Kelis teamed up with her label boss will.i.am for this performance of “Acapella” from her forthcoming Flesh Tone album last night (April 6). Kimmel’s booking policy isn’t particularly adventurous, so this is about as outré as his show gets—with stuffed tigers wearing jewelry on stage, men decked in skeleton body paint pounding on drums, and Kelis sprouting feathers from a headdress.
The song veers toward Giorgio Moroder-esuqe disco patterns, perfectly suiting Kelis’ oddball career path, including impenetrable lyrics that mirror the ambiguity of “my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard”—this time we get “before you, my whole life was acapella.” Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what that means?
