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Post by bat1990 on May 15, 2016 22:09:22 GMT -5
I've had this song in my head for days and I haven't felt Alicia this much since 2005!
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on May 17, 2016 11:17:47 GMT -5
I hope she'll murder that performance. This song deserves it...
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Post by Caviar on May 17, 2016 17:07:49 GMT -5
Isn't the performance pre-taped?
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on May 17, 2016 17:15:52 GMT -5
Isn't the performance pre-taped? Some of them are.
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Post by Caviar on May 17, 2016 18:44:33 GMT -5
Yeah I know that. But I recall seeing something for a Alicia performance last Saturday. I want a pic with her and Queen tonight.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on May 17, 2016 19:04:05 GMT -5
Yeah I know that. But I recall seeing something for a Alicia performance last Saturday. I want a pic with her and Queen tonight. Giving a slight nod to "Impossible" from either one of them would make me smile.
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Post by Active Aggressive on May 18, 2016 14:42:31 GMT -5
Wait...how long has it been known that Alicia will be a coach on The Voice, along with Miley?? I feel like I totally slept on that announcement so I thought it was just dropped on the world casually last night. Anyway, Alicia will make a great addition to the team and hopefully, she can use it as a platform to promote her music as well. I also thought it was cool that she has collaborated with every coach, except Blake.
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Post by Caviar on May 18, 2016 15:20:12 GMT -5
They announced it last month I believe.
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Post by music89 on May 20, 2016 11:06:36 GMT -5
Alicia Keys's "In Common" Video Is A Midsummer Night's Dream "This video is about celebrating our individuality, and how in the brilliance of our uniqueness, the magic of it all is at the core, we are all the same." This new video for Alicia Keys's "In Common"—the airy first single off The FADER issue number seven cover star's forthcoming album, is midsummer night dreamy. Shot in black-and-white, it finds a glowing Keys draped over a fire escape, watching while a troupe of dancers tangle their dewy limbs in the streets below. "This video is about celebrating our individuality, and how in the brilliance of our uniqueness, the magic of it all is at the core, we are all the same," she told The FADER. "We want the same things. We all want to experience love, the freedom to be our truest selves, to love whomever we want and to be accepted and celebrated for all of our nuances and so called imperfections that make us, us." www.thefader.com/2016/05/20/alicia-keys-in-common-video-premiere
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Post by Leigh on May 20, 2016 11:18:27 GMT -5
Alicia just keeps on delivering...I'm loving In Common more and more by the day
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Post by vipanonymous on May 23, 2016 11:44:54 GMT -5
The video
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on May 24, 2016 12:34:44 GMT -5
I love this video. But I hope her next live performances of IC will be stronger.
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Post by music89 on May 27, 2016 15:37:08 GMT -5
Last night she did a concert like the one did last month. She sang a few new songs. ThatGrapeJuice (Sam) @thatgrapejuice 22h Phenomenal night at @aliciakeys' London showcase. No cameras allowed, but an amazing show. New album sounds superb! Still buzzing from @aliciakeys' London showcase last night! Really loving new songs 'Pawn It All' and 'Hallelujah.' Welcome back! Daz Gale @dazgale 21h That @aliciakeys concert was beyond incredible. Felt so spontaneous and raw. The new songs are all brilliant too. Tommaso Silvestro @tommaso_silvest 21h 2nite @villunderlondon was INSANE! My god the new songs are massive! Gospel & She don't really care wow! Fire! @aliciakeys was a vulcano! @aliciakeys last night was a blast! Can't stress enough how huge the new songs are! Jammed so hard to The Gospel! And Pawn It All! Man! LayerCake @jideadega 20h Based on tonight's evidence @aliciakeys new LP is gonna be lit???????? Ray Huggins @rayhuggins 20h Amazing night with @aliciakeys in London, incredible artist, performer, lyricist & woman. Thank you, it was an honour #UnforgettableMoments Alicia Keys, tour review: Diva proves she’s the real deal with epic reinvention
Beyond the superstar posturing there lurks a constantly evolving giant, says John Aizlewood www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/music/alicia-keys-tour-review-diva-proves-she-s-the-real-deal-with-epic-reinvention-a3258536.html
Never one to miss an opportunity for divahood, even as a major star playing a minor venue, Alicia Keys decreed that her fairly secret Shoreditch show would be a phone-free zone. In fact, many of the audience sneaked their devices through and furtively consulted them during the show. Not entirely surprisingly, nobody’s ego was damaged. Now a 35-year-old mother of two, the winner of 15 Grammys has evolved into big-haired, big-earringed earth mother, part Erykah Badu, part Nina Simone. Inevitably late, before she played a note she had blessed the gig at some length and sagely reminded us to “find what we’re looking for in ourselves”. When she did finally get going, she stopped the opener halfway through and re-started “so you can hear every word I say”. Beyond the superstar posturing there lurks a real-deal performer, a constantly evolving giant. Four years since her last album, three years since her last British dates, the former Alicia Cook has successfully re-invented herself. Her new material, be it the stentorian, grandstanding ballad Hallelujah or the epic Pawn It All, was an in-your-face fiesta of pounding piano, walloping beats and spine-tingling vocals. Keys’s makeover extended to the hits and the affecting Fallin’ was loud and spartan, while the inspirational closer Empire State Of Mind was delivered like tablets of life-enhancing stone. Forget the self-defeating nonsense: she’s taken a huge leap forwards.
