Wanderland

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Wanderland

Studio album by Kelis
Released	October 29, 2001
Genre	R&B
Length	62:53
Label	Star Trak Entertainment, Virgin Records
Producer(s)	The Neptunes
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Kelis chronology
Kaleidoscope (1999)	Wanderland (2001)	Tasty (2003)

Wanderland is the second album by R&B artist Kelis, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music).

Kelis was living in Europe at the time and it was first released in Europe. The album was more experimental than the previous album and was a modest success chart-wise. According to Kelis, her American record company Virgin at the time did not like the Wanderland album. The record executives at Virgin felt the album material didn't have a strong enough singles and therefore did not release in the United States. [1] Kelis did return to the United States later on where she fell in love with and later married Nas.

The album only spawned one single, "Young, Fresh n' New", which became her third solo top 40 hit in the UK. Unfortunately though, the single was not a particularly big hit elsewhere.

Despite the album only being a moderate success, two tracks featured on Wanderland went on to be used elsewhere. "Flash Back" (re-titled "Flashback") was featured on her third album Tasty and a new version of "Popular Thug", which replaced Pusha T from The Clipse with Nas, was featured on The Neptunes' album The Neptunes Presents... Clones.

1 Personnel
2 Track listing
3 Singles
4 Production
5 Charts

[edit] Personnel

Kelis	vocals
Chad Hugo	Instrumentation
Pharrell Williams	Instrumentation

[edit] Track listing

#	Title	Written by	Length
1.	"Intro"	Hugo, Rogers, Williams	1:11
2.	"Young, Fresh n' New"	Hugo, Rogers, Williams	4:37
3.	"Flash Back"	Hugo, Rogers, Williams	3:26
4.	"Popular Thug" (featuring Pusha T)	Hugo, Thornton, Williams	4:13
5.	"Daddy" (featuring Malice)	Hugo, Thornton, Williams	3:50
6.	"Scared Money"	Hugo, Rogers, Williams	4:00
7.	"Shooting Stars"	Hugo, Rogers, Williams	6:18
8.	"Digital World" (featuring Roscoe)	Hugo, Porter, Williams	4:25
9.	"Perfect Day"	Dumont, Hugo, Kanal, Stefani, Williams	3:56
10.	"Easy Come, Easy Go"	Clinton, Collins, Hugo, Patterson, Rogers, Tilmon, Williams, Worrell, Wright, Young	3:33
11.	"Junkie"	Hugo, Rogers, Williams	2:57
12.	"Get Even"	Hugo, Williams	4:12
13.	"Mr. U.F.O. Man" (featuring John Ostby)	Hugo, Rogers, Williams	4:27
14.	"Little Suzie"	Hugo, Rogers, Williams	11:48

Hidden track "I Don't Care" can be found on some editions at the end of "Little Suzie". Other editions have an extended mix of the "Intro".

[edit] Singles

"Young, Fresh n' New"


Released	October 22, 2001 (EU)
Recorded	Riff Raff Studios
Writer(s)	Kelis, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo
Producer(s)	The Neptunes

"Young, Fresh N' New" was the first and only single from Wanderland. The single was a decent sized hit, managing a #32 peak in the UK Singles Chart.

Chart positions

#32 UK (October 2001)

Tracklist

CD:

"Young, Fresh n' New" (UK radio edit)
"Young, Fresh n' New" (Timo Maas remix – full vocal)
"Young, Fresh n' New" (So Solid remix – full vocal)
"Young, Fresh n' New" (video)

[edit] Production

Producers	Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams
Executive producers	Chad Hugo, Rob Walker, Pharrell Williams
Engineers	Andrew Coleman, Brian Garten
Mixing	Serban Ghenea, Ken Ifill
A&R	Keith Wood
Instrumentation	Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams
Arrangers	Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams
Cover photo	Michelle Laurita
Photography	Pauline St. Denis