Kelly Rowland drifted into raunchy territory during her Saturday performance at Twin Cities Pride.
I've always thought of this Destiny's Child alum as being one of the classy members of that trio, although she was singing about jelly and being too "Bootylicious" along with Michelle Williams and Beyoncé. On Friday, for example, Rowland seemed slightly pious when she posted a complimentary video on Twitter about the crooning abilities of Marvin Winans (the gospel singer and pastor who was seen looking bored on CNN while waiting his turn to give a eulogy at Whitney Houston's funeral).
But Rowland praised her naughtier nature Saturday when she referred to herself as "a bit of a pervert" around her extremely fit male dancers.
Probably not a good idea to call yourself a pervert the day after disgraced former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty 45 times. Maybe she doesn't know many words, I thought. My pal Shaun LaBelle, whose production company shoots the TC Pride TV commercials and who arranged for me to interview Rowland, said Jody Watley might have made the point about the dancers more subtly by saying Mmmm. LaBelle was Watley's bass player.
Well, there was nothing subtle about this next attention-grabbing move.
Rowland was wearing black ankle boots, a textured bra top and short-shorts when she took the microphone and suggestively twirled it in front of her short-shorts. Even after examining the lyrics Rowland wrote for sexually charged songs such as "Motivation," "Work" and "Like This," the Pride visual was still stupefying.
Nothing this alarming happened during the interview I videotaped with Rowland that will run Sunday. But we did have a don't "Say My Name" moment. Can you guess whose name was not to be spoken?
Thanks, but no thanksAnthony Polski was up on a ladder hanging the rainbow flag in front of his dad's Market Bar-B-Que on Nicollet Avenue last week when he attracted compliments.