I Believe I Can Cry

[Satchmo Distel]

R Kelly gets tearful: the Kavanaugh technique:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ions-interview

[Incandenza]

The behind-the-scenes camera:

https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1103271779814957056

Look how calm Gayle King stayed while he is standing in front of her and ranting and waving his arms while not acknowledging her at all. The end of the clip is sickening.

[G-Man]

I don't now much about Gayle King, but she's superb in this clip. "It sounds like you're playing the victim here", is is brave thing to say to a clearly disturbed man who is having a meltdown.

[Incandenza]

She's most famous for being Oprah's BFF, but I know she's been on the CBS morning show for a while now and has a TV background.

[3 Colours Red]

"Have you ever had sex with anyone under the age of 17?"

"No. No."

Well, he married Aaliyah when she was 15 so I don't think it's much of a stretch to call bullshit on that one.

[ursus arctos]

[URL]https://twitter.com/npr/status/1103418941609836544?s=21[/URL]

[Jah Womble]

Christ, he is so unconvincing. What's astonishing to me is that he's somehow made it to 2019 still a free man.

[3 Colours Red]

Yeah, colour me equally surprised - when Trapped In The Closet is only the 42,397th worst crime you've ever committed...

[Jah Womble]

(I'm not sure what 'Trapped in the Closet' is, but given the perpetrator I think I'll keep it that way...)

[Wouter D]

It's famous enough to receive the Weird Al parody treatment, but yeah, I don't think you need the original(s).

[Ginger Yellow]

And an Adam & Joe parody. And a South Park episode.

[Jah Womble]

I've never paid much attention to Kelly's music, I'm afraid.

The only tracks I think I'd recognise now are Bump 'n' Grind and the one that inspired this thread's title.

[Ginger Yellow]

Nor have I, but Trapped in the Closet was a weird enough thing (especially given that even then most people suspected he was a wrong 'un) that it became a much broader pop culture phenomenon.

[3 Colours Red]

33 chapter hip-hop opera. Even more batshit than it sounds. I'll just leave it at that.

[Incandenza]

I've never paid much attention to Kelly's music, I'm afraid.

The only tracks I think I'd recognise now are Bump 'n' Grind and the one that inspired this thread's title.

Ignition (Remix) is a stone cold classic, unfortunately.

[diggedy derek]

Trapped In The Closet was really properly strange, to the degree where it seemed to be subverting many of the macho stereotypes you'd associate with R Kelly. However, turns out he may be a sexual predator and that like many of those he's good at generating wild counter narratives around himself.

[Jah Womble]

Clearly not very good at doing so in interview, however...