Kelis Calls Her New Album “Food”
About six years ago, Kelis Rogers – one of the more eccentric and compelling R&B singers out there – retrained as a saucier at the just-so Cordon Bleu academy. Kelis’s culinary fetish had been foreshadowed for years. One of her standout albums was called “Tasty”; one of its biggest hits was “Milkshake.” At the time, Kelis’s motivation in changing career seemed to be a protracted label dispute. But by 2010 she was singing again, replacing the freaky modernism of her early, Neptunes-produced hits such as “Caught Out There” with a neon-lit club venture, Flesh Tone, produced in part by David Guetta. Then it was back to being a single mom, and more catering. R&B’s loss seemed to be soul food’s gain. Not only does Kelis now have her own range of specialist sauces, Feast, she has piloted her own TV cooking show, “Saucy & Sweet.” Her new album is called “Food.”
