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Monday, August 21, 2006
posted by Chi-Chi at 8/21/2006 | Permalink
Kelis: "I know by now that I'm not for everybody"|| Nas's wifey recognizes her musical stance.
The New York Daily News reported that Kelis is crazy mad at her music label for not releasing "Wonderland" internationally and not just for her European fans. I admire Kelis's drive for longevity in the music biz. Rock music has always been her niche. Look at how rock influenced her breakout hit, "Caught Out There"?!?!??! Beyonce's been got biten by Kelis's rock sound on her second single, "Ring the Alarm."
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'I know I'm not for everybody,' says Kelis.
Kelis isn't pleased.
The one-named, Harlem-born singer (who pronounces her name kuh-leese), doesn't think she's getting any respect from her record company.

"My label is constantly trying to take control of me," she says. "I'm not a new artist. I've been working hard to create my persona and have longevity and they went against my wishes."

Specifically, the singer is stewing over the fact that her label, Jive, included the song "F--- Them Bitches" on her CD "Kelis Was Here," out Aug. 27.

"I just did [the song] to get it out of my system," the singer explains. "I did not want it on the album. It's just not a statement I want to make right now."

Longtime fans might find that surprising. After all, we're talking about a singer who made her reputation by singing about things like having sex in public, and enjoying a kind of milkshake that has nothing to do with a malt shop.

At the same time, Kelis considers herself a born-again Christian, and insists that she knows how to keep a handle on her supersexy image. "I know a lot of people think that I don't draw a line," she says. "But I've never done nude photo shoots and I don't feel I'm vulgar with my sexuality."

Likewise, Kelis believes that many listeners have misinterpreted the nuances of her new hit, "Bossy," which finds her happily proclaiming, "I'm boss-ay/I'm the bitch y'all love to hate."

"A lot of people think being bossy means bossing somebody around," the singer says. "But it's about being in control in your life. I'm fighting to be my own woman."

That much has been clear from the start. The 26-year-old singer, born Kelis Rogers, began her career as a teenager, singing hooks on songs by Ol' Dirty Bastard and Wu-Tang Clan's RZA. On her first solo album, 1999's "Kaleidoscope," she presented herself as a multicolored, intergalactic sex goddess: Barbarella meets Foxy Brown. Produced by the Neptunes, the album found Kelis blithely smudging the lines between rock, hip hop and soul.

"I can't be just one thing," Kelis says. "I can't just do rock or hip hop. It's all a part of who I am."

The chorus to her first single, "Caught Out There," found her screaming the line "I hate you so much right now," so loudly, it made Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" seem sheepish.

The song certainly got her noticed, but her album only sold a few hundred thousand copies."

Read more of Kelis's article here



The New York Daily News

Labels: Kelis, Nas

 



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