trapped in the closet

<img src="http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/rockcandy/Image/trapped%20in%20the%20closest.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s291/Sean912007/SmithWesson645.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> "Trapped in the Closet" is an urban opera, R&B opera, or hip-hopera released by contemporary R&B singer R. Kelly in 2005. The songs relate an ongoing narrative, which Kelly and Jive Records promoted by releasing each chapter to radio stations one at a time. This also serves as the first official single off R. Kelly's album TP.3 Reloaded. The only chord progression used is an Am chord (with a C in bass which then slides down to an A) to an E-Major chord (with a G# in the bass, which then slides down to an E) with crescendos and more instruments added at some points, thus adding suspense. The song then returns to its tonic E-Major chord. The songs tell the story of a one-night stand that sets off a chain of events, which gradually reveals a greater web of lies, sex, and deceit. In November 2005, six more chapters were released, for a total of twelve, on DVD. Nearly two years later, in August 2007, ten more chapters were released on DVD and shown on the Independent Film Channel (IFC), and as well as IFC's Web site. R. Kelly said that more chapters would be written and released. In the Big Package DVD, the commentary remix gave a special sneak peek of chapter 23. On December 10, 2008, Kelly announced the next installment of chapters for release in the Summer of 2009. He is quoted as saying, "The past chapters are nothing compared to these." <!--spoiler--></span></div> Development <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> In the summer of 2005, a series of five music videos were created for the original five chapters and were included as a bonus disc with R. Kelly's TP-3 Reloaded album. The videos were then released on music networks as BET and MTV, and was to have ended there. On August 28, 2005, Kelly released Chapter 6 in the series exclusively for the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami, Florida. It was an unreleased chapter of the series, in which Kelly changed the ending of the original MTV VMA version so that the story could continue with the same characters. Chapters 6 to 8 were later released on VH1 as a 30-minute special. Kelly also mentioned on the October 28, 2005, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live that there was a possibility of a play based on the events of this single. Kelly went on to produce and co-direct (with Jim Swaffield and Victor Mignatti) a series of twelve videos to complement each one of the musical chapters of Trapped in the Closet. A DVD titled Trapped in The Closet (Chapters 1–12) was released in late 2005 and on the DVD commentary (and at the end of the regular credits), Kelly makes several cryptic comments in regard to one of the main characters, Gwendolyn, her many friends, and the very real possibility of another twenty or so chapters to be created, but no specific timetable was given. From August 13, 2007, toward the end of that month, the Independent Film Channel (IFC), through its Web site, released chapters 13 through 22 on a daily basis (except Aug. 21st, the day of Chapter 13–22's DVD release), and included introductions from R. Kelly and IFC News anchor Matt Singer. On September 7, 2007 (two weeks after the DVD release of Chapters 13–22), IFC aired the first twenty-two chapters in its entirety. After the broadcast, an IFC News special featuring R. Kelly and Singer was broadcast. Kelly claimed to have made twenty more installments "that have yet to be filmed," and then reiterated his open-ended stance on the fate of future installments, claiming that the series will end "when the aliens say it's over." The entire series was captured in 24-frames-per-second high-definition digital video instead of film or standard-definition video. <!--spoiler--></span></div> <strong><u><span style="font-size: 100%;">my other clubs<!--size--></span></u></strong> <!--link--><a href="http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=14753">SOS 団 (sos brigade)</a>