Dance diva Kelly Rowland features on the cover of the June issue of Musicology magazine. Though a shot from the album / ‘Commander’ single packaging, there’s no doubt Ms. Kelly looks stunning!
Speaking of ‘Commander’, the ‘official’ video for the song has been confirmed to premiere on (Wednesday) June 9th. Indeed both Rowland and her camp have stated that the current video floating around is an early edit (which was illegally leaked). As many know, music videos are subject to a number of edits / revamps – with essential input from the director, artist, and label. In any case, roll on next Wednesday.
UPDATE: More ‘Musicology’ pics after the jump…
I love this shot, and thank god! that early edit was a hot mess!!!
But i am not expecting too much more.. So hopefully i really like the video once it is released!
GO kells! 🙂
She looks good. I hope the final version is a lot better because the leak looked cheap.
And Sam you wrote “indeed” one time too many!
SHE LOOKS GREAT AND IM HAPPY THAT THE COMMANDER VIDEO THAT WAS RELEASED WAS ONLY A ROUGH EDIT.
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I think the Commander video had a great direction when she first walked up from the smoke and proceeded on the runway we were off to a damn near epic start. It’s when the face off (stare downwith the two Kellys ) happened when the video went down a few notches I have no problem with the dancing I just think some parts could have been a bit cleaner. It would have been great if the video had a more faster pace choreo but it fit to me. I hate the white background scenes the battles scenes really put the video in it’s own lane. If she polishes it up really good then it can be a relly really great video.
and who ever said the video was boring is crazy it’s really memorable.
I thought the video was better than the last Rihanna and beyonce video’s and better than feedback.
I love this photo.
Kelly looks great, I hope the final version of video is better!!!!!!
I’m so rooting for this girl, but someone is still up to no good when it comes to her career. The hype will be over before you know it because that rough copy was on every blog. She looks lovely on the cover none the less. Also good move on her team to change the date after Gaga releases her video on Monday.
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heres a line from the song:
“With some light-skinned girls and some Kelly Rowlands”
haha liking that 😀
she’s a black woman and they’ve made her look mixed race ? smh……..
Kelly looks fierce and in command on this cover. It’s HOT!. I love the big curly afro. Go Kelly! Shake Them Haters Off is infectious too.
I think the Commander video was driven too much by the message of I Am in Charge, versus a fun, upbeat video of some great dance moves that a person can do in the club. I don’t think people want to do the rigid Vogue 2010 arm movements in a club. But who knows, some people would know how to make those movements look good.
Wow! I’m not a hater and I admit I don’t know how much a fan I am of hers these days, but I’m starting to think that we actually saw the official video and Kelly and her team are making some adjustments aka final edits to give us a better video. I’m not mad at Kelly though, I’d do the same(starting with the stare down, to the simplistic green screen, to the 2 Kelly’s mirroring dance number to the much needed breakdown at the end for a climax). If she includes those things I’m sure it will work out much better for her!
I LOVED THE VIDEO AND IF THERE IS A NEW ONE I KNOW I WILL LOVE IT. I LOVE KELLY ROWLAND. SHE’S HOT
Kelly looks so damm good. I love the song and I’m sure it will be a hit. And if it is another video I will love that also. You go Kelly!
i like this photo better for the single cover than the current one
KEV….. I def doubt she gone shoot another dance routine in a week….so the mirroring of the blk and red kelly proably will stay the same and the breakdown proably could be adding from the full routine…or maybe there is already one that may be something she could shoot and add…..But overall the video I saw was pretty good
So basically, what we saw on Monday or whatever was a trial balloon? That official, finished cut of the video should have been released this week. This whole week could have been about Kelly. Now she’s running the risk of getting lost in the shuffle because Alejandro comes out on Monday, and that’s what everyone will be talking about.
Look, there have already been numerous push backs and delays. What’s another week. Why not release it on the 14th?
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I thought the video was better than the last Rihanna and beyonce video’s and better than feedback.
@DM
I think you’re reaching. Both Rockstar 101 and Why Don’t You Love Me were much better than that Commander mess. Will the finished Commander video be better than Ri and Bey’s new videos? Maybe, but the video for Kelly’s flagship single should be better than the videos for Ri and Bey’s fourth and fifth singles. Kelly has a lot more riding on her new video than Ri and Bey have on theirs’.
@Reasonable Voice
Well it’s better than feedback I love Janet but Kellys video was little more interesting.
she is sooo pretty!!
beautiful !!!
