★★★★★
Apologies for delaying this review so long, but I thought it might help to approach Black Panties a couple months reviewed from its release. Primarily this was due to an over reliance on the Village Voice-rekindled narrative of Jim DeRogatis vs. R. Kelly. It's forever a compelling case, perhaps more than any publicly acknowledged pop star's fatal flaws since Ike Turner or Phil Spector. If only, it's because R. Kelly slipped out of being charged with nary a dent on his mainstream popularity...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-02-12
★★★★★
If you accept from the very beginning that Black Panties is as an album under the genre of 'horny', then 46-year-old R. Kelly's 12th solo album is actually pretty damn good. An album which basically revolves almost exclusively about pussy, the only way he is getting away with it is probably due to his absolute commitment to delivering you with the smoothest of smooth R&B vocals over well produced beats when dropping lines like "Gonna go down on my knees/And ask that pussy to marry me," on Marry...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-01-23
★★★★★
Should we distinguish between the life of an artist and the work that he or she creates? I was young, sometime early in high school, when I first discovered the works of Richard Wagner. I was absolutely, utterly enthralled -- the German composer's works were at the time some of the most overwhelmingly beautiful pieces of music that I had heard in my life...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2014-01-09
★★★★★
We hate to pile on, but pile on we shall. R. Kelly blew it. After getting a quiet reprieve from a number of those who avowed never to listen to another R. Kelly record again and then reneged upon hearing the recent glories that are Write Me Back and Love Letter, Kelly has gone and reminded all of us why we swore never to listen again in the first place...
- www.soultracks.com
2013-12-31
★★★★★
At 46, R. Kelly is adept at finding inspiration in the banal, and though he's beloved as a purveyor of baby-making jams, he often sings of everyday struggles. After two albums of soul- and disco-influenced R&B, Black Panties is the prolific crooner's return to raunch, but it's emotionally more varied than the title suggests...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-12-12
★★★★★
Robert Sylvester Kelly is, if not a deity, than certainly of that cluttered diaspora, that brilliant and dangerous and flawed muddle of preternaturally talented human beings, demigods whose talent has eclipsed the hominal, leaving them above us all whilst below the law. If he is not Eros, he is certainly what plays upon Eros' stereo when it has come time to ply his trade; if he is not Aphrodite, he is certainly whom Aphrodite fucks; R...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-12-13
★★★★★
Robert Sylvester Kelly is, if not a deity, than certainly of that cluttered diaspora, that brilliant and dangerous and flawed muddle of preternaturally talented human beings, demigods whose talent has eclipsed the hominal, leaving them above us all whilst below the law. If he is not Eros, he is certainly what plays upon Eros' stereo when it has come time to ply his trade; if he is not Aphrodite, he is certainly whom Aphrodite fucks; R...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-01-05
★★★★★
R. Kelly
At 46, R. Kelly is adept at finding inspiration in the banal, and though he's beloved as a purveyor of baby-making jams, he often sings of everyday struggles.
After two albums of soul- and disco-influenced R&B, Black Panties is the prolific crooner's return to raunch, but it's emotionally more varied than the title suggests...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-12-13
★★★★★
Pussy. Pussy is what pervades R. Kelly's 12th album that he, accordingly, titled Black Panties. Kelly has infamously been connected with sex, whether that be through the content of his music, people's propensity to use his records to soundtrack their own bedroom activities, or in other, much less savory ways...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-01-22
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