#Kelela Mizanekristos

[queerafricans]

Ethiopian-American artist Kelela has released her sophomore album “Raven”

[fangomusic]

Kelela, Raven

New music Wednesday

On her second album, released six years after her genre-defying debut, Kelela smoothly returns to a musical realm she once helped to create. By mixing her original brand of pop and r&b with dancehall, techno, and UK bass, Kelela evokes the club experience in this sumptuous and sublime production.

[mendingmusic]

Kelela & Elysia Crampton - Final Exam [2016]

"written & performed by Kelela Mizanekristos & Elysia Crampton Chuquimia with text written by Adrian Piper for Ashland Mines & DIS in 2016"

[silverfrapp]

Caroline Polachek hears a doorbell and closes the incognito tab with Kelela’s latest instagram post. She opens the front door and sees no one there, save for a parcel sitting on her doorstep. She picks it up, her eyes lighting up as she spots "K. Mizanekristos" in the 'sender' box. Hastily she carries it inside her apartment and cuts the packaging open, only to be greeted by the sight of a Sega Dreamcast.

[adelleandlaura4ever]

Truth or Dare

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T-shirt off
Tease me
It's getting dark, stay or leave
It's round 3, would you tell me your fantasy
Don't you take it back all I made
I can tell that you wanna take my body, my body baby tonight

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Truth or dare
We both know, how we're playing in
Truth or dare
Keep us in this moment
Truth or dare
You're in the position I put you
Truth or

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Nothing on
Just music, music
It's your turn to begin 
So put on, like I've never been touched before
Could you leave it back anymore
I'ma risk my hands you adore my body, my body baby tonight yeah

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Truth or dare
We both know, how we're playing in
Truth or dare
Keep us in this moment
Truth or dare
You're in the position I put you
You're in the position I put you
You're in the position I put you
Truth or

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Here comes another, day and it go under
You're my favorite lover
Take your time and get it right
Here comes another, day and it go under
You're my favorite lover
Take your time and get it right

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Truth or dare
Baby just leave with my love
From a secret
Secret place
Truth or dare
It's a game of truth or
It's game of truth or dare

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Game of truth or
Game of truth or dare

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It's a (it's my turn now)
Game of truth or (choose)
Game of truth or dare (a dare)

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Truth or
Truth or dare
(No there's no turning back now)
Truth or
It's a game of truth or dare (dare)
(You)

(Songwriter: Kelela Mizanekristos / Talay Riley / Asma Maroof / Will Boston)

❤️ ❤️ ❤️   ❤️ ❤️ ❤️  

My beautiful Lover!

Spending time with you is always so enjoyable. Sometimes sentimental and also a bit melancholic but mostly happy, beautiful and sometimes exuberant. With you I can do the biggest nonsense without having to fear that you laugh at me. And even if, then so that I can laugh along. And then there are also those moments when suddenly our panties disappear ... But that, remains our little secret.

I love you madly Adelle ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 🌈

 

@adelle4ever

@adelleandlaura4ever

[kraftwerk113]

Life´s too short for weird music - Tagesempfehlung 31.03.2023

Kelela / Contact

Kelela Mizanekristos lotet seit mittlerweile 10 Jahren den Grenzbereich zwischen zeitgenössischem RnB und Electronica aus. Die stärksten Momente hat Kelela immer dann, wenn sich die elektronische Seite durchsetzt. So geschehen unlängst im eleganten Contact vom aktuellen fünften Longplayer Raven. Contact hat auch diese kickenden House Beats, denen ich mich eigentlich nie entziehen kann.

[queerafricans]

Ethiopian-American artist Kelela has released a remix counterpart to her sophomore album and second remix album, "RAVE​:​N, The Remixes"

[suchananewsblog]

Kelela's Long-Awaited Return Is So Vulnerable It Scared Her

Language can be intuitive, starting somewhere in your gut before transfiguring into speech. Effective communication, however, is more complex. Feelings sometimes encompass more than words can offer, making for crossed wires and missed connections. Kelela Mizanekristos, the R&B visionary who performs under the name Kelela, is aware of her gifts in this regard. Her excellent new album Raven,…

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Reading this on mobile? Click here to view video SZA The Cut 4 Me mixtape will be released in September. We know in our bones there was a time when this kind of weird shit was on the radio, and I would like to recreate that moment. "Fuck the underground! I don't care about the underground, even if that's where I'm currently residing, sonically. I want people to be, like, 'What the fuck is going on?' If nobody likes the mixtape, I'll be pretty comfortable with that, honestly, because I finally got out what I meant to say."ĭespite aiming to make music to baffle people, Kelela – who has a jazz background, singing along to Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald – has every intention of becoming a mainstream success. Producers for the project included Girl Unit, Jam City, AraabMuzik and Nguzunguzu. "The music's not just weird, it's deliberately offputting," she adds. No wonder Kelela wants to go back to that future. "I'm coming from the zone of Faith Evans, but with weird production," says the Washington DC performer who has just recorded a mixtape for Fade to Mind, sister collective of the Night Slugs label. The Aaliyah/Timbaland brand of R&B was sonically audacious yet hugely commercial. Photograph: Shareif Ziyadat/FilmMagic Kelela Timbaland at the Kanye West album listening party in June. So while the world waits for a new Cassie album (she released her one official album in 2006, and despite numerous mooted followups, she has yet to put out a second, with just a mixtape issued earlier this year to satisfy her cult fan base), here are some of the superb young performers occupying the space with their gossamer, glitchy R&B. Aaliyah, Brandy, Ciara – these are the touchstones for their dreamy yet subtly dislocating dance music. More than anyone, though, it is Cassie Ventura, known simply as Cassie, who has become the figurehead for this new scene, perhaps because she is regarded as the last of an era (what Rihanna et al make is something quite different). SZA, Phlo Finister, Kid A, Jhené Aiko, Twigs, Jessy Lanza and Kelela have different influences and approaches, but what they share is a love of R&B at its most forward-looking and futuristic, the sort that was prevalent between the mid 90s and the mid-noughties, when Timbaland, the Neptunes and Rodney Jerkins were in their heyday.

