R. Kelly releases new Marvin Gaye, Barry White-style single
R. Kelly’s last record, Love Letter, was a good, old-fashioned take on soul jams and smooth declarations of love. But—with news of a whole bunch of new chapters of Trapped In The Closet coming, and with Black Panties as the leaked, relatively randy title for the new record—Kell-votees might have been expecting the R in R&B to turn his soulacoaster around and get back to getting freaky in the club.
Well, it turns out that this is not the case. Black Panties has been renamed Write Me Back, and Kelly’s latest single, “Share My Love,” hit the Internet today. While the track is about getting busy in the bedroom, it’s decidedly not down and dirty. Instead, it’s more like late-’60s/early-’70s funk and soul, à la Marvin Gaye and Barry White. That’s not to say “Share My Love” is a bad song—but it’s for aunts and uncles at backyard barbecues, not us sensual young people looking to release our inner beasts. Either way, it’s still worth a listen ... or 10.
