Don't get me wrong, I think she has some songs that are worth humming when you feel the need to hum something hum-able.
My beef with her, if you can really call it beef --I wouldn't, though I just did -- is probably why so many people thinks she's the flyest of them all.
- She's a manufactured as a Lee Press On nail that's already tinted red.
Don't believe me, you never noticed how her crew over at J pushed how she was the anti bump n grind, sing hooks on a track while touching your tummy {Key(e)s 'came out' in the midst of Ashanti taking over the summer and airwaves of 2001 or was it 02?}, classically trained, b-girl stance having, poetic, non-commercialized pop princess of the year? Y'all don't remember that? Remember when J couldn't decide if her 'real name' was Keys or Keyes but they insisted that it was, in fact, her actual surname and it was just destiny, fate that should would become the ubergifted pianist that she was?
- Her videos perpetuated the same negative stereotypical imagery of black men that those "I'm in the pen, so I guess I'll write a street novel about the game" books that we all refer to as Urban "Lit."
I understand that a number of songs deal with separation and all, but was there any particular reason that her video love interest was always going to SingSing instead of, say, Stanford? If separation is separation, why go with the negative image? Why couldn't he have gone off to war (or at least basic training for those pre-pick a random Middle Eastern country to bomb War), why not college, why not move across the country because he just got this bomb ass job as an electrical engineer? Why prison/jail damnit?!
- Like You'll Never See Me Again sounds like a Prince song.
This is correct and exactly why I don't like the garbage. If I wanted to listen to Prince, I'd listen to Prince. I get it, there's nothing new under the sun; but even the really good remakes have some bit of originality. At least some, at little bit. Every time I hear the song, I feel like it was a recording of some concert in honor of the man. You know, those shows that are usually on BET or VH1 (even MTV had a few) where a younger, sexier artist typically does injustice to the icon's iconic song.
I could go on, but I trust you get the point. I'd much rather listen to Chrisette Michele, at least she's originally boring as hell on her own, with her own monotoness and whatnot. You don't see her swagger jacking from (insert the name of another really boring under 30 singer), now do you?
