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Post by music89 on Sept 21, 2016 3:14:48 GMT -5
She sang The Gospel and She Don't Really Care at the Apple Music Festival. The Gospel is dope (but i already knew it because it leaked last year). She Don't Really Care is WOW!!! I LOVE this song so much!
Btw iTunes US
If I Aint Got You #25 :o Girl On Fire #56 No One #71 Fallin #92 In Common #162 Empire State of Mind #198
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Post by vsw on Sept 21, 2016 8:21:19 GMT -5
Ugh. Alicia sounded so good last night singing If I Ain't Got You. I want my old Alicia back, not this Mother Theresa nonsense!
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Post by music89 on Sept 21, 2016 11:38:33 GMT -5
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Post by Rican@ on Sept 21, 2016 20:27:44 GMT -5
I'm feeling the love for "If I Ain't Got You", its top 20 on iTunes right now. Also the parent album is #2 on R&B iTunes, wow. I knew The Voice would be great for her, but I didn't expect this push so soon. Nice.
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Post by Dreams on Sept 21, 2016 21:29:50 GMT -5
The new song, "She Don't Really Care," is kind of boring. Also, it reminds me of another AK song but I can't pinpoint which one.
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Post by Rican@ on Sept 21, 2016 21:49:47 GMT -5
I need to hear the studio version of "She Don't Really Care". I do like it, but I think it is more of a studio song than a "performance" one for her. We'll see.
It may reminds you of "Street of New York" (bonus track) from Diary of Alicia Keys.
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Post by Samsonite Man on Sept 22, 2016 11:52:48 GMT -5
I just watched Alicia at the Apple Music Festival. "The Gospel" and "She Don't Really Care" are amazing!
"The Gospel" must be one of the songs she did with Pharrell. It reminds me so much of "Sing" by Ed Sheeran.
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on Sept 22, 2016 15:04:37 GMT -5
The Gospel is great, cant wait to hear the studio version of it. She Don't Really Care is Ok, just a cute little tune.
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Post by Live Your Life on Sept 23, 2016 19:08:35 GMT -5
This was the performance that gave "If I Ain't Got You" such a big boost on iTunes? She's flat for almost the entire song; it definitely didn't warrant the reactions. Alicia must have been overwhelmed that somebody chose her song....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2016 19:12:18 GMT -5
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Sept 24, 2016 2:37:15 GMT -5
This was the performance that gave "If I Ain't Got You" such a big boost on iTunes? She's flat for almost the entire song; it definitely didn't warrant the reactions. Alicia must have been overwhelmed that somebody chose her song.... Alicia must be the only person that doesn't know that her songs are regular singing competition fodder.
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Post by Rican@ on Sept 24, 2016 13:20:11 GMT -5
It wasn't a good performance; however, Alicia singing it is what made people want to buy the song. I honestly do not think people reacted from that woman's performance.
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Post by Ty on Sept 24, 2016 15:12:06 GMT -5
All her albums (including the VH1 live album that nobody knew it exists) are rebounding greatly on iTunes Charts. She seems to be the biggest winner so far from this season of The Voice.
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Post by cjay on Sept 24, 2016 17:53:04 GMT -5
I really enjoyed AK's impromptu performance on the voice. She shoulders really good. I'm shocked to see her albums rebound the way they have based on that impromptu performance. It shows me that the general public still has interest in her. I kinda feel like it's the part of the general public that loved GOF which we know was not urban fans. Anyway, more moments like this and she may just revive her popularity in time for the release of her new album! I'm here for it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 19:28:57 GMT -5
I really enjoyed AK's impromptu performance on the voice. She shoulders really good. I'm shocked to see her albums rebound the way they have based on that impromptu performance. It shows me that the general public still has interest in her. I kinda feel like it's the part of the general public that loved GOF which we know was not urban fans. Anyway, more moments like this and she may just revive her popularity in time for the release of her new album! I'm here for it. I was telling someone a few days ago that most urban fans don't want to hear this, but Alicia and Usher's popularity is more reliant on their 'mainstream' audience (read: wypipo) than r&b fans would care to admit. This is not to dismiss their r&b fans as irrelevant, but these fans aren't a ride-or-die kind of fanbase like the Hive, so it's to Usher and Alicia's detriment to have promotion that caters solely to urban. If they want to get back to having big hits again they need to figure out how to stay visible to those mainstream fans - I'll grant that this is a little tricky for Usher, but I don't think it should be that hard for Alicia because she was always an AC/UAC leaning kind of act anyway. She doesn't have to change her style much, she just needs the promotion. But it's not helpful when you're stuck on a label that doesn't have a clue about urban yet refuses to send and adequately promote your singles to the pop formats. Seeing Alicia get all this love vindicates this opinion for me but now I need her and RCA to make good use of her exposure. Usher had two seasons on The Voice and didn't promote anything.
