Kelly has become one of modern R&B & pop music's legends.
This album ultimately went six times platinum! Following the success of this debut Kelly was in demand as a writer, producer & mixer, & became the most consistent hit maker in contemporary R&B music working with the likes of Aaliyah, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Ginuwine, Mary J. Includes his first number-one hit, "Bump N' Grind" & follow-up hit singles: "Your Body's Callin'" & "Sex Me". The Hell We Create ĭead Formats Volume 1 Ī Night of a Thousand Vampires ġ993 solo debut album from R. La Dolce Vita (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): Remastered Īlice: 20th Anniversary Edition
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PREORDER Dayglow - People in Motion plus Catalog Vinyl.The only thing missing from the album now, is a bed. The concept is no more than creating good sexual music and in that respect is has more than succeeded. Ultimately, it ends up being in Kelly’s straightforwardness and simplicity that he succeeds, rather than abstractness. Seriously, if this album hadn’t come out months after I was born, I would seriously consider its conception as being a reason for mine - it is that sexual. He is capable of shifting the focus from light-hearted love to dirty, secretive sexual exploits and fantasies while making them both sound equally sensual.
His songs are held together by his equally sexual tone and a fantastic delivery of each note. Kelly is a romantic at heart, an incredibly sexual one. Looking beneath the incredibly sexual natured exterior of each track you will find love and care. There are moments like ‘Freak Dat Body’ and ‘Back To The Hood Of Things’, where Hip-hop makes headway over R&B to switch things up stylistically and they take away from the audible caressing Kelly does on the rest of the album while remaining catchy and worthwhile.Īpart from these moments, he has compiled a playlist of sex songs for any moment with 12 Play. Sexual meaning is found in almost every millimeter of this project’s architecture. Kelly makes making love constantly sound better than acceptable, he makes it sound necessary. But my body, my body’s tellin’ me yes!”, gold is struck.ĭirty and perverse, yet not at all. When you hear Kelly’s voice crumble beneath its own weight and intensity saying, “My mind’s tellin’ me no. The pitch variations and harmonic melodies put in the same room as boom-bap and funk lock the door and throw away the key. By the time he was done with them, these R&B elements seemed to be intrinsically related to Hip-hop. The album starts and ends with Kelly’s soothing crescendos delivered with the strongest sentiment of passion. Uninhibited by any sort of mental restrictions regarding what is right and what is wrong to talk about. No need to try and interpret what it was that Kelly was talking about, it was sex, plain and simple. Not worried about hiding behind metaphors or toned down realities, he said everything in black and white for all to hear. Kelly was certainly one of these pioneers. That was thanks to the collaborative efforts of all R&B artists in decades past. Sex is all over music and media in general today. Kelly changed R&B music forever when he released his studio debut, 12 Play. He wasn’t the first artist in his subgenre which was termed, “new jack swing’, but he was definitely the one who brought it to the pop-culture forefront in the 90’s. With a natural likening to the original sensual tune-makers of the 1970’s and 80’s like Gaye and Isaac Hayes, Kelly donned his R&B roots beneath a Hip-hop cloak. Kelly would result in an imagined world without the likes of The-Dream, Trey Songz, Miguel or even Usher. Kelly is likely the biggest influence on modern day R&B. No matter the moniker, there is no debate, R. Hip-Hop’s Marvin Gay, the man who put the R in R&B, or my personal favorite, the prince of pillow-talk.
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