Love it Love it Love it or commander is coming !!!! Love me some Kellz
Kelly looks very pretty. Go Girl!
First I am glad and hope they clean it up well! It was hot though. She is so s***!
@Reasonable Voice umm to say Why Don’t You Love ME was better than Commander. You are trippin! That s*** was lame! Sorry the song as well as the concept and the video was corny. Kelly will be fine! As long as her song is moving up them charts (Currently 18 on the Dance Charts and yes the matter too) we will have a hit. Hell she won a grammy for WLTO so who knows whats in her future. Folks lets be open minded. Just as others I was expecting more from her, but hell as cheap as MOST videos are today I can see whats going on. Either way she is hot #TEAM KELLY
Commander moves up to #10 from #18 on Billboard Dance Club chart. Go Kelly! Next stop, #1.
B**** DO IT OVER…YOU STINK, THE SONG STINK and the VIDEO STINKS. I STILL LOVE YOU BOO BOO.
i know where they were trying to do with the video cus its dance music like ida corr or september.di video no mek it simle as dat.
@ Los, I hear you… I do hope that breakdown is added( whether it’s a full routine from before or a newly added one). It’s truly in need of it.
@Khalil, Bey’s Why don’t you love me was the better video, but Kelly’s concept was good. She just need to work on her presence and the routine wasn’t what I had hoped for.
It did win points for the treatment, so I’ll say she did better than Janet there… But Feedback was still more entertaining with the movement. Kelly’s full out voguing felt a little dated. I like her simple coreo with the arm movement more… it just needed a build from that point.
I believe fhat video was the right video that leaked at first and after she received that awful backlash from it she and her camp are doing everything they can to re edit something else, heck I wouldnt doubt if Kelly isnt re shooting more scences as we speak to include the big dance battle in the ending that everyone is yapping about.
Yeah cuz Janet called an wanted her Feedback video back…
@ truly yours
I think you right…cuz was slated to be released on that day…and all of a sudden the “unfinished” version leaks…yeak okay Kelly…
Love these pictures. Kelly looks great!
YESS SHE IS GIVING ME WHAT I NEED AND MORE!!! THE VIDEO WAS HOT JUST NEED THOSE FINISHING TOUCHES DONE TO IT AND IT WILL BE A SMASH.. THESE PICS ARE GIVING ME A LIL JANET MIXED IN BUT NOT SWAGGER JACKING HER AT THE SAME TIME.
OK THEN… That shoot fits closer to the theme of COMMANDER once you see whats she’s wearing in FULL however from the tank-top and above it don’t makes sense at all… Kelly tsk tsk.
O yeah…. now that the video sucks they are saying its only an early edit…..
Just me again. Thanking everyone for the buzz about my little comment.
@Darren
You’re still an ugly f**.
@Darren
What part don’t you understand Ryan Seacrest?
KELLY GIRL YOU KNOW YOU’RE LYING!
How would someone get their hands on a rough edit less than 24 hours before the real video is supposed to drop? Girl please! What REALLY happened is that the real video got leaked and Kelly’s team felt stupid because the response to the video was so overwhelmingly negative. So they went back to the drawing board and are now scrambling to put a better video out
Kelly stans are so easily fooled. <3 By the way honey she looks cute from the neck up because that outfit looks like she got it out of a garbage can. And to the person who LIED and said Kelly's flop video was better than Beyonce and Rihanna's………..ahahhahaahah!
Next week no one will care about this video or Kelly Rowland. Once again her team set her up for failure.
@ Gucci
As much as I agree with you I don’t think thats true. Go watch that thing again. Anybody with eyes could see it wasn’t completely finished. It was clearly leaked. On purpose or not that was not meant to be the finished video and you know it. Wait til the official thing comes out and then judge. You guys are so critical of the poor girl.
BTW she looks excellent in those pictures above. She was clearly going for a throwback theme and it worked. The colors blend very nicely.
@Ghetto Fab
Girl you know I <3 you but I definitely think that a rough edit would have surfaced months before, not 24 hours before. You're right it doesn't look finished, but even if you look at the 300 previews of the video TGJ posted you can see that it all looks exactly like the parts in the video besides the green screen parts. All of the previews had that ugly white background.