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Post by felipe on Sept 25, 2016 8:58:00 GMT -5
I really enjoyed AK's impromptu performance on the voice. She shoulders really good. I'm shocked to see her albums rebound the way they have based on that impromptu performance. It shows me that the general public still has interest in her. I kinda feel like it's the part of the general public that loved GOF which we know was not urban fans. Anyway, more moments like this and she may just revive her popularity in time for the release of her new album! I'm here for it. I was telling someone a few days ago that most urban fans don't want to hear this, but Alicia and Usher's popularity is more reliant on their 'mainstream' audience (read: wypipo) than r&b fans would care to admit. This is not to dismiss their r&b fans as irrelevant, but these fans aren't a ride-or-die kind of fanbase like the Hive, so it's to Usher and Alicia's detriment to have promotion that caters solely to urban. If they want to get back to having big hits again they need to figure out how to stay visible to those mainstream fans - I'll grant that this is a little tricky for Usher, but I don't think it should be that hard for Alicia because she was always an AC/UAC leaning kind of act anyway. She doesn't have to change her style much, she just needs the promotion. But it's not helpful when you're stuck on a label that doesn't have a clue about urban yet refuses to send and adequately promote your singles to the pop formats. Seeing Alicia get all this love vindicates this opinion for me but now I need her and RCA to make good use of her exposure. Usher had two seasons on The Voice and didn't promote anything. I agree with you, but I believe most of her fans here want her to stay "true to her R&B sound" and despise Girl on Fire or No One, despite being some of her biggest hits, specially overseas. But her fans want her to release more songs like In Common (which is a great song indeed) but was never going to make it big or hit top 10 in a dozen different countries anyway.
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Post by Rican@ on Sept 25, 2016 11:34:54 GMT -5
"No One" is still a R&B song. It is Pop leaning, but still very much R&B.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2016 11:58:17 GMT -5
I have a question regarding The Voice
I have watched 4 d 1st time some of the voices thanks to these clips posted here yesterday...
So... question: People are picking up a coach... Most I see pick Alicia or Adam. What happens if -for exemple - Miley will not be picked up by anyone? Or that can not happen? Or do all judges/coaches need to have equal number of people?
Anyway, thanks if anyone wants to get me into the show.
btw, If I ain't got you is probably the most beautiful Alicia song
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2016 21:17:33 GMT -5
I was telling someone a few days ago that most urban fans don't want to hear this, but Alicia and Usher's popularity is more reliant on their 'mainstream' audience (read: wypipo) than r&b fans would care to admit. This is not to dismiss their r&b fans as irrelevant, but these fans aren't a ride-or-die kind of fanbase like the Hive, so it's to Usher and Alicia's detriment to have promotion that caters solely to urban. If they want to get back to having big hits again they need to figure out how to stay visible to those mainstream fans - I'll grant that this is a little tricky for Usher, but I don't think it should be that hard for Alicia because she was always an AC/UAC leaning kind of act anyway. She doesn't have to change her style much, she just needs the promotion. But it's not helpful when you're stuck on a label that doesn't have a clue about urban yet refuses to send and adequately promote your singles to the pop formats. Seeing Alicia get all this love vindicates this opinion for me but now I need her and RCA to make good use of her exposure. Usher had two seasons on The Voice and didn't promote anything. I agree with you, but I believe most of her fans here want her to stay "true to her R&B sound" and despise Girl on Fire or No One, despite being some of her biggest hits, specially overseas. But her fans want her to release more songs like In Common (which is a great song indeed) but was never going to make it big or hit top 10 in a dozen different countries anyway. I hate GOF too! lol. But I recognize its appeal - my mom loved that song. I loved No One and never quite got the hate for it; it was such a great song for her. She is capable of releasing songs like that and still having a Fire We Make or Like You'll Never See Me Again on deck for her 'core' fans so I wish people wouldn't get too hung up on it. In Common had more crossover potential than I think a lot gave it credit for. I'm so disappointed that it took off nowhere. I have a question regarding The Voice I have watched 4 d 1st time some of the voices thanks to these clips posted here yesterday... So... question: People are picking up a coach... Most I see pick Alicia or Adam. What happens if -for exemple - Miley will not be picked up by anyone? Or that can not happen? Or do all judges/coaches need to have equal number of people? Anyway, thanks if anyone wants to get me into the show. btw, If I ain't got you is probably the most beautiful Alicia song All coaches need to have an equal number of people (I don't really follow the show though, so I can't remember what the number is). If Alicia fills up all her spots first, she will then watch the rest of the auditions with her chair turned forward, while the other coaches continue to pick from the remaining performers.
