--- description: The first single from the siren's upcoming LP Food gets a jazzy video title: Kelis "Jerk Ribs" Video: Watch image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte702dd99d1c74ff3/698682b755a8599b44a7f6a9/kelis-jerk-ribs.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Kelis Dresses Up, Gets Down in "Jerk Ribs" Video: Premiere  by [Sam Lansky](/author/sam-lansky/)  ## Sam Lansky Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 18, 2014 4:00 PM CUT   by [Sam Lansky](/author/sam-lansky/)  ## Sam Lansky Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 18, 2014 4:00 PM CUT Kelis has gone through a few incarnations over the course of her 15-year career. As Pharrell’s muse, she made strange, funky pop songs like “Milkshake” that took over American radio; she was more forceful still with clanging, dissonant R&B tracks like “Bossy”; then, she transformed into a spaced-out electrohouse diva on her last album, 2010’s _Flesh Tone_, which saw her topping the dance charts and touring with Swedish pop pixie Robyn. But after spending several years training as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu, she’s marrying her two loves — music and food — on a new album called (what else?) _Food_. The first single, “Jerk Ribs,” is a rootsy sliver of funk-lite produced by TV On the Radio’s Dave Sitek, pairing her husky vocals with a toe-tapping backbeat and shimmering chorus; the horns are the loudest thing here. The video is as eclectic and visually far-flung as the song itself, a melange of lush and gritty textures: Kelis pouts and preens in different photo shoots and performs at a garden party, but she’s always being tended to by a makeup artist or coached by a photographer. In this video, as with cooking, it’s less about the finished product and more about the process. “This song is the cornerstone of my album,” Kelis told TIME. “So I wanted the video to look like my life, my love — back to the beginning.” Watch the world premiere of the “Jerk Ribs” video up top. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/8262/kelis-jerk-ribs-video-premiere/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/8262/kelis-jerk-ribs-video-premiere/"},"headline":"Kelis Dresses Up, Gets Down in \"Jerk Ribs\" Video: Premiere","datePublished":"2014-02-18T16:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:25:45.279Z","description":"The first single from the siren's upcoming LP Food gets a jazzy video","url":"https://time.com/8262/kelis-jerk-ribs-video-premiere/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte702dd99d1c74ff3/698682b755a8599b44a7f6a9/kelis-jerk-ribs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Lansky","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-lansky/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte702dd99d1c74ff3/698682b755a8599b44a7f6a9/kelis-jerk-ribs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"kelis-jerk-ribs","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/8262/kelis-jerk-ribs-video-premiere/","name":"Kelis Dresses Up, Gets Down in \"Jerk Ribs\" Video: Premiere"}}]}] ```