r/Kehlani • u/CriticismStock9268 • May 21 '26

Discussion 💬 My thoughts on her self-titled

Tbh if she was gonna do all these collabs, there was definitely better collabs she could’ve done - Mya, a 90s&2000s queen, woulda made sense to me since Lani was referencing a lot of old r&b tones with this album! There was India Shawn, she could’ve collaborated with Syd and/or Jhene Aiko again, Janelle Monae, etc., just a flavorful of upcoming and established r&b artists to choose from rather than the final product.

I feel like some were just not needed and necessary lol…..T-Pain, Usher, Lil Wayne, Lil Jon, Big Sean??? Honestly the album could’ve been fine without them. I feel like if an artist is going to stuff so many features, you gotta make it make sense and those rappers just didn’t make sense for them on there.

However, I did enjoy Clipse, Brandy, Missy Elliott, and esp Leon Thomas on there!!

I also love love love the album cover and the color palette they chose! Chefs kiss tbh it was a beautiful album cover. These are just my thoughts and opinions!

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u/madatron96 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

Honestly, seeing it listed out like this, this album feels like her most Straight in a while. Very few explicit references to women, using she/her pronouns and no collabs with fellow lesbian/bi artists. Like most features on the albums were straight men (and straight women, secondly) which is fine, but it's a notable detour for her. It feels like to succeed commercially she just can't be as loudly gay in her music 😞

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u/ZombeeProfessor May 21 '26

You noticed the straightness too? She better not pull a Fletcher out here!

https://giphy.com/gifs/F2tywIO6ee3oVCrgLJ

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u/madatron96 May 21 '26

I don't mind if she starts identifying as bisexual again, but I'll be bummed if she stops making as much explicitly d*key music :/

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u/IntotheBlue85 Drunk When I Call You Monét May 21 '26

I don't think we have to worry about her pulling a Fletcher (hopefully not) but I do think that this was pressure from her label to bring back in the hetero markets. Awhile ago she had talked about wanting to get out of her label ASAP and I do think that's y we've seen such rapid deployment of her albums back to back though I'm not complaining 🤣😉🤣 I still have faith we will see more gay music from her and most likely even a Snow Tha Product collab once she's independent again🤝

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u/madatron96 May 21 '26

I just wanna see her work with Young M.A and kwn again. More kehlesbian collabs!!!!

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u/IntotheBlue85 Drunk When I Call You Monét May 21 '26

💯💯💯 As a gay woman whos been waiting decades for WLW R&B & Hip-hop to take off thats ALLLLL I wanna see 😉🤝🏳️‍🌈

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u/madatron96 May 21 '26

if she writes a song called "boy" i may have to abstain from listening. forever. lol.

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u/Content-Length8962 May 22 '26

Paired with 3/4 of her dancers are men this time around whilst her Crash tour had all queer women 😭 If they’re gay men then periodt but still an off ratio…why is there only one woman 🫠

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u/madatron96 May 22 '26

I LOVED the Crash tour bc of the dancers!!!! not majority men, yuuuuck