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Alicia Keys on her new album, surprise NYC show and more Meet the louder, prouder and freer Alicia Keys, who’s back with a new LP, a hush-hush hometown gig and a badass attitudehttp://instagr.am/p/BK3igG3gvlr [/instagram] In an era before the internet, July 20, 2016, at the Troubadour in L.A. would have been the stuff of legend. No phones were allowed inside the venue at Alicia Keys’s one-off surprise gig, during which she debuted never-before-heard material with purpose. It chimed with events from two weeks earlier: the police shootings of African-American citizens Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, incidents that galvanized the movement Black Lives Matter. “And so it persists, like a bottomless kiss, an illusion of bliss, an illusion of bliss,” the soulful singer-songwriter, pianist and self-assured maverick spoke-sang over gutsy chords. A straight-shooting New Yorker, she threw her hands at her piano while standing upright. Her hair towered Cleopatra-style, her face was bare—revealing every bead of sweat—and she beamed and performed with carnal sensuality like her life depended upon it. This still-untitled track hit the hardest with lines like, “Sick of being judged, sick of being sick / I don’t wanna be a fallen angel.” Afterward, she turned to the transfixed crowd and said, “The world has lost its motherfucking mind.” I had goose bumps, even before I noticed Pharrell Williams was standing behind my shoulder. “I’ve decided I don’t want to sit at a piano anymore!” she tells me about the gig two months later over the phone from her car in NYC. “It’s constricting, you know? You have to stand to play this type of music.” The Troubadour performance was the first taste of a forthcoming, as-yet-untitled sixth studio album, her first in four years. Like a lot of big records these days, it’s hush-hush, without a release date or even song titles. “It all started with uncensoring myself,” she tells me of the album’s impetus. “We allow ourselves to become censored because we don’t want to offend people. We’ll be whoever everyone wants us to be. I didn’t want to be that anymore. This was the first time I created music with such intention,” she admits. “Coupled with the fire that’s in the world is the inescapable fire in myself.” Don’t mistake this flammable rhetoric as picking up where 2012’s Girl on Fire left off. In the years since, the star born Alicia Cook in Hell’s Kitchen has taken off her makeup while locating the sweet spot where expression and social consciousness meet. This is the Alicia Keys you’ve wanted her to be ever since Songs in A Minor catapulted her to global fame in 2001. She’s standing tall again. In the middle of getting into more heady descriptions, Keys pauses, graciously. “This is strange, and I do apologize. But can you give me five minutes? I need to run in and get my son out of his class. I’ll be right back.” I patiently wait on the other line, a position I’m sure a lot of people have been in with Keys these days. Because the 35-year-old is, in short, busy as hell. Take this year alone: She performed at July’s Democratic National Convention (technically speaking, former President Bill Clinton opened for her) and endorsed Hillary Clinton. She wowed at the UEFA Champions League final. She’s even joined as a coach on reality show The Voice, which hounded her to sign on for years. (Despite her initial reservations, she’s loving it: “To be the first black woman coach—a producer, a writer, an arranger and the crafts maker of my career—sharing that experience with people who want this is one of the most fun things I’ve ever done,” she says.) It makes sense that organizing a time to speak with her proved nearly impossible. Fifteen minutes after leaving the phone off the hook, her eldest son, Egypt, is in the car sounding gleeful. “You’re a trooper,” she says to me, apologizing again. “So where did we leave off?” When she does hop back on the phone, she’s sharp, present and calm. I want to know more about that song that blew me away in L.A.—let’s unofficially call it “Illusion of Bliss”—which reminds me of “Fallin’,” her 2001 Grammy-winning breakout hit. The theme is about freeing yourself from chains. I pose that the sonic similarities are a wink at the journey Keys has endured to get to where she is now. “Interesting. That song does reflect what I’m aware of now, yes,” she answers. “It’s about addiction. Some of us are addicted to attention, some of us are addicted to drugs, some of us are addicted to sex, some of us are addicted to drama…” She talks in musical stanzas, like a spiritual leader, repeating phrases, building to a climax. She gathers her thoughts. “I’ve always been in the front seat of my creative process, without question,” she adds. “Now I’m blossoming. The ‘Illusion of Bliss’ song is nuts. It sends me out the window every time I sing it. Which isn’t that often. Yet.” Beyond the glimpse of the new record I caught at Troubadour, I’m allowed to listen to five other finished songs—in (and only in) Keys’s publicist’s office— before this interview, and they’re among the best compositions she’s written. They’re the visceral counterpart to the Jay Z collaboration “Empire State of Mind.” She’s called upon writer-producer Mark Batson (Eminem, Jay Z), as well as former cowriter Harold Lilly, Pharrell (“my brother”) and producer