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Post by Samsonite Man on May 28, 2016 2:50:09 GMT -5
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on May 28, 2016 8:52:01 GMT -5
She needs to release her new LP... now.
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Post by Samsonite Man on May 29, 2016 2:17:26 GMT -5
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Post by felipe on May 29, 2016 6:51:57 GMT -5
Wow! That was a great performance.
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Post by music89 on May 31, 2016 14:58:15 GMT -5
Love this!! Alicia Keys: Time to UncoverWhy the musical icon is embracing #nomakeup.
We all get to a point in our lives (especially girls) where we try to be perfect. Does it start somewhere in second grade after picture day when you wear your frizzy hair out 'cause your mama says it's beautiful but all your "friends" laugh at you? You grab the brush and gel and pull your beautiful big hair back into the tightest ponytail you possibly can to contain your unique hair in a bun — hiding a piece of who you are in order to fit into a picture of what others seem to see as perfection. Yeah, that's one moment. Or how about in junior high school? Where all the "pretty" girls are wearing lipstick and eyeliner and mascara. Some of them are so skilled they even look like those models in every magazine you ever read — the ones who made you feel slightly uncomfortable with yourself or misrepresented or just unseen. It's another moment where some piece of you realizes that to fit in or be thought of as beautiful, you have to cover up to be a bit closer to perfect. Yeah, that's another one. Trust me, it didn't just end in junior high. I remember when I first started to be in the public eye. Oh my gawd! Everyone had something to say. "She's so hard, she acts like a boy, she must be gay, she should be more feminine!" But the truth is, I was just from New York, and everyone I knew acted like that. In the streets of New York you had to be tough, you HAD to be hard, people needed to know that you weren't scared to fight! But this wasn't the streets of New York. This was the harsh, judgmental world of entertainment and my biggest test yet. I started, more than ever, to become a chameleon. Never fully being who I was, but constantly changing so all the "they's" would accept me. I started, more than ever, to become a chameleon. Before I started my new album, I wrote a list of all the things that I was sick of. And one was how much women are brainwashed into feeling like we have to be skinny, or sexy, or desirable, or perfect. One of the many things I was tired of was the constant judgment of women. The constant stereotyping through every medium that makes us feel like being a normal size is not normal, and heaven forbid if you're plus-size. Or the constant message that being sexy means being naked. All of it is so frustrating and so freakin' impossible. I realized that during this process, I wrote a lot of songs about masks filled with metaphors about hiding. I needed these songs because I was really feeling those insecurities. I was finally uncovering just how much I censored myself, and it scared me. Who was I anyway? Did I even know HOW to be brutally honest anymore? Who I wanted to be? I didn't know the answers exactly, but I desperately wanted to. In one song I wrote, called "When a Girl Can't Be Herself," it says, In the morning from the minute that I wake up / What if I don't want to put on all that makeup / Who says I must conceal what I'm made of / Maybe all this Maybelline is covering my self-esteem
No disrespect to Maybelline, the word just worked after the maybe. But the truth is … I was really starting to feel like that — that, as I am, I was not good enough for the world to see. This started manifesting on many levels, and it was not healthy. Every time I left the house, I would be worried if I didn't put on makeup: What if someone wanted a picture?? What if they POSTED it??? These were the insecure, superficial, but honest thoughts I was thinking. And all of it, one way or another, was based too much on what other people thought of me. I found my way to meditation, and I started focusing on clarity and a deeper knowing of myself. I focused on cultivating strength and conviction and put a practice in place to learn more about the real me. I found my way to meditation, and I started focusing on clarity and a deeper knowing