Who can forget Kelis's recipe for Milkshake in 2003? The key ingredients were a quirky bass pulled together with lyrics just on the sweet side of pornographic.
It worked, being cute-ish and different. Three years on and lil' Kelis has taken mixing it up to a whole new level with a self-indulgent crash of R&B.
Kelis Was Here is an 18-track mish-mash of tunes that feel like they've been positioned according to the Celebrity Big Brother house order of famousness - it's completely random.
New single Bossy featuring Too Short is the highlight and Living Proof is streets ahead in the gorgeousness stakes.
But that's followed up with the triple-x-rated Blindfold Me. If it's designed to make you feel a bit, well, icky, then it works. Only the album doesn't.
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