9/18/2023 0 Comments Kelis kaleidoscope 4shared![]() I know that I changed how girls wear their hair. I know that I was the first Black artist of this generation to do what I did. Here's the thing: I'm very realistic about my position in the world as it pertains to how I survive, right? So I can sit here and be like, I know what it meant, but I can't live my life like that. How would you describe Kaleidoscope’s legacy to someone who's discovering it for the first time with this reissue? I was just like, this is fun, you get to make songs that are ridiculous and no one else is doing that right now. We had fun, and I had made music my whole life. But it becomes your job, and it's like, it was that even then. I'm grateful to have a job, even more grateful if it's something you like to do. It's like asking someone “Do you remember a very special time at your job?” Probably not. So I didn't really have super memorable moments in recording. I opened my show up with that song for years. They're trying to send everybody white to Mars. They're trying to colonize Mars, what the hell is that about? I was a huge science fiction and I always felt like they tried to write us out of the future. And then we talked about what we wanted to write about like, Yo, I want to write about the show. This is something: I remember sitting in my tiny box of an apartment in New York in Harlem on 149th Street, watching this show about trying to colonize Mars. But as a 17- or 18-year-old child in the music industry, you're definitely going to be in situations where you are vulnerable. Listening to you speak about this time in your life, I don’t get the sense that you felt very vulnerable. Any of the things that were coming at me, I was just doing what we were doing because it was fun. I didn't realize that body image is going to be a thing and that my hair was going to be a conversation, or that me yelling was supposed to be not black enough. It was really just like, I'm out here doing this. And then all of these things started to happen, like, Well, now that we're here, let's look at the fact that you've gained some weight. All of the labels are like, You can't do that. I got in trouble because I pulled this gun on The Chris Rock Show - it was not a real gun by the way, it was a pink rhinestone gun. It came from being, constantly someone trying to tell me what I was and what I wasn't enough of. So I think that all of my responses and my rebellion started to come after the fact, it came from that. How is a white guy going to tell me what's Black enough, first of all? Secondly, how is anybody going to tell me what's Black enough for that record, you know what I mean? I had no identity issues, so the fact that someone felt like they're trying to put these things on me was appalling. I don't even know how I got here! I didn't know anyone was taking this seriously. ![]() ![]() And ’s like, Go for it, aren't you excited? What? No. I'm on a stage and none of those people are there and I'm by myself. We put this record that we were playing around with, making a silly video in the afternoon in Virginia Beach while we were cracking jokes and pulling pranks and being kids. But I was by myself, almost any of the team that I recorded the record with. I had no idea that these things were going to mean something to me, they were going to mean something to everyone else.Īnd it's not like I was fighting to be on these stages: Someone booked me there, and I was like, Okay. I was too young to even understand that this was a different era, a different time. ![]() I understand a lot more now than I did at the time. I don't think that I understood the gravitas of the situation. ![]()
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