of myself. And I promised I would approach things differently this time regarding my image and allow my real self, as is, to come through. Time passed after I wrote "When a Girl Can't Be Herself," and I didn't think about it much. I guess I got busy and was too focused on creating the music to think about it so specifically. It wasn't until I walked into one of my first shoots for my new album recently that the issue was front and center again. I'd just come from the gym, had a scarf under my baseball cap, and the beautiful photographer Paola (never met a Paola I didn't like) said, "I have to shoot you right now, like this! The music is raw and real, and these photos have to be too!" I was shocked. Instantly, I became a bit nervous and slightly uncomfortable. My face was totally raw. I had on a sweatshirt! As far as I was concerned, this was my quick run-to-the-shoot-so-I-can-get-ready look, not the actual photo-shoot look. So I asked her, "Now?! Like right now? I want to be real, but this might be too real!!" And that was it. She started to shoot me. It was just a plain white background, me and the photographer intimately relating, me and that baseball hat and scarf and a bunch of invisible magic circulating. And I swear it is the strongest, most empowered, most free, and most honestly beautiful that I have ever felt. I felt powerful because my initial intentions realized themselves. My desire to listen to myself, to tear down the walls I built over all those years, to be full of purpose, and to be myself! The universe was listening to those things I'd promised myself, or maybe I was just finally listening to the universe, but however it goes, that's how this whole #nomakeup thing began. Once the photo I took with Paola came out as the artwork for my new song "In Common," it was that truth that resonated with others who posted #nomakeup selfies in response to this real and raw me. I hope to God it's a revolution. 'Cause I don't want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing. www.lennyletter.com/style/a410/alicia-keys-time-to-uncover/
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Post by music89 on May 31, 2016 15:12:20 GMT -5
Alicia is the cover star of this month's upcoming Fault magazine in which she shuns the normal mountain loads of Photoshop and over the top makeup for a stunning stripped back shoot. Alicia - who also recently released makeup-free press photographs - told the magazine her own fault has long been striving for perfection when, in actual fact, everyone is imperfect and that is what makes them beautiful. The star said: 'I'm learning to try and let go of the word ''perfection''. It's not real and it's a word that tears us down. There is no way to be perfect and no fun in being perfect. You can't be happy unless you let yourself be vulnerable and make mistakes because we're always evolving. No one knows it all and I damn sure don't know it all!' Speaking on self-love, she continued: 'I force myself to look in the mirror and own who I am and to own MY beautiful. So what that I have breakouts or so what that my knees are pudgy, there simply is no perfect. 'Once I can teach myself that there is no perfect and that I am meant to have my FAULTS, that is when I become beautiful.' The Voice judge is exploring all this in her new album, which is expected to be out in a few more months. She told the magazine: 'I always feel confident in my ability to explore my vulnerability and to do something that I’ve previously never done in hopes that it was going to take me somewhere. As opposed to being too controlled and forced to make it something that’s not. 'I definitely created this album with real purpose and intention to talk about things I’ve never talked about before.' Alicia is, of course, known for her songs that inspire female empowerment and the singer also talked about the importance of feminism to help women know their true worth. 'I just feel women are the most magnificent species. We are the creators and closest to God. 'There’s so much to learn about what women go through and what women of colour go through and what womanhood just puts on you. There’s so much to face and learn, so much still to be respected and so much equality still being withheld.'
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2016 15:15:43 GMT -5
I think this "new" look is great, but I wonder if she'd be so daring if she wasn't so naturally gorgeous anyway...
