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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on Aug 2, 2015 15:51:40 GMT -5
I don’t know… I just miss those times when she wasn’t so full of herself trying to be inspirational all the time. It’s really getting old now. She’s slowly but surely turning into a one thick pony in my eyes. I’ve thought she was better than that. I’m often getting annoyed when the recording acts I love don’t take risks/explore new grounds (in their small way) with their next LPs.
28k Days is just… there. I won’t even bother to spin it few more times.
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Post by music89 on Aug 2, 2015 17:06:44 GMT -5
28 Thousand Days. It sounds like it could have been on any of her last three albums. It feels like familiar territory, nothing exciting or new for me. Even some of the lyrics feels recycled. Not impressed. Concur. And they are not helping her in her sales quest. Same old, same old. She's gonna have to take the empowering anthems to a mixtape, re-release or on tour or something. Keep it off the album. Or better yet. Don't release them as singles or "promo" singles. And don't promote and perform them at every LIVE show. They aint doing nothing but alienating radio and potential buyers of her album. First "Speechless" ft EVE, then "New Day", "Girl of Fire" and "Brand New Me"....followed by "We Are Here"...and now "28000 Days". Damn....the general public probably thinks the "Girl of Fire" album is a self-help empowering book for teenage girls. Hence the poor sales of the album. What dude will go out and buy that? I'm not saying she shouldn't record them or anything. She is a mom now. She wants to use her voice for a better good. She is grown. We get it. But skip the mellow annual empowering anthems and just drop the monsta singles. Well said. These songs won't help her album sales smh. She and her team are stupid. She will flop.
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Post by music89 on Aug 2, 2015 17:11:46 GMT -5
I don’t know… I just miss those times when she wasn’t so full of herself trying to be inspirational all the time. It’s really getting old now. She’s slowly but surely turning into a one thick pony in my eyes. I’ve thought she was better than that. I’m often getting annoyed when the recording acts I love don’t take risks/explore new grounds (in their small way) with their next LPs. 28k Days is just… there. I won’t even bother to spin it few more times. The problem is the quality, not the content. i mean...What's Going On...Mercy Mercy Me...those are great inspirational/protest songs.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2015 17:20:35 GMT -5
Agreed. I don't have a problem with her writing socially conscious or inspirational songs, but they just don't sound inspired anymore. The well is dry.
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Post by Rican@ on Aug 2, 2015 20:37:15 GMT -5
I could see her flopping (by her standards). She may still do better than other R&B artists due how much she is pushed at the beginning if she doesn't come with the right single. I expect a rapper on the lead single too.
All I need is a good love song.
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Post by music89 on Aug 2, 2015 23:12:12 GMT -5
I could see her flopping (by her standards). She may still do better than other R&B artists due how much she is pushed at the beginning if she doesn't come with the right single. I expect a rapper on the lead single too. All I need is a good love song. If she releases a bland first single she won't do more than 100k the first week. And she will lose more fans...
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Post by vantiboy3 on Aug 3, 2015 13:26:18 GMT -5
I could see her flopping (by her standards). She may still do better than other R&B artists due how much she is pushed at the beginning if she doesn't come with the right single. I expect a rapper on the lead single too. All I need is a good love song. All i need is a proper R&B/Soul record as a first single. A radio hit. She is capable of it. She has been doing it for years! Like what the hell!!!!???? These days her 2nd or 3rd singles are even more underwhelming than the mellow lead singles. She is one of the rare artists out there that write, produce and arrange their own music. Damn, she can produce the whole damn album. She has produced countless of her previous hits. And hits from other artists as well. I don't understand where she wants to take this legacy/career of hers. I miss the golden days of Alicia Keys. I miss Alicia Keys. Period. I need her to bring it! I need a come-back God dammit! Seeing Alicia Keys debut at #3 with 75k is going to be heartbreaking.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Aug 3, 2015 14:38:45 GMT -5
I think she killed her role in Smoking Aces. She should act more.
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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 3, 2015 16:56:36 GMT -5
Why is this on iTunes? This cannot be considered single material. At all.
