You know, that sounds like Ali to me. That sounds like Martin Luther King to me. That sounds like a lot of the greats that have walked this earth. It even sounds a little bit like Jesus to me. But Jesus is the No 1 inspirer of someone being knocked down and rising again. Despite being found not guilty, Kelly is often seen as fair game for abuse and throwaway criticism.
A recent Macklemore lyric from Thrift Store , for example, ran: "Probably shoulda washed this, smells like R Kelly's sheets Piiisssssss. Kelly pauses. But I don't get into what people think of me, I've graduated from that. This isn't entirely convincing. Shut Up — the defiant final track on Black Panties — explicitly attacks the haters who enjoyed predicting his demise while he underwent throat surgery in Still, Kelly is adamant that it's his fans, not his critics, that fuel him: "It's like you're a circus clown," he says, still not tiring of metaphorical escape acts.
Anything outside the circus don't matter! T he South Side area of Chicago in which Kelly grew up has been plagued recently by an increase of shootings and gang violence. It has prompted Kelly to talk about writing a song to "heal the hood". He says the project has since blossomed into an album: "We're three songs deep into it and will probably end up doing 12 songs. He nods: "It will be a movement. Starting with Chicago, but in the hood around the world.
Kelly has also mentioned Obama, saying he could help save Chicago. Does he think the president has done enough during his time in office? It doesn't matter if it's Obama or a person working in McDonald's. You can start off on burgers and all of a sudden you move on up to management — the people that's still on burgers, they gonna be pissed because they feel like they should have been management.
So they gonna try and pull you down and hate on you. And there's nothing much we can do about it. We just got to keep on moving on with management and ignore the people on burgers.
I ask if the Trayvon Martin case affected him, but as Kelly goes to answer, his US press person finally snaps: "Can we talk about music? Produced and written by R. As of publication, its video has been removed from YouTube, though the song remains on streaming. Reports say Sony has, however, stonewalled Kelly from releasing any new music on its RCA imprint and is weighing its options for voiding his contract.
Kelly collaborations from streaming platforms, including Apple Music and YouTube. The French band apologized on Twitter for not knowing more about the situation when they worked with Kelly. His music is being muted by the darkness of his actions.
The dark always comes to light. This entire industry was established and built by evil and predatory spirits and male chauvinistic behavior. I have personally witnessed it and will no longer be silent about it. The girls were 15, When they went to the bathroom, Tina [Lawson] would go with them. The first thing you think when you listen to it is How has this song, which barely sounds like a song, more like a rejected Saturday Night Live sketch or a Weird Al album track, become a global hit?
What's surprising about it is not that it's bad especially, but that it's incompetent. Macklemore is both unlikable and terrible. The references in it — R Kelly sheets smelling of urine, the popularity of plaid button-up shirts — are over 10 years old, the rhyming patterns often give up halfway through, and you'd get a more astute analysis of modern fashion if you took Mrs Brown to an Urban Outfitters.
So what's its secret? Conventional wisdom is that this is a recession anthem, piercing through the corporate control that has made us believe branded clothing is worth more than it is. After years of hearing about how much bling and money rappers have, the general public want to hear Macklemore say, "Fifty dollars for a T—shirt — that's just some ignorant bitch shit," with his trademark charm and subtlety.
But I believe the Mack is tapping into another global trend, not recession and frugality, but banter. Perhaps not banter exactly, but the banter brigade. You know the ones, who wear hooded animal onesies on nights out to chain nightclubs like Oceana and Tiger Tiger, where they drink alcohol out of funnels and test tubes.
The ones who fill the town centres of Britain every night. Fill them with vomit and Vodka Kick. The UK has slowly been adopting and re-appropriating American frat-house culture for over a decade. The slow creep of Abercrombie, public pranks and a disregard for contemporary culture first took hold in Britain's universities, where it was re-appropriated by the Brits to include "pub golf", a toffy-take on the traditional pub crawl, lots of dressing up strippers and vicars, neon-paint and dressing in animal outfits and a kind of pick-and-mix attitude to music, where TV themes, football chants and 90s pop all blend in second bursts in nightclubs that smell of chlorine and regret.
The dominant "student culture" isn't, as is portrayed in David Nicholls novels , one of leftwing politics and Smiths records, but dressing up, pre-drinking and getting aboard the banter bus.
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