Dazed / Dazed & Confused Vol. 2 · Issue 2
Kelis — X Girl / Music Special / Accessories Issue
June 2003, Vol. 2 Issue 2 of Dazed & Confused, fronted by Kelis under the cover line “X Girl” and presented as both a music special and an accessories issue.
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- Dazed / Dazed & Confused
- Condition
- Very Good
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages/components present under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing issued component has been reported.
- Date
- June 2003
Catalogue note
June 2003, Vol. 2 Issue 2 of Dazed & Confused, fronted by Kelis under the cover line “X Girl” and presented as both a music special and an accessories issue. The main contents place Kelis within a network of early-2000s production culture, explicitly naming P. Diddy, The Neptunes and Richard X, while a substantial feature visits Liam Watson’s Toe Rag Studios at the moment its analogue recording aesthetic had become newly influential through The White Stripes and other garage/indie acts. The issue also surveys The Raveonettes, Turbonegro, Four Tet, Kings of Leon, Audio Bullys, Prefuse 73 and Peter Saville, alongside a dedicated fashion-accessory portfolio. It is a strong snapshot of Dazed’s characteristic overlap between music, fashion image-making and independent creative infrastructure.
Why this object matters
The Toe Rag Studios feature and Kelis production network document creative infrastructure across analogue and electronic music. Together with Saville coverage, this gives the complete original issue outstanding 8.8 relevance.
Evidence limits: Complete — all pages/components present under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing issued component has been reported.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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