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| Boston |
 R&B’s maestro of carnality hits the sweet spot with his best record in years - a focused, expertly executed suite of songs. His subject? This is R. Kelly, folks. Sex, sex, and sex.Forget the salacious material; you come away from “Untitled’’ marveling at his craftsmanship. When he’s on his game, no modern R&B artist even approaches the Chicago veteran (here working with various producers). On songs like “Echo’’ and “Go Low’’ (which isn’t about a man doing the limbo), the arrangements are tight and the melodies delicious. He simply glides on the groove with “I Love the DJ’’ and adds a twist of old-school funk to “Be My #2.’’ Who else but Kells can tell a woman that she so fine, but she’ll never be his number one? “Number One,’’ a duet with Keri Hilson, is sure to be a hit, with two of the finest voices in pop taking the song to a higher plane. “Text Me’’ is going to be the new playa’s anthem, as Kelly sits at home sipping Patrón waiting for that text with “something freaky’’ describing how he can take care of his girl....full text |
| Nytimes |
| Call it focus, call it obsession, call it tunnel vision, call it formula: R. Kelly is consistent. Album after album he provides single-minded, slow-grinding songs about sex. After singing about pickups, hookups, bedroom marathons, kinks, ménages, even a stray midget, what variations could be left for his 10th studio album, “Untitled”? Well, there’s yodeling. That’s in “Echo,” a ballad with tremulous strings in which he demonstrates how his lover should “scream and moan” with Alpine exuberance while he provides “sex in the morning, sex all day” followed by “sex in the evening, sex all night.” Another song offers an unusual come-on: “Girl you make me want to get you pregnant,” he croons over trickling keyboards in “Pregnant,” which is his kind of vow of fidelity. There’s another curveball come-on in “Be My #2,” which explains that despite a lover’s addictive charms, he plans to keep her on the side: “You are so fun, but you will never be my No. 1,” he sings unapologetically. The music is a direct disco throwback, with wah-wah rhythm, strings and horns sampled from a 1980 song by Rhyze....full text |
| Spin |
| Last year's remarkably lewd 12 Play: Fourth Quarter may go down (so to speak) as one of the great unreleased albums in pop history. Fortunately, several of its prime cuts, including the silky-smooth "Go Low," surface on Untitled, which contains no shortage of fresh raunch. "Bangin' the Headboard" and "Pregnant" (as in "You make me wanna get you…") are bawdy even by Kelly's considerable standards. Elsewhere, he apes The-Dream ("Number One") and, perhaps most perversely, the French disco-house scene ("Be My #2")....full text |
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