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Over the past few years, male stars such as Drake, the Weeknd, the-Dream, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Autre Ne Veut and How to Dress Well, have stretched the definition of soul and taken the music to unexpected places. But now the pendulum is swinging back towards women. I remember where I was and what I was doing. I remember the day I first heard what Timbaland and Aaliyah did – that intersection of her pretty voice and his weird, resonant production. "I n the most direct way, we're trying to be post- Timbaland," says Kelela Mizanekristos, one of several new female artists operating in the realm of what could be termed experimental R&B.

[xandernotharris]

KELELA

by Timothy Saccenti for Hallucinogen (EP) album art and press photography

[yourdailyqueer]

Kelela Mizanekristos

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 6 June 1983

Ethnicity: African - Ethiopian

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician

[soldsoulglenx]

Kelela on the cover of W Magazine Korea.

[seasonaldepressionmp3]

I haven’t seen this on tumblr yet so I'm posting it. This is from Kelela’s instagram (@kelelam), captioned “had time today”. I need every white person to stop, read, and reblog this, as well as those of us who are not fully white but pass and benefit from white privilege. While we need to be giving those most effected by racism/colorism the space to express their thoughts and not talk over them, we also need to be having our own discussions about our part in dismantling this white supremacist system we live in, and that starts with acknowledging the privilege we have and the head start we got in life, and educating our own damn selves. We need to be doing better.

Transcript below for those who need it:

[ It’s been a couple of days. i first wanna send love and healing to Jussie Smollett. no one should experience what you did. this attack on you i an attack on all of us and I stand wit you against this and all hate crimes. 

some of us direct our energy toward “us” but I am in a place rn where I’m not looking at black people/POC to provide solutions because we ain’t the mf problem. white supremacy is the problem only y’all can change it. it’s not going to happen from our resistance alone. the whites will only relinquish power when white allies demand it. 

to the white “allies:” esp you quiet ones. or the ones who feel pretty secure in their progressiveness: get uncomfortable! i no longer want your silent agreement. WHITE SUPREMACY can only be dismantled when white people relinquish their power, and that means you can’t stand behind me like “YEAH THAT!” anymore. and yes! that is what you’ve been giving this whole time: “yeah, that.” smdh.

i’ve haD countless exchanges with white people rolling their eyes when i talk about the racism and hatrEd a black celebrity can still experience. i really wAnna name names, cuz i think that’s the only way y’all learN, but you know who you are...

but most of all i’m thinking about all the white people who’ve never argued that, the ones quietly agreeing with me rn: your silent nod is another feature of WHITE SUPREMACY, a system that can only be dismantled when YOU (the wanna-be ally) speak up. at this point, it seems futile to plead/demand change from the real ignorant whites, cuz black people/POC have never had their sympathy/compassion. they do have YOUR sympathy tho, so i’m turning to you!! y’all gotta be the ones! we need you to stop relying on the courage and endless ENERGY black and brown people put into pointing to injustice!!!!

your privilege allows for you to double tap and keep it pushing, but out of everyone, YOU should be doin THE ABSOLUTE MOST to dismantle the system that we’re expected to point to. you have to be the ones doing the rigorous reading on these systems you benefit from. after all, y’all have the inside scoop. you should have the most language and you should be initiating these conversations regularly! POC–esp black people–have gotten so good at articulating our feelings while experiencing trauma (as a means of survival)…and a byproduct is your lack of initiative and courageousness. y’all have got to do betta!

where are the white privilege book clubs, meetings, initiatives my friends are taking? where are the white scholars? where is the conference on whiteness? where is the school that is supposed to dismantle this system? who are the white leaders that are going to speak on this?! where are the progressive white dollars and why aren’t they focused on dismantling white supremacy? y’all need to confront the real threat you must feel if you see the injustice, feel terrible and freeze up when it comes to these convos. here’s what I need you to do today: 

1. take responsibility for educating yourself and your white friends. take over the job i’m doin for you rn. start a white privilege book club and get together with them to learn the real history of this country and get loud about those facts, look up POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME. use accurate words like rape, the word WHITE (this is the hardest one for a lot of you), murder, pillage, terrorize, systemic, etc…”fuckery” is a good colloquial one too…it describes the ever-transforming /morphing/evolving bullshit over time and how it always seems one step ahead of us. contextualize stereotypes of POC in conversations with other white people. study that shit and start to talk to your family. be willing to not let it go. be willing to be emotional as if your family were a threat to your friends of color. cuz they are. again, if you are white and not using the word white regularly, I REALLY DON’T HAVE TIME, cuz it means you can’t even say who we talkin bout. 

2.consider and then reconsider, the level of compassion to keep fuckin wit white people–including your quiet ass–given that history. think about what that requires on a daily basis from each friend of color you have. then think about how many times you’ve listened to them go in an exchange wit a white person. then think about how much language they have that you don’t. think about how quiet you get when we go in, think about how you shake your head but keep it pushing til the next time we’re sharing another terrible experience.

you been thinking someone is gonna create the thing that you can just join, but that’s just not how it’s gonna happen. it’s you and i’m not looking anywhere else anymore. 

 (brown hand giving a peace sign emoji)

(Kelela’s signature) ]