On the internet, you will find a learned essay that compares the first volume to the work of Stendhal and US poet John Ashberry, and invokes the Renaissance concept of sprezzatura - behaviour that "conceals art and presents what is done and said as if it were done without effort and virtually without thought". Trapped in the Closet, chapter one, reached No 22 in the US charts, but when Kelly released video versions, with actors lip-synching to his vocals, it attracted a cult audience including the kind of people not usually noted for their love of Kelly's libidinous brand of R&B. Each of its 12 "episodes" used precisely the same backing music, but it was difficult to pay attention to anything other than the wildly convoluted plot, which has so far involved an outbreak of mass cuckoldry, a shooting, the outing of a gay pastor and a dwarf stripper called Big Man. It began in 2005 as a peculiar footnote amid the R&B singer's torrential output, a series of songs forming a "musical soap opera" that he likened to Desperate Housewives.
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