I honestly used to be a Kelis fan but I just canNOT get into her new music. I tried listening to the album and her voice and the music just don’t do anything for me. And it’s not that I don’t like dance music, because I do. Her version seems a little listless and lifeless and paint-by-numbers. Throw in some funky fashions and I feel like Kelis is trying to fool me that she REALLY isn’t jumping on the bandwagon…

Kelis has always been a bit quirky with her style, but I just can’t get into this nonsensical, 130 BPM music for the sake of liking Kelis and being a fan. She’s going to need to go back to the drawing board for me.

Kelis’ Fleshtone is in stores now.

I really can’t rock with this song too much, but that’s mostly due to Kelis’ nasally yet smoky alto. This song sounds as if instead of running it through Auto-Tune they ran it through a new plugin called “Sinus-Tone”. It irks me!

However, I love the sentiment behind the song, and now after watching the video, I see my thoughts lined up with Kelis’. I figured the song was about love and I am thinking that theory is proven true since she is carrying her newborn baby on her back.

The “Avatar”-esque makeup and adornment, and then the final shot of her carrying Knight made me think instantly of American-Indians, which is what many people think the storyline of “Avatar” was based on anyway. The video is a visual melange of effects, makeup and looks that Kelis is letting us know she can pull off (remember when she came out she had that multi-colored afro?).

I’m still not sold however on the vocals. The visuals are interesting and colorful, but the vocals for this song are still a bit dull and lifeless. I wonder how her album will balance out…