Sorry, no write up today, just bask in the awesomeness of Chapter 3 of R Kelly’s masterpiece “Trapped in the Closet”
Exploring an adulterous Homosexual relationship with a married black Pastor through song? Genius.
Some people like Trapt in the Closet for it’s music and the story it tells. Most people like Trapt in the Closet for the unintentional comedy that it provides. Other people hate Trapped in the Closet because it’s clichéd and insipid even though many people claim it to be original and inspired. I like it because it is bringing Opera and Musical theater back to its roots. Amongst and for the people!
Yes Opera. The vastly convoluted and nonsensical plot of R Kelly’s masterpiece is equivalent to any version of The Barber of Seville or the Marriage of Figaro. It’s tackiness and badly written plotting and ultra simple melodies and musical themes lie at the heart of four hundred years of working man musicals and proletarian plays. Burn down Broadway and take off the powdered wigs. All we need is one man with one tune and reams and reams of ludicrous rhymes.
Stats up to and including Chapter 2,
Characters: 4
Number of times the word closet has been said: 11
Infidelities revealed: 2
Times a Gun has been pulled: 1
Homosexuals: 1.5
Midgets: 0
I can say it without hyperbole that TN is now the most excited person/blogger/meatpie in the world. And do you know why? This monday work on part thirteen of R Kelly’s exquisite transcendental genre busting Opera Trapped in the Closet will begin.
In c-c-c-celebration Gluemeat will be doing a 12 part revisit to each of the previous chapters, delving deeper into my academic and artistic obsession with this Post-Modern work of art.
Without further ado I present to you part one of R Kelly’s Trapt in the Closet
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