Kelis has released the video for "Brave", the fourth single from her fabulous electronic fifth studio album Flesh Tone. The Rankin-directed video is much less high concept than the videos for "Acapella" or "4th of July (Fireworks)". Kelis is featured against a blank white backdrop for one long, continuous take—without any edits—that never cuts away from the singer.
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What a difference a year makes. Last summer, R&B songstress Kelis was pregnant, involved in a nasty public divorce with Nas and without a record label. It would have been no surprise if the singer had left the industry altogether.
Fast forward one year. Kelis delivers a fabulous electronic fifth studio album Flesh Tone. Kelis made her mark in R&B with the hypnotizing and ubiqutous call of "Milkshake" but the new album is strictly electronica. Flesh Tone collaborates with super-producers such as France's David Guetta and Italian electro-house synthesizers Benny and Alle Benassi to ramp up Euro-house disco aesthetic. The tracks are all up-tempo, from the hard-driving and techno "Emancipate" to the Kylie-inspired "Brave." And of course "4th of July (Fireworks)" is a club banger and the new music video is luxe and magical. The sound on Flesh Tone is a great new niche for Kelis and she literally lights up the dance floor with fireworks.
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One week ago: Kelis debuted a luxe new music video for second single from Flesh Tone, "4th of July (Fireworks)." Watch Kelis perform "4th of July" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and a behind-the-scenes feature on making the video AFTER THE JUMP ...
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Kelis has debuted a luxe new music video for her "4th of July (Fireworks)" where the she literally lights up the night sky with fireworks. It's a midtempo track and the beat is hot. Oh and the "Milkshake" singer looks all kinds of fabulous. The track is the second single from her upcoming album Flesh Tone that will be available on July 6 .
Kelis will appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday. Watch the new "4th of July" video, as well as the ferosh Madonna vs "Milkshake" mash-up she performed at Los Angeles Pride and London's G-A-Y, WHEN YOU JUMP ...
