They say airing your dirty laundry in public is uncouth, but when your entire life is in the spotlight, they're bound to see it anyway. On her brand-new single released on Wednesday (May 15), Kelly Rowland unapologetically is putting everything on the clothesline for the entire world to see -- even the delicates, from her acknowledged jealousy of Beyoncé to an abusive relationship that still seems to haunt her.
And from the sounds of "Dirty Laundry," a collaboration with The-Dream off Rowland's upcoming Talk a Good Game album, she's got an awfully heavy load. It's everything the 32-year-old has kept in for 10 years in the form of smooth R&B — with each chapter separated by melancholy coos that "when you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out/ When you make pain look this good, it never wears out."
"When my sister was onstage, killing it like a mother----er / I was enraged, feeling it like a mother---er," Rowland sings in chapter one. If it wasn't clear that that "sister" is Kelly's former Destiny's Child comrade, she makes it perfectly crystal when she refers to Bey's rapid rise to fame after the trio's 2001 album. And while the spotlight shone so brightly on the Queen-to-be, Kelly was in the dark throes of an abusive relationship. "Post-Survivor she's on fire, but who wants to hear my bullsh--? Meanwhile this n---a is putting his hands on me / I swear y'all don't know the half of this industry."
"I was battered. He's hitting the window like it was me, until it ...
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