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Post by music89 on Aug 3, 2015 17:21:14 GMT -5
I could see her flopping (by her standards). She may still do better than other R&B artists due how much she is pushed at the beginning if she doesn't come with the right single. I expect a rapper on the lead single too. All I need is a good love song. All i need is a proper R&B/Soul record as a first single. A radio hit. She is capable of it. She has been doing it for years! Like what the hell!!!!???? These days her 2nd or 3rd singles are even more underwhelming than the mellow lead singles. She is one of the rare artists out there that write, produce and arrange their own music. Damn, she can produce the whole damn album. She has produced countless of her previous hits. And hits from other artists as well. I don't understand where she wants to take this legacy/career of hers. I miss the golden days of Alicia Keys. I miss Alicia Keys. Period. I need her to bring it! I need a come-back God dammit! Seeing Alicia Keys debut at #3 with 75k is going to be heartbreaking. Mmm...no. Fire We Make is amazing and pure Soul/RnB (duet of the decade), Tears Always Win is sooo good (would have been the perfect first single). Brand New Me is a good song too. Great lyrics, but it's not pure soul (it's more pop/soul)... Anyways, yes she can still make great songs for sure. The problem is that she is making these mediocre songs like New Day and Girl On Fire to sell more albums (that's what the sound engineer said almost 2 years ago...and that's why i'm not expecting a great first single). But she is totally wrong. She will sell less albums.
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Post by music89 on Aug 4, 2015 6:45:21 GMT -5
http://instagram.com/p/58QbrCyDDy jealy88 She needs a slow song @therealswizzz @aliciakeys therealswizzz @jealy88 oh don't worry she is on her A Game!!!!!!!!!! djtrilla @therealswizzz the beat is dope but I think a soft beat will be great for her music...something along the lines of her classic records therealswizzz @djtrilla you will see:) therealswizzz It's showtime that's all I can say????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????✌????️✌????✌????✌????✌???? therealswizzz Get ready!!!!!!
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Post by Samsonite Man on Aug 10, 2015 10:35:18 GMT -5
A Revelation August 10, 2015 For as long as I can remember, I’ve hidden myself. It might have started in school when I realized that I caught on to things a little quicker, and teachers started to show slight favor to me, or use me as an example. I remember feeling like my friends would make fun of me or look at me as if I was different from them and so… I started hiding. Not intentionally, I didn’t mean to, but I did. Little pieces at a time. I definitely started hiding when I got old enough to walk down my NY streets alone. I started to notice a drastic difference in how men would relate to me if I had on jeans, or if I had on a skirt, or if my hair was done pretty. I could tell the difference, I could feel the animal instinct in them and it scared me. I didn’t want to be talked to in that way, looked at in that way, whistled after, followed. And so I started hiding. I chose the baggy jeans and timbs, I chose the ponytail and hat, I chose no makeup, no bright color lipstick or pretty dresses. I chose to hide. Pieces at a time. Less trouble that way. I remember feeling that same way when I first started to get recognized as an artist. I had the baggy/braided/tough NY tomboy thing mastered, that was who I was (or who I chose to be) and I felt good there. Then, because of the way I spoke or carried myself, people started calling me gay and hard and I wasn’t gay, but I was hard and although I felt comfortable there, it made me uncomfortable that people were judging me and so slowly I hid that side of myself. I put on dresses and didn’t braid my whole head up, so people could see more of the “real” me, even though at that point I’m sure I was more confused then ever of what the real me was. I remember one interview I gave had strong social thoughts from a book I just read. The writer misunderstood me and wrote something that I didn’t say. I felt judged by those reading it. Out came the shell again and me under it. Hiding, piece by piece. Little by little. More and more. I became comfortable hiding, my intelligence, my physical appearance, my truths, my thoughts, myself. To this day, every time I get out of the shower to get dressed, I swear the first thought that comes into my head is, what can I wear that won’t cause too much attention when I go pick up Egy, or head to the store, or go shopping, or visit a friend etc. And just the other day it hit me! OMG! Alicia!!! Why are you choosing to be that person?? That is so old and outdated!! STOP!! You are allowed to be smart You are allowed to be beautiful You are allowed to be radical and have strong thoughts that others might not agree with You are allowed to be tough You are allowed to be sexy You are allowed to be bold You are allowed to be shapely You are allowed to be kind You are