Four of Kelis' five singles that hit Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart are included on The Hits, as well as three guest spots (one of which, Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got Your Money," charted), leaving plenty of room for tracks that weren't exactly hits. Title semantics aside, the disc amounts to a satisfactory, but not optimal, selection of highlights from Kelis' three U.S.-released albums: 1999's Kaleidoscope, 2003's Tasty, and 2006's Kelis Was Here. (2001's Wanderland, not released in the States, is technically represented through "Young, Fresh N' New," but the song also appeared on Tasty.) Plenty of great material is left off the hourlong sequence, from Tasty's "Rolling Through the Hood" and "Glow" to Kelis Was Here's "Blindfold Me" and "Trilogy," and incorporating "Popular Thug" and/or "Little Suzie" from theWanderland era would have been a good touch. Even so, casual listeners who have wondered whether or not Kelis has had depth beyond a hot single off each album -- "Caught Out There," "Milkshake," "Bossy" -- will get the answer here, and that answer is yes.
Over the past nine years, Kelis has changed her hair color countless times, showing us with every new single and subsequent video not just a new hairstyle, but new, exciting sounds as well. From orange to green to blue she’s never shied away from the bleach bottle. In The Neptunes-produced Ol’ Dirty Bastard song “Got Your Money” she debuted to the world with an orange hairdo, providing the
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Over the past nine years, Kelis has changed her hair color countless times, showing us with every new single and subsequent video not just a new hairstyle, but new, exciting sounds as well. From orange to green to blue she’s never shied away from the bleach bottle. In The Neptunes-produced Ol’ Dirty Bastard song “Got Your Money” she debuted to the world with an orange hairdo, providing the
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There IS something addictively intriguing and appealing about Bossy, and Kelis- this is the first song I've heard but it's really GOT me. When a songs playing in rotation and you don't even notice...! I just read the comparison with Neneh Cherry, whom I also used to love for the hip hop-alt-pop-rock fusion. Do any Kelis fans out there think the two bear similarities?
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Caught out There |
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| 2 Milkshake |
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| 3 Got Your Money [Explicit] |
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| 4 Trick Me [Explicit] |
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| 5 Lil Star |
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| 6 Get Along with You |
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| 7 Young, Fresh N' New |
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| 8 Truth or Dare |
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| 9 Bossy |
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| 10 In Public |
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| 11 Millionarie |
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| 12 Finest Dreams |
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| 13 Suspended |
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| 14 Good Stuff |
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