After doing battle with Beyoncé and before her new album, Dirt, we rate the best of Kelis’s career, from the ragers to the musical recipes
. Beyond the gorgeous melody, there’s almost nothing to it – a tough beat, a bit of synth – but that’s all it needs: the Neptunes at their spartan best.Outside her work with the Neptunes, Like You might have the most striking beat in Kelis’s catalogue: a cut-up, twisted sample of an opera singer that bursts into a nagging hook on the chorus.
This is by far the best of the Neptunes’ attempts to forge a 21st-century funk-rock hybrid: the sound of Kelis bursting forth from a mass of car alarms and grinding electronics is hugely exciting; no comparable NERD production ever lived up to it.
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