K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple)
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| Studio album by Mýa | ||||
| Released | April 13, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | October 2010—February 2011 | |||
| Genre | R&B · J-pop · dance-pop · hip hop · electronica | |||
| Length | 1:11:41 | |||
| Label | Manhattan · Planet 9 | |||
| Producer | Mýa Harrison (also exec.) · Michael Barney · Aaron Bennett · PJ Bianco · BigHeadDez · Carvin & Ivan · Fredro · Hardwork · Chuck Harmony · Loren Hill · John Ho · Daisuke Imai · Lil' Eddie · Bei Maejor · Duwayne Mills · Jeff Miyahara · Rich Shelton · Young Yonni | |||
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| Singles from K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple) | ||||
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| About.com |   |
| The Heights | (negative) |
| The Weekender |  |
K.I.S.S. (abbreviation of Keep It Sexy & Simple) is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Mýa. It is her second studio album to be released by Manhattan Recordings in Japan on April 20, 2011. Originally, scheduled for release April 6, 2011 (physically), however though the album's release was delayed for two weeks due to the unfortunate events surrounding the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster, which triggered the Fukushima I nuclear accidents, and temporarily immobilized packaging of the CD album. Despite these circumstances and minor setback K.I.S.S. eventually became available at retail and outlets April 20, 2011 and served as Harrison's third independently—released project through her own label imprint Planet 9. Although the record is a traditional R&B; pop album, Mýa was heavily—influenced by Japan's culture and experimented with Japan's J-pop sound to embrace a more worldwide appeal to attract the Japanese music market audience.
Production on K.I.S.S. was primarily handled by local Cleveland native producer Young Yonny with additional contributions from Japanese musicians Jeff Miyahara and Daisuke Imai, Chuck Harmony and longtime collaborators Carvin & Ivan. As always and just as she did before with her last 3 independently—released projects, Mýa took full creative control of the album. Harrison lent a hand in the songwriting process; co-writing several of the album's tracks with many different artists and songwriters and served as executive producer to the project. Guest features included Miami rapper Trina, international recording artist Iyaz, reggae star Sean Paul and ex Immature frontman Marques Houston. The album is a representation of Mýa's life today. "It's about being cool and drama-free. And everything I do reflects that," she said in a recent interview. "The people that I associate with, the circle that I keep is real simple and sometimes we think or we're trained to believe that you always have to have more, more, more to make ourselves feel happy or beautiful, but it's the other way around for me. Simplicity is sexy."
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