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Post by music89 on May 31, 2016 15:34:02 GMT -5
How Alicia Keys Ditched the Anthem & Got Cool with Her New Single
Don't tell me you haven't shot your arm toward the ceiling with drunken vigor, waving it in slow motion to the high-flying chorus of "Empire State of Mind," at least once in your life. You have. It's a staple of 2 a.m. bar crawls and the call-to-action for anyone soaking up the magic of their ambitious dreams with the boost from a Fireball shot. Even if you've never stepped foot over New York's city limits, Alicia Keys and Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind" speaks for anyone who's ever wanted to BE something. It's anthems like this that have taken Alicia Keys' career from the piano-ballad goddess of the early aughts and made her into the inspiring radio star that she is now. Her last few singles have taken on the same formula: a blazing chorus, a heavy bass beat, and the confidence that leaves you knowing one thing for sure: Keys is a girl on fire. But with the release of her latest single, Keys is falling back on the vulnerability of her earlier songwriting—best showcased in the tenderness of 2003's The Diary of Alicia Keys—while giving it a sense of modern cool. For a while there, Keys' singles did what worked for her. "Empire State of Mind" shot to No. 1 in 2009, so she replicated its formula with "Girl on Fire" in 2012. The song, despite its attempt to be self-reflective, came off as generic, with its everything-is-awesome attitude and vocals that were on the borderline of being yelled. With "Girl on Fire" and "Empire State of Mind" being Keys' two most famous songs in the past seven years, it was getting easier to peg her as one to belt her music for the sake of its motivational effects. Even "No One," her hit from 2007, had a chorus with a similarly slower tempo and the same soaring vocals. Not to mention that she douses the song with inspiring lyrics like, "I don't worry 'cause everything's gonna be all right." But inspiring can get boring. n May, we got fresh Keys, delivered in the form of "In Common," a single from her upcoming sixth album. It's written by Keys, Illangelo, Tayla Parks, Billy Walsh and produced by Illangelo. It has no vocals blasting in your face, no pounding bass beat and no inspiring message. It's different, and you definitely won't be screaming this at 2 a.m. Instead, what we get is a sultry tale of a magnetic relationship with an honest observation that most wouldn't want to make when they're in love: We got way too much in common Since I'm being honest with you Who wants to love somebody like me? You wanna love somebody like me? If you could love somebody like me You must be messed up too The production is crisp and cool, and led by a Latin-influenced beat that isn't too heavy. Over mysterious bells, we get a breathy delivery from Alicia. Her signature keys have not left, but they have a slight delay—perhaps the best example of Keys tampering with her claim-to-fame style. In the music video, she's taken on a flowing, natural look, opposing the structured, robotic choices of the past. She's bare-faced, letting herself glow rather than relying on the twinkle of "Girl on Fire's" metallic eye shadow. She opts for a head wrap, rather than her perfectly straightened side lob. The photography focuses on the movement of the human body, using black and white to illuminate the light and the shadows. Everything seems more organic. Earlier this month, she performed the song on Saturday Night Live, smirking wildly as if she were revisiting an inside joke she had with herself. She was clearly feeling it. And people noticed: "She looks comfortable and in her element," the first YouTube comment reads under the SNL performance. "Looks like she found herself. Welcome back Alicia! We missed you." Indeed: Welcome back, Alicia. With "In Common," we have access to your diaries again... although we're still going to be using "Empire State of Mind" to soundtrack those special, whiskey-fueled nights. www.fuse.tv/2016/05/alicia-keys-in-common-essay?utm_campaign=fuse&utm_source=twitter&campaign=scl|twt|fsc&utm_medium=socialI agree with this article! But after seeing the music video you can tell In Common is an inspiring song too. But it's well written and produced...while Girl On Fire was basic af.
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Post by music89 on May 31, 2016 16:46:39 GMT -5
Looks like the album will be out on August 26
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Post by vsw on Jun 1, 2016 6:38:06 GMT -5
Everything about this new era so far has really made me excited for it. I really need it to be a hit for her!
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Post by adamalterlago on Jun 1, 2016 9:38:23 GMT -5
She looks amazing in those pics!!
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Post by music89 on Jun 2, 2016 15:04:31 GMT -5
So...a guy who attended the concert Alicia did in London last week said the new songs she sang are great!! Hip-Hop beats with Jazz piano chords. Especially Pawn It All. He said it's insane! This is Pawn It All when she was creating it a couple of years ago www.aliciakeys.com/vault_videos/studio-sessions-let-the-music-play/The final version begins with an intro with vocals and piano only...she stop singing and then...the beat drops! She also did some Scat at the end of the song. Can't wait to hear it!! :O
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Post by Samsonite Man on Jun 4, 2016 5:29:30 GMT -5
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