Friday, June 20, 2008

Modern Dance Meets R. Kelly Meets Outter Space [The Best Thing On the Internet You'll See All Day]

...We now interrupt your previously scheduled 'Roo Recap to bring you this nugget of internet joy...

Those familiar with DivMo--or me--know of my great love of the collected works of R. Kelly. I don't have much to say about his recent acquittal except I didn't really follow it and sex with children is bad. I don't really care for R. Kelly the man as much as I care for R. Kelly's body of work. I am happy that future chapters of Trapped in the Closet will be made and I'm really keeping my fingers crossed that they will include space travel and aliens. Because really, Kelly has nowhere to go from this series but up and deeper into the black hole of his own brilliance.

As great as TitC is (lol "tit-see"), there is one Kelly song that eclipses it in my heart: Sex Planet. I loved it so much, DivMo used to have it's own "Sex Planet" tag, until in a fit of tidiness it got jettisoned. I even designed my first tattoo based on its themes.

Given my love, you can imagine the sheer head exploding joy I experienced upon finding the following clip of a modern dance troupe's interpretation of this lyrical masterpiece.



They might not win any dancing awards, but they have won a place in my heart. (And seats on my rocketship to planet Uranus.)

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