We'll see how much different the "real" version is so i can judge fairly! Not a fan of those clothes but the afro is fierce in this pic Kelly
The fact of the matter is rather it was the full video or not….if she is pulling it back to attempt to make it better thats a good thing people in this world and esp this site are just negative for no reason and wonder why they have negativity in there own life….if she noticed her mistake is great she is trying to fix it …although that version wasnt that bad…and in the interview she did say it was suppose to be a dance break…
YASSSS KELLY GIRL GET DEM COVERS! DON’T LET BEY OR HER EVIL DADDY STOP YOU FROM BEING THE STAR YOU WERE BORN TO BE!
edited/unedited the video does have some good points….but for the most part the video is a hot ass mess…..the dancing is weak, the red leotard looks like she bought it from a £0.99p s** shop…….I just wish someone would kick Kellys ass into shape so she gets these things right……….urgh…..
@Gucci
Beyonce>>>Kelly>>>and THEN R******.
*walks on stage to te amo*
@Crank
Girl please, Kelly is millions of levels below Beyonce. Don’t front.
The cover is cute but the whole body shot is whack! I think she looks a little too photoshoppped!
Kelly looks silly trying to fix a broke video…it’s too late now…you gotta stand by that mess and act like it’s the bomb an don’t make that mistake again (there are plenty of bad videos out there)
why are people still thinking that the illegally leaked unfinished video is the final cut, when the video was leaked before the dated stated for it release, are you guys really that stupid or you just wanna b**** abt something????????
Why are people still thinking the leaked video was the final cut when it leak before the date set for its release. It was never officially released, it was illegally leaked.
Someone mention that they are trying to make her look mixed race but please remember black people(colored folks) are exactly that !!! a mixture of many different races, and ethnicity so lets not be ignorant people.
I am so loving these photos u better work bich!!
@ Yours truely, I have a feeling Kelly is doing dozens of Commander takes for the new/”unfinished edit” of the video as we speak also. I’m sure it’s 5,6,7,8 counts all day!
@Gucci, you have a solid point… It’s way too big of a coincidence for a leaked version to appear out of no where the day the actual official video was due to premiere. It’s really obvious that the negative remarks made them decide to go back and make a couple of changes. I’m sure if the hype didn’t build for Commander to be a single, it would have been a “teaser” and On and On would have been given a shot and if that didn’t work it would have been a “leak” and … on and on and etc!
@Danbofficial, you are so right that red get up is tacky! …and looks like it from out of a s** shop. Thanks for helping me find what it is that doesn’t work for the twin Kelly… I feel like it’s her own special take on the Xmen or something(but just not so hot and drag – like).
@Remmy, your right once you let the video loose you must pretend that you are thrilled with the end result and that it’s epic…MJ epic! If people figure that your not satisfied, it starts looking very desperate. She did jump in just in time to say that a few more edits are needed, but the fact that it won’t be ready until next week- hmmmm…
@Gucci
Hence
Beyonce>>>>Kelly.
Go play with your genetelia silly.
@Crank
Sweetie hang it up. You are so obsessed with me and Rihanna….but why you mad though?
@kev
Boy yes Kelly stans can play stupid all they want but it’s clear as day that that “unfinished” video would have been the real version if people actually liked it. Why do you think they pushed the new release back so far?
@RudeBoii
It came out less than 24 hours before the “official release”….but we’ve been seeing previews of the video for MONTHS. If an unedited cut existed it would have come out a little sooner don’t you think?
@remmy
you’re so right girl. Now she’s trying so hard to fix the video and she gave the stans a convenient excuse as to why the original sucked so of course they blindly accept it because they know that video was not up to par
@Gucci
Gwerl you stan for Rihman?
I like Rihanna and I don’t like Chris Brown’s music/voice. I’m a fan. I think people have tried to call me a stan because of that, but if they read all of my comments, they would see otherwise. But I will not deny the fact that Kelly is not in Rihanna or Beyonce’s league. Too bad.
Kelly>>>Rihman choking on chalk.
Death @ Rihman having her OWN league.
She can stay praying for that Gaga duet.
5 singles and hasn’t officially pulled 1 mill.
Beyonce>>>>>Kelly and Rihgoatna
#thatisall
“Why are people still thinking the leaked video was the final cut when it leak before the date set for its release. It was never officially released, it was illegally leaked.”
@RudeBoii
I don’t know if it’s unusual for a finished video to leak ahead of schedule. I know Rihanna’s videos tend to come out hours or a day early.
@RUDEBOII you clearly don’t comprehend what I’m saying !!! so let me chop things up.
KELLY ROWLAND IS A BLACK WOMAN.
