{"id":1035,"date":"2010-08-17T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:00:08","slug":"kelis-flesh-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/kelis-flesh-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"KELIS + Flesh Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Flesh-Tone-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1036\" title=\"Flesh-Tone-M-Review-JulyAugust2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Flesh-Tone-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\" alt=\"Flesh Tone \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Flesh-Tone-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Flesh-Tone-M-Review-JulyAugust2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>K<\/strong><strong>ELIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Flesh Tone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Interscope]<\/p>\n<p>In this post-Black Eyed Peas world, it\u2019s not enough for R&amp;B singers to make genre records. The key, as Rihanna and Christina Aguilera can attest, is to move the masses with futuristic dance pop. This is fine by Kelis, an artist who has long dabbled in hip-hop and minimalist funk, showing a willingness to color outside the lines. On her fifth album, the Harlem-born singer does the dance-makeover thing on her own terms. <em>Flesh Tone<\/em> plays like a dispatch from a lonely space station where Kelis has sequestered herself with only her wounded psyche and a techno supercomputer. Immersed in the strobe-light thump of European clubland, the singer ruminates on lost love\u2014likely referencing her divorce from rapper Nas\u2014and finds salvation in her infant son. It\u2019s an honest, emotionally messy record, and it\u2019s only in the final three tracks\u2014\u201cEmancipation,\u201d \u201cBrave\u201d and \u201cSong for the Baby\u201d\u2014that this astronaut finds the strength to come back down to earth. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KELIS Flesh Tone [Interscope] In this post-Black Eyed Peas world, it\u2019s not enough for R&amp;B singers to make genre records. The key, as Rihanna and Christina Aguilera can attest, is to move the masses with futuristic dance pop. This is fine by Kelis, an artist who has long dabbled in hip-hop and minimalist funk, showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,627,628,623,626],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}