allowed to be yourself!! And guess what!?? I can be all these things all at the same time. I don’t have to give up one to be the other. I don’t have to hide anymore, I don’t have to pretend and hold back, I don’t have to think that my intelligence, beauty and sensuality are intimidating to others. Who cares??!!! I don’t have to think my silliness, clumsiness, or hallmark card optimism, is something I can’t be proud of! Who cares????!!!! I don’t have to try to go unnoticed I don’t have to fit in I don’t have to close up my thoughts and only speak my truth through songs! I can speak it everyday Live it everyday Be it everyday Dress it everyday Show it everyday Grow it everyday!!! I only got 28,000 of those days. So what the FUCK am I waiting for?? And dammit that’s what I’m doing!!!! -AK Aliciakeys.com
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Aug 10, 2015 11:12:56 GMT -5
So is that like her version of Frank Ocean's coming out letter
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 10, 2015 11:54:30 GMT -5
Well, she did say she wasn't gay but...semantics. Anyway, my biggest takeaway from that is that she is steeling herself for criticism of more Hallmark card platitudes and looking thick, if she happens to gain weight. It's sad that artists even feel these kinds of open letters are necessary in this day and age but it is what it is.
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Post by vantiboy3 on Aug 11, 2015 14:16:54 GMT -5
A Revelation August 10, 2015 For as long as I can remember, I’ve hidden myself. It might have started in school when I realized that I caught on to things a little quicker, and teachers started to show slight favor to me, or use me as an example. I remember feeling like my friends would make fun of me or look at me as if I was different from them and so… I started hiding. Not intentionally, I didn’t mean to, but I did. Little pieces at a time. I definitely started hiding when I got old enough to walk down my NY streets alone. I started to notice a drastic difference in how men would relate to me if I had on jeans, or if I had on a skirt, or if my hair was done pretty. I could tell the difference, I could feel the animal instinct in them and it scared me. I didn’t want to be talked to in that way, looked at in that way, whistled after, followed. And so I started hiding. I chose the baggy jeans and timbs, I chose the ponytail and hat, I chose no makeup, no bright color lipstick or pretty dresses. I chose to hide. Pieces at a time. Less trouble that way. I remember feeling that same way when I first started to get recognized as an artist. I had the baggy/braided/tough NY tomboy thing mastered, that was who I was (or who I chose to be) and I felt good there. Then, because of the way I spoke or carried myself, people started calling me gay and hard and I wasn’t gay, but I was hard and although I felt comfortable there, it made me uncomfortable that people were judging me and so slowly I hid that side of myself. I put on dresses and didn’t braid my whole head up, so people could see more of the “real” me, even though at that point I’m sure I was more confused then ever of what the real me was. I remember one interview I gave had strong social thoughts from a book I just read. The writer misunderstood me and wrote something that I didn’t say. I felt judged by those reading it. Out came the shell again and me under it. Hiding, piece by piece. Little by little. More and more. I became comfortable hiding, my intelligence, my physical appearance, my truths, my thoughts, myself. To this day, every time I get out of the shower to get dressed, I swear the first thought that comes into my head is, what can I wear that won’t cause too much attention when I go pick up Egy, or head to the store, or go shopping, or visit a friend etc. And just the other day it hit me! OMG! Alicia!!! Why are you choosing to be that person?? That is so old and outdated!! STOP!! You are allowed to be smart You are allowed to be beautiful You are allowed to be radical and have strong thoughts that others might not agree with You are allowed to be tough You are allowed to be sexy You are allowed to be bold You are allowed to be shapely You are allowed to be kind You are allowed to be yourself!! And guess what!?? I can be all these things all at the same time. I don’t have to give up one to be the other. I don’t have to hide anymore, I don’t have to pretend and hold back, I don’t have to think that my intelligence, beauty and sensuality are intimidating to others. Who cares??!!! I don’t have to think my silliness, clumsiness, or hallmark card optimism, is something I can’t be proud of! Who cares????!!!! I don’t have to try to go unnoticed I don’t have to fit in I don’t have to close up my thoughts and only speak my truth through songs! I can speak it everyday Live it everyday Be it everyday Dress it everyday Show it everyday Grow it everyday!!! I only got 28,000 of those days. So what the f**k am I waiting for?? And dammit that’s what I’m doing!!!! -AK Aliciakeys.comOk girl. My soul done had enough of the encouragement and uplifting. Drop the album!!!