HER SKIN HAS CLEARLY BEEN PHOTOSHOPPED TO LOOK lighter to appeal to a broader market………….which is a shame really.
I’m not even going to fully address the “Kelly Rowland >>> Rihanna” comments there Just laughable LOL LOL LOL………..
I needed a good laugh so thanks for the funny comments @ the dellusional Rowland Stans LOL LOL LOL LOL !!!!!
Kelly and Rihanna are absolutely talentless.
Kelly can dance circles around Rihman,
even on her bad days which is pretty fucken sad.
@ DANBOFFICIAL (AALIYAH/RIHANNA/XTINA) STAN)
U ppl r always finding & making up stuff…. her skin color looks the same to me in these photos. Maybe if u use your brain u will know it’s the lightening making her appear tht way. & often times when u have darker skin when taking photographs & doing videos lightening is very important so your audience can see your features. If I were to take a picture outside and the sun is shining really bright the photo will appear lighter. Pllllzzz ppl stfu and stop nagging for no danm reason! She looks very nice! I’m lovin the outfit & the boots, very new, trendy & diiferent! I haven’t seen a celebrity do this look yet. Great job Kelly!
IT IS HILARIOUS THAT YOU LAMES gucci ARE REALLY MAD!! WHAT ARE YOU TRYNA PROVE??
I DONT CARE FOR RIHANNA, DO YOU THINK IM GONNA WASTE MY TIME AND CLICK ON HER POST?? HELL NAW!!!! YOU ALL ARE KELLY FANS! GOTTA BE CUZ I CANT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD WASTE TIME OTHERWISE… OR JUST LAMES GO GET SOME BUSINESS!!! LAMESS
YES KELLY!! WERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRKKK!! 😀
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I love it, her style is so unique & I can’t wait till the final edit of “Commander” the video, because that leaked version sucked ASS! If i’m not mistaken thou I swear Rico love tweeted that video himself, so it makes me iffy if that was actually supposed to be a fake/leak, rather than the intended version. Idk, but whatev. Kelly is my girl
I love the pic she looks fierce the ediet verison i dont know it feels like the hype is over 4 me
@Crank
Okay sweetie. But maybe I missed something when has Kelly sold 1 mil? Better yet when was her last number 1 song. You know, like Rudeboy or Single Ladies.
I’ll wait……
Kelly has her own league too girl it’s called the league of flops that look like Trannys
I’m sorry Kelly stans but I don’t understand why one of you always tries to come at either Beyonce or Rihanna to defend Kelly? Why are you all so dam insecure! All I said was that the video is not an edit and everyone knows Kelly and her team are lying for the sake of damage control but since Lady Gaga is releasing her video next week as usual Kelly will get no shine.
that is all.
@ Gucci – I don’t get what you bitchin abt at this point I don’t think anybody really gives a f*** if that video is the final, the question is will the offically released version be any better. It doesn’t matter if the vid leaked 24hrs b4 the official was due, the fact that it was not released via her camp makes it unofficial finished or not. Beyonce reshoot her videos many times, all the time, so if kelly wanna take time and do tha too, I don’t see what the big deal is !!!
@ Danbofficial- she is still a chocolate sister, she didn’t pull a Beyonce& Rihanna and start getting white.
Why people comparing Riri to Kelly. They both have a record deals, make good music, one relies on talent (singing&dancing) the other sells s**, 1 is more sucessful in the US,guess what “s** sells” !!! they both have grammys etc. If you wanna compare, lets compare Rihanna’s success to here talent (lolZ), here success in relation to selling SeXXXXX
@Jhayestar
The big deal is that she set herself up for failure. You will see. Keep talking about Rihanna like it will help Kelly’s flop career.
the point is nobody ives a f***!! OMG @Gucci its so amazing how you sit here and hate on every post…dang you must not have no LIFE!! I guess it makes you feel better to TRY to see others down!! theres a nice spot in hell for you… 🙂
@Gucci
Silly drag.
Beyonce>>>>Kelly.
B**** you a stan.
I love those pictures and Iove the unfinished version of Commander video. The only bad reviews that video got was the same lame ass non singing Rihanna stans and the sad Bee stans who just dont want Kelly to succeed but guess what haters she will.
First Commander #1 in Poland as I type.
#10 on the dance charts.
@Gucci we all know you love Kelly you just wont admit it.
Hahahaha!!!! At your group you have on here now to help you hate on Kelly.
Kelly told me to tell all you haters on thatgrapejuice.net……She loves you too….Smooches!!
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