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"Scream" is a song performed by American recording artist Kelis, taken from her fifth studio album, Flesh Tone. It will be released as the album's third single by will.i.am music to coincide with the European leg of the singer's All Hearts tour.[1]
"Scream" is an synthpop[2] and electro-dance[3] song with electro-rap[4] and house music[5] elements. It was written by Kelis, Jean Baptiste, David Guetta and Roman de Garcez. The production contains a "blade of blues melody [that] slices in atop a rinky-dink sampled piano." It also has "lots of sonic confusingnes" as the "song evaportates in the middle ... then reassembles and feeds into a stacatto spoken-word electroclash midsection."[2] Many of the critics stated how the song has split sections, sometimes like "a beat-free beach house piano-based meditation"[3][5] whilst at other times, sounding like "haughty electroclash ingenue".[3] The verses are mainly house music whilst the choruses are electronica and have rap music-stylings.[4]
Pitchfork Media's Jess Harvell gave the song a mixed review saying "All of this subgenre synthesizing is a bit shameless. It's also frequently great, at least if you're already enamored with big, bright, synthetic dance music."[3] However Sal Cinquenmani of Slant Magazine liked the song because it represented Kelis well. "another Guetta track, ['Scream'] comes closest to capturing the long-established anti-establishment bent of Kelis's work".[6] Sarag of BBC Music agreed compared the song to works by Dutch house DJ Fedde Le Grand and, said the overal effect was "Wow!".[5]
"Scream" was recorded at 'Casa de Kelis' and mixed at 'Gum Prod Studio' in Paris.[7]