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Post by Rican@ on Aug 12, 2015 8:58:55 GMT -5
Yo, "The Gospel" is freaking hot! That is Alicia that I want. Yas!
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Post by vantiboy3 on Aug 12, 2015 12:30:18 GMT -5
Guuuurrlll!! I'm on my feet! Yeah..yeah..yeah..yeah!! She got a dirty mouth this time around. LOL. Bring us that gangsta alter ego Ms Keys!!! Can't wait for this album.
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Post by music89 on Aug 13, 2015 5:34:51 GMT -5
Alicia Keys debuted a brand new song called "The Gospel" at Radio One's "The Blitz" on August 11, 2015 at Stage 48 in New York City. Speaking to an invitation only audience of radio programmers from across the country and music industry VIPs, the 15-time Grammy Award winner said, "I'm crazy excited. It's ridiculous... I figured I would bring my studio to y'all and we could listen to some exclusiveness." "The Gospel" is an intense, throbbing hip-hop track addressing urban blight; a 2015 answer to Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On." Here are the opening lyrics of "The Gospel": We all God's children, products of the ghetto, Mama cooked the soup, Daddy did the yellin'
Uncle was a drunk cause it was a felon, and when he got pinched, he told them he wasn't tellin'
Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook, cause every job he had, they paid him off the books
Ghetto university, knowledge is all it took, in a tenement I was listening to the hook
After premiering her new song, Keys teased her upcoming CD. "I am bringing the flava of New York," she said confidently. "We got somethin' crazy cooking...I will take you to a place you understand. I can't wait for you to hear it." No word on when she will release "The Gospel" or her next album. www.examiner.com/article/alicia-keys-debuts-the-gospel-at-radio-one-s-the-blitz-new-york-cityLMAOOO at 2:17 "Hey everybody who's talking can you'll shut the fuck up??" (then she talks a bit about the new album)
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Post by music89 on Aug 14, 2015 18:23:03 GMT -5
http://instagram.com/p/6XWoskIIAi Jemel (one of her dancers): "my sis New Music that's about to drop tho!!!!! YUPPPPP ????????????????...can't wait for the world to experience the Raw...the Real." One of the fans who were at the private session last night: "There's some sounds and lyrics you NEVER thought you'd from AK.. expect a new and refreshed AK!" Btw tonight AK is doing a free concert in NY and it's going to be recorded. Tonight, Alicia Keys will perform at a secret location in NYC. RSVP for exclusive access before its too late!
Please note: This event will be recorded. All cell phones and recording devices must be checked securely at the door before entering the event.tickets.redtapex.com/alicia-keys-secret-show-series/
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Post by Dreams on Aug 15, 2015 10:27:43 GMT -5
This record had better be some next level shit with all this overhyping. So far based on the three new songs I don't see it, but you never know.
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Post by Rican@ on Aug 15, 2015 10:29:08 GMT -5
Right because people have been hyping this record since last year.
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Post by Samsonite Man on Aug 15, 2015 11:54:12 GMT -5
Here is again video of Alicia at The Blitz event.
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Post by music89 on Aug 17, 2015 12:00:00 GMT -5
For real! But i don't expect this album to be her best album like she has been said tbh.
Anyway we don't know if We Are Here is going to be on the album (i hope not).
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 17, 2015 13:01:57 GMT -5
The new song sounds hot and gritty...kinda reminds me of something that would be on her debut. I like.
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