Richard X Feat Kelis - Finest Dreams

(Virgin - August 2003)
Produced by Richard X

Finest Dreams
Finest Dreams Part Two
Music For An Imaginary Mobile Phone Commercial

Recorded post Kelis' Wanderland and pre Milkshake and her rightful return to power.


Press Release =

Hello

My name is Richard X.

My last single, "Being Nobody" with my good friends Liberty X was a number three hit recently. It would have been good if it had beaten Misteeq and Gareth Gates but life goes on. At least people have something else to talk to me about now other than the Sugababes "Freak Like Me", which I also produced many moons ago.

I have been encouraged to make another single and here it is. It features my pen pal Kelis who you may know from her albums "Kaliedoscope" and "Wanderland" and loads of other great records. This track is called Finest Dreams. Again, I've saved some money by doing the b-side remix myself, which i think has come out well. Some people may get a bonus track "Music for an imaginary mobile phone commercial" which proves there is such a thing as a free lunch.

I've also finished my album called "Richard X presents his X-factor Volume One" which has this single on it, the last one, the Sugababes one and lots of others which would all be hits if there was any justice in this god-forsaken world.

All the best for now, and thanks

Rich


DOTMUSIC REVIEW Richard X - ''Finest Dreams feat. Kelis''

This reeks of Nathan fu**ing Barley. It really does. A little like dance music's answer to the suffocating retro cliche in which the four-man guitar band format is doomed to repeat to fade, Richard X is mind-numbingly retrogressive.
Cue Kelis, never one to shy away from the kind of music that's inspired by the catwalk. It's why her last album struggled under the weight of knowingly day-glo Eighties reference and finally sank without trace despite the best efforts of the Neptunes.
Listen to this whilst relaxing in a concrete bar with plasma screens flashing images of war knowingly spliced with retro 70s porn, wearing a fluorescent stripped T-shirt and fiddling with the latest and most breathtakingly expensive designer electronic gadget.

by James Poletti

James was later destroyed

Links

• Finest Dreams on Youtube