Wanderland
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| Studio album by Kelis | ||||
| Released | October 17, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 2000-2001 | |||
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| Length | 62:54 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | The Neptunes | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Blender | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
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| The Guardian | |
| NME | 6/10 |
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| Slant Magazine | |
Wanderland is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Kelis, released on October 17, 2001 by Virgin Records. The album's only single, "Young, Fresh n' New", peaked at number 32 on the UK Singles Chart.
According to Kelis, Virgin Records did not understand Wanderland. She subsequently left the label around the time of the album's European release, and as a result, the album was never released in her native United States.
The song "Flash Back" (retitled "Flashback") was included on Kelis' subsequent album Tasty, while a new version of "Popular Thug", which replaced Pusha T of Clipse with Nas, appears on The Neptunes' 2003 compilation album Clones.
Wanderland received generally positive reviews from music critics. The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis described the music as "clever, exhilarating and original" and praised the album as The Neptunes' "most adventurous work to date". Mark Bautz of Entertainment Weekly commented that "Kelis' brash blend of Curtis Mayfield soul, techno-Zeppelin funk, Jobim-lite bossa nova, and ultrasmooth R&B shows a more coherent artistry than many recent boundary-busting experiments." Rupert Howe of Blender found that "[t]he best thing about Wanderland is that [Kelis] seems finally to have begun celebrating her eccentricities", adding, "Aside from the idiosyncratic lyrics [...] she switchbacks from parodying '70s mack-stylin' (the Funkadelic 'Daddy') to an '80s soul croon ('Scared Money')." At entertainment.ie, Andrew Lynch commended Kelis' "aggressive vocal delivery and intriguing, if sometimes confusing lyrical imagery", while calling the album itself "[b]rilliantly produced" and "strikingly original".
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