![]() And once he entered his raunchy-absurdist phase in the mid-aughts, even his most studious imitators - The-Dream, Trey Songz - only seemed to prove that there would never be another singer as odd, agile or funny as R. "Uniqueness." That had to be it, right? It wasn't that R. Why had it been so hard for me to give up on this music? I kept coming back to the word that Marcia had plugged into my review. Should we be doing this? It had been seven years since Marcia's edit, but I had finally reached "no." The last time I put Kelly's name in print was in 2014. I slowly stopped citing his influence on other music in my writing, and I eventually stopped typing his name altogether. By 2010, I had stopped attending Kelly's concerts and I refrained from reviewing his albums. ![]() Kelly had since been acquitted of those child pornography charges, and that was good enough for me to call the concert a "wonderful" showing from the man behind "one of the greatest songbooks in the history of R&B."īut Marcia's voice never went away. She was in my head during a concert review I wrote in 2009 - but unfortunately, I was only half-listening to her. In the years that followed, Marcia appeared on my shoulder every time I wrote about R. Kelly's Birthday celebration at Time Restaurant on Januin Atlanta, Georgia. ![]()
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