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  • The Daily Awesome – January 6, 2010: Kelly Rowland “Rose Colored Glasses”

    Kelly Rowland ”Rose Colored Glasses”
    You gotta root for Kelly Rowland, having grown up almost literally in Beyonce’s shadow, as the perennial #2 of Destiny’s Child. Though she’s already put out two solo albums, and scored a couple of minor hits, she hasn’t put out that definitive record yet, and you have to wonder just how much her career has been helped or hindered by her association with longtime manager (and Beyonce’s dad) Mathew Knowles – an association that finally ended in 2009.

    While Rowland, who turns 30 in February, is still readying her third album – her first for UniversalMotown – for release later this year, she put out a cluster of great singles in 2010, including “Commander”, with frequent collaborator David Guetta, and the sassy, Ne-Yo co-penned “Grown Woman”.

    But my favorite of the bunch so far is “Rose Colored Glasses”, a grand, heart-wounded ballad about a relationship that looks good on the outside, but is rotting from within. Co-written by Ester Dean and Swedish pop mastermind Dr. Luke – the man who gave us Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite” and virtually the entire Ke$ha oeuvre – it’s an uncharacteristically emotionally raw song that, both in terms of sound and subject matter, seems like it might have been intended for Rihanna. But, let there be no doubt, Rowland owns this song, delivering it with enviable strength, stunning elegance, and an honesty devoid of self-pity that she projects both outward and inward, telling herself as much as she’s telling the listener: Everything seems amazing when you’re looking through rose colored glasses – Take ’em off.

  • Is Kelly Rowland’s Body Too Boobylicious For You, Baby?

    This has absolutely nothing to do with music specifically, and everything to do with boobies. Specifically, the breasts of former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland.
    The 27-year old singer (who I think is better looking than Beyonce and a better singer to boot-so there!!) admitted that she went under the knife in 2007, increasing her chest size from an A to a B cup-specifically citing an instance in which she couldn’t fit into a particular House of Dereon top (way to promote your girl’s clothing line, Kelly). I gotta say that bothered me a little bit just because Kelly was DAMN fine as it was, and it didn’t seem like she had any, um…issues with the chest areas before.
    Anyway, I’m sure the fact that yet another pop singer has had breast surgery will raise the eyebrows of women who believe that that type of surgery is either evident of self-hating or sets a bad example for young girls (hey, it’s her own money…she can do what the hell she wants). Me? I just want the girl to make some good music. That “Ms. Kelly” album was fucking horrid.
    Besides, I like boobies. They’re fun to play with (amazing what you can get away with when you’re gay…just saying).
    At any rate, here’s a link to Kelly’s new video, which features Travie (Travis McCoy) from Gym Class Heroes, a guilty pleasure of mine. Not sure where this song comes from, but it beats anything on her last album. Maybe they’re trying to lump her back into that “alternative” vibe that she had on her first solo album.