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It's typically garish and glorious.
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Kelis Was Here sounds like a talented, left-field hip-hop diva in a holding pattern, concerned about her legacy but uncertain as to how to go about cementing it.
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Bloated with ideas and parsimonious with tunes.
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Her multitudinous influences, free from the collagen that an omnipresent production team offered, have dissolved and separated out of their former matrix, the subsequent runny blotches of genre-hashing burbling up to fill Kelis Was Here with rubbish that has no discernible order.
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SpinHer... most streamlined effort yet. [Sep 2006, p.104]
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A bloated 77-minute collection that badly mistakes quantity for quality.
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The album occasionally misfires... but there's still sass and creativity here.
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Sliced in half, Kelis' fourth album would be twice as good. As an EP it would be perfect. But in it's current incarnation, it's one to cherry pick from your favourite download store.
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MojoA typical case of slack self-editing... Kelis was here too long, frankly. [Nov 2006, p.101]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 40
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Mixed: 3 out of 40
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Negative: 5 out of 40
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LisaNov 26, 2006