Baby, that's what an echo is.

March 7, 2013 3:02 PM

R. Kelly explains Echo.
posted by hot soup girl (18 comments total)

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posted by andreaazure at 3:04 PM on March 7, 2013 [2 favorites]

Echo is one of the great achievements of pop culture. Truly.

It makes me picture R.Kelly having sex with like a camelbak on and some of those gel energy things marathon runners use, so he never has to stop.
posted by Lutoslawski at 3:07 PM on March 7, 2013 [5 favorites]

I hope he covers magnets next.
posted by found missing at 3:14 PM on March 7, 2013 [6 favorites]

Aziz Ansari has a great bit about this video in Dangerously Delicious which is available on Netflix Instant, and it is (predictably) really, really funny.

I am also a bit concerned about when R. Kelly says "If I say that I'm going to do something in a song, that's what it is." What does he mean? Does he do everything he raps about? ... I kind of... hope not.
posted by k8lin at 3:15 PM on March 7, 2013

Ohh..does he explain golden shower too?
posted by spicynuts at 3:19 PM on March 7, 2013 [1 favorite]

Say what you want about him, the man's an artist.
posted by 2bucksplus at 3:24 PM on March 7, 2013 [3 favorites]

Here, here 2bucksplus. For every asinine "I Believe I Can Fly" that makes you think he's another disposable R&B crooner, he does something as bizarrely genius as "Trapped In The Closet Chapters 1 - 5"

Unfortunately, for every "Trapped In The Closet Chapters 1 - 5" he does that convinces you he is some sort of bizarre genius, he does a "Trapped In The Closet Chapters 6 - 33", that convinces you he is another disposable R&B crooner.
posted by mediocre at 3:29 PM on March 7, 2013 [4 favorites]

See also, R. Kelly explains Lando Calrissian's complex and tumultuous love life.
posted by Naberius at 3:46 PM on March 7, 2013 [12 favorites]

I was introduced to "Echo" as "a song about how R. Kelly is going to have sex with a woman so vigorously that she will yodel," and that's absolutely what it is and it's perfect.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 3:51 PM on March 7, 2013 [1 favorite]

Naberius: "See also, R. Kelly explains Lando Calrissian's complex and tumultuous love life. "

Holy shit that was amazing
posted by Copronymus at 4:27 PM on March 7, 2013

I'd like to hear him explain "talent."
posted by moonbird at 5:12 PM on March 7, 2013

I heart R. Kelly. From last year's Write Me Back:

Feeling Single
When a Man Lies
Share My Love

The whole album is excellent.
posted by subdee at 6:15 PM on March 7, 2013 [1 favorite]

Drip drip drip.
posted by discopolo at 7:32 PM on March 7, 2013

he does a "Trapped In The Closet Chapters 6 - 33", that convinces you he is another disposable R&B crooner.

and then they take a left

and then another left
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 7:32 PM on March 7, 2013

Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce.
posted by cavalier at 4:09 AM on March 8, 2013

R Kelly wants to explain about echoes. Presumably he needs us to understand, so that we may understand the song better. It's possible to learn pretty anything from Youtube.
posted by molloy at 6:02 AM on March 8, 2013

Words cannot describe how absolutely critical seeing the DVD commentary of Trapped in the Closet is for one's development as a self-actualized human being.

Go buy it. Now.
posted by graphnerd at 6:16 AM on March 8, 2013 [1 favorite]

Damn, you know I have NEVER seen R. Kelly's material?! You awful people, once I saw the Lando Calrissian with R. Kelly it just tumbled into an avalanche of R. Kelly that just cannot stop. This is not helping me grade student papers, you know.
posted by jadepearl at 8:28 AM on March 8, 2013 [1 favorite]