''Oooh, it's unbelievable how your body feels next to mine,'' he coos. ''Loveland,'' the title track of a six-song bonus CD included with "Factory," is prime Kelly, seemingly designed expressly for the purpose of seduction. On ''Step in the Name of Love (Remix),'' he calls himself ''the pied piper of R&B,'' and if hot buttered soul floats your boat, he's the man to follow.
It's largely a collection of the sort of steamy, silky slow jams at which Kelly - who wrote, produced, and arranged the whole shebang - has always excelled. The most striking thing about ''Factory'' is its let's-get-down-to-freaky-business-as-usual vibe.
Be thankful he didn't have the brass to cover ''Brand New Key,'' Melanie's naughty 1971 nursery rhyme. Have you ever driven a stick, babe?/You'll be screaming every time we shift them gears, babe.'' Yeah, and we'll bet he can drive all night, too. His new single, ''Ignition,'' is full of the most brazen automotive sexual metaphors imaginable: ''Girl, please let me stick my key in your ignition. You might think that under the circumstances Kelly would opt to soft-pedal the pillow talk, but he's as randy as ever. Rightly or wrongly, the hair-raising charges regarding the ''Bump N' Grind'' star's purported sexual activity with an underage girl - not to mention a certain X-rated black-market video - have served to make his trademark R&B-lothario persona seem more than a little creepy.
(Entertainment Weekly) - Is it possible to listen to ''Chocolate Factory,'' R. But as a singer, songwriter and producer, he’s at the top of his game.Story: R. Factory‘s title track bounces on a hypnotic pulse and an instantly memorable hook, while “You Made Me Love You” borrows a guitar lick - and a deep Southern churchiness - from Al Green’s “Love and Happiness.” It remains to be seen if Kelly can regain his chart-busting status - or even salvage his career. The singer has backed off some of his porn-fantasy corniness and eased into a confident, soulful groove that runs consistently through the album and its equally appealing six-song bonus CD, Loveland. That’s too bad, because Chocolate Factory ranks among the best work of his career. Kelly’s problems start less than thirty seconds into Chocolate Factory, when he coos, “Anything you want/You just come to daddy.” From other R&B lovemen, that would be boilerplate pillow talk, but allegations of participating in child pornography against Kelly provide a distorting filter through which his music will be heard for years to come.
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