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1 |
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発売日 |
2015年12月11日 |
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規格品番 |
88875139812 |
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SKU |
888751398122 |
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 01:09:06
Recording information: Chicago Recording Company, Chicago, IL; Fisticuffs Gym, Culver City, CA; PatchWerk Recording Studios, Atlanta, GA; The Boom Boom Room, Los Angeles, CA; The Chocolate Factory, Chicago, IL. Photographer: Christian Lantry. Robert Kelly remains driven as ever to take a metaphorical theme to a comedic extreme and then deviate from it in direct and explicit fashion. He does so from the start of The Buffet, an album released almost exactly two years after the thin Black Panties. In the voice-only "The Poem," he sets the tone -- make that table -- by announcing that he'll be "toasting your juices all night." If that doesn't get the point across, he makes a slurping sound, for five seconds, that could make Hannibal Lecter shudder. The following "Poetic Sex" involves a sweetened plea, "Baby, feed me," and a defiant punctuation of "My lyrics got a big dick and I just fucked the shit outta y'all." Anyone who has heard more than a handful of Kelly hits could accurately predict what a song titled "Marching Band" entails, and the pied piper comes through with what's easily the set's silliest and catchiest song. With recent R&B hits from younger peers increasingly blunt with lines like "eat the booty like groceries" and "so big it's like a foot is in your mouth," Kelly's form of lewd lyricism is decreasingly distinctive. He gets by here, as he always does, on his regenerative inventory of frisky melodies, and even teams up with some of the artists who have either headlined or assisted the more explicit end of pop-R&B. Jhene Aiko appears on the Aaliyah-jacking slow jam "Let's Make Some Noise," and though she was recorded in a studio far from Kelly's Chicago-based Chocolate Factory, the duet partners don't hesitate to make like they're beneath the sheets with one another. "Switch Up" likewise features a younger and vulgar R&B artist, Jeremih, who debuted six years earlier with the Kelly-lite "Birthday Sex," though the song is closer to Empire soundtrack filler. The Buffet does have more dimensions than Black Panties, including the enjoyable "Step in the Name of Love" rewrite "Backyard Party" and the throwback, Love Letter-styled "All My Fault." ~ Andy Kellman
エディション | Deluxe Edition
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1.[CD]
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1.The Poem
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2.Poetic Sex
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3.Anything Goes featuring Ty Dolla $ign
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4.Let's Make Some Noise featuring Jhene Aiko
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5.Marching Band featuring Juicy J
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6.Switch Up featuring Lil' Wayne and Jeremih
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7.Wanna Be There featuring Ariiraye
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8.All My Fault
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9.Wake Up Everybody
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10.Get Out Of Here With Me
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11.Backyard Party
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12.Sextime
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13.Let's Be Real Now featuring Tinashe
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14.I Just Want To Thank You featuring WizKid
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15.Keep Searchin'
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16.Sufferin'
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17.I Tried
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18.Barely Breathin'
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ステッピンな"Backyard Party"を先行公開しておいて、実体はアンビエントから極上のMJオマージュ、ブルースやカントリーまでいつも以上に多彩な意匠を並べた通算13作目。言うなれば、従来の持ち札から進行形の嗜好までをつまみ食いで堪能させる才能のショウケースというわけで、〈ビュッフェ〉というからには単曲聴きも想定したのだろうが、実際はコース料理としての流れも自然に整えられている。その流れを作るのは曲調の幅を気にさせないシンギン・ラップの滑らかな自由さであり、ジェレマイやタイ・ダラーのような後継者を招待する余裕であり、ジェネイ・アイコやティナーシェの差し込むアリーヤ風の情緒だ。それでいて胃もたれさせない軽やかな聴後感に、キングの底知れぬ凄みを実感させられるのでR。
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