Kelly no doubt learned a lot of what he knows about constructing seriously sensual R&B from the Isley Brothers, and in recent years he has repaid the debt, producing songs like their career-rejuvenating 2001 hit, ''Contagious.'' The velvet-voiced Ronald Isley turns up on ''Showdown,'' portraying, as he did on ''Contagious,'' the character of the star-crossed love gangster Mr. (Note to Kelly: Although we're laymen, this doesn't strike us as a particularly sturdy legal defense.) ''You Made Me Love You,'' a fine mix of gospel and blues that recalls Robert Cray, straight-facedly posits the notion that women and their wily ways can force a man to do wild and crazy things. Yet sometimes Kelly's take on romance is almost comically deluded. ''Heart of a Woman'' is a paean to the glories of the fairer sex. ''Forever,'' replete with mournful, dewy harmonies, finds him proposing marriage to that special someone, offering promises of a white picket fence and a house in the suburbs. Lest you mistake him for an unredeemed erotomaniac, Kelly also has his romantic side. ''Get in my bed/Makin' sounds/Me on top of you/Rollin' around.'' On ''Imagine That,'' which starts out slow and builds to a dramatic climax, Kelly works himself into a characteristically lustful lather: ''Imagine the opportunity/You and me sharing sexual energy.'' Next to this guy, Barry White is a prude. ''Oooh, it's unbelievable how your body feels next to mine,'' he coos. ''Loveland,'' the title track of a six-song bonus CD included with "Factory," is prime Kelly, seemingly designed expressly for the purpose of seduction. On ''Step in the Name of Love (Remix),'' he calls himself ''the pied piper of R&B,'' and if hot buttered soul floats your boat, he's the man to follow.
It's largely a collection of the sort of steamy, silky slow jams at which Kelly - who wrote, produced, and arranged the whole shebang - has always excelled. The most striking thing about ''Factory'' is its let's-get-down-to-freaky-business-as-usual vibe. Be thankful he didn't have the brass to cover ''Brand New Key,'' Melanie's naughty 1971 nursery rhyme. Have you ever driven a stick, babe?/You'll be screaming every time we shift them gears, babe.'' Yeah, and we'll bet he can drive all night, too.
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His new single, ''Ignition,'' is full of the most brazen automotive sexual metaphors imaginable: ''Girl, please let me stick my key in your ignition. You might think that under the circumstances Kelly would opt to soft-pedal the pillow talk, but he's as randy as ever. Rightly or wrongly, the hair-raising charges regarding the ''Bump N' Grind'' star's purported sexual activity with an underage girl - not to mention a certain X-rated black-market video - have served to make his trademark R&B-lothario persona seem more than a little creepy. (Entertainment Weekly) - Is it possible to listen to ''Chocolate Factory,'' R.
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