Kelis, 'Flesh Tone' - First Listen

Kelis' fifth studio album, produced by a Diplo, David Guetta and will.i.am (among others), is due for release on May 17, 2010. Intro The first sign of how strongly Kelis wants her album to chime with the times arrives within three seconds, when a loping kickdrum announces that she's gone italo disco. While stately electro-funk pings all around her, the ex-Mrs Nas offers a deliberately overwrought, emotion-saturated vocal – a bit like Bowie circa 'Heroes'. Key lyric: “We control the dancef...

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