R. Kelly - somehow, magic.
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It seems very difficult to determine just what it is about a song and the methods of particular artists that makes them so viscerally enjoyable, at times. R. Kelly is an artist by whom many slow jams that I find simply *delectable* have been composed. So far, one of the only other artists whose slow jams have done anything for me on that level has been the Isley Brothers. Why? I have. No. Idea. I can barely put it into words. But somehow these people do it.Case in point. On a mogger's recommendation, I was listening to some Amazon.com samples of Joe. For the most part, pleasant enough, but nothing that grabbed my ear. Then, on the album And Then..., I get to the song "More & More." The keyboards ring a bell. So does the timpani patch. So does the sort of halting rhythm, and the vocal's motivic surprises. Well, well. It's R. Kelly. But at the same time as I noticed *who* did it, I also realized how much better I liked the melodic material, the chord changes...Then again, Kelly can't have all hits. "Make You My Baby" from this album is also supposedly by him, and it is as generic as all get out, and boring to boot.... which makes it even more strange, how I cannot figure out why R. Kelly somehow has found a way into my pleasure centers, and now and then (fairly consistently at this point) sneaks in and turns them on.There seems to be, also, a direct correlation between the keyboards in songs like "More & More" and a similar part (timbrally and harmonically) in "Haitian Divorce" by Steely Dan.Wow. Brains and ears ... bizarre as hell.
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