Swizz Beatz, her husband. The focus she’s heeded to lyrics will surely bat away past criticisms of her weaknesses there. “This is a conversation between all of us [about] what we’re going through as women, men, young people who want to change the planet, people who are sick of being silenced.” A single from earlier this year, “In Common” (which may or may not be on the LP), is one indication of what could come. It’s a tropical house-infused track about unifying ourselves despite our outward differences. “There’s only one of each of us in the whole world,” she says. “Only one. If we just look at each other and celebrate that, we can meet each other where we are. How dope is that?” Elsewhere, the music is gospel, driven by classic soul. There’s a retro song about pawning all her material wealth, a cascading arpeggiated track painting images of heroin users, cockroach-infested slums and gritty reality. It’s a record about unrealistic projections of identity, success and happiness. Big topics, indeed. And they’re delivered in an appropriately passionate manner. “It’s an imperative time to be loud,” she says. “We’re not going to be silenced. All of us are battling wars: sexism, ageism, racism. We’re fighting the war of borders. We’re fighting a war as women. As a black woman raising black sons, I’m seeing so much systemic racism exploding in our faces. These days you have to be afraid to be killed just because you’re black! It’s devastating.” She breathes. “Outrageous statements are made out of fear and hate. The intolerance is not acceptable. It’s ancient and patriarchal. The way to propel our country forward is not by building walls. Anyone that thinks that is out of their mind.” New Yorkers can get a taste of Keys 2.0 in person next month; we can exclusively reveal that she plays a surprise show on her home turf October 9. (The details on where are still on the down low and will be revealed next month. For more highly anticipated shows, check out the best NYC concerts in October.) “Ay-yai-yai!” she laughs when I ask about the gig. “I’ve never done this before. I guess that’s where I’m at right now. I’ve never done any of it before. You’re going to get a taste of how art and activism cross over in a way that’s so emotional, so triumphant.” It also happens to be on John Lennon’s birthday, which is intentional; together with Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone and Marvin Gaye, Lennon’s use of music as a vehicle for awareness inspires her. It’s logical that Keys realized she couldn’t have these hard-hitting conversations before she uncovered things herself, including her face. A hashtag she used haphazardly on Twitter (#nomakeup) has been the subject of recent debate, particularly following red-carpet appearances this summer at both the BET and MTV Awards, where she showed up with a bare face. Keys penned an article for Lena Dunham’s website Lenny about the decision to go makeup free in May. She never intended to start a movement, one that some have misinterpreted as antimakeup. “I promise you I had no idea that it would be such a touchstone. I was just sharing this revelation: I realized I’d been covering up in so many ways. What if I don’t want to put on makeup, heels, get all dressed up?” She talks about standards of beauty imposed on us all from a young age. “We’re trying to break out of our inherited stereotypes and misinformation. It’s screwing us all up. I’m trying to work on loving myself the best that I can.” Of course, the superficial is a reflection of what’s on the inside, and Alicia had to work on mending those insecurities, too. She’s spoken in the past about the side effects of being in a male-orientated industry since her teen years. How could she possibly take on societal injustice if she felt tongue-tied in her own decision-making skills? “As I said before, I never thought I was artistically compromised. Between my first manager [Jeff Robinson], my former A&R [Peter Edge], who is now head of RCA, and Clive Davis, none of them told me what to do. At the same time, I didn’t have the knowledge I have now.” She resists. “But you’re absolutely right. I did have to find my freedom. There comes a time when you have to become a woman, stand on your own two feet. That’s why this music has such a surprising, relentless, raw New York energy.” Despite two decades of eye-watering achievements, including 15 Grammys and more than 35 million album sales, Keys still carries with her a reputation of being safe and unprovocative in an era of Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West. All of that is set to change. Brace yourselves for Alicia: uncut. Alicia Keys performs a secret show in NYC October 9 and at the Tidal X charity concert at Barclays Center October 15.
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Post by adamalterlago on Sept 27, 2016 14:47:00 GMT -5
I hope In Common is on the album...it deserves to be there.
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Post by music89 on Sept 27, 2016 15:03:00 GMT -5
I hope In Common is on the album...it deserves to be there. In Common is really good but it looks like it doesn't fit the album sound. Btw I just hope 28000Days will be replaced with a better song
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Post by Rican@ on Sept 27, 2016 15:35:33 GMT -5
I want to go to this secret show. Need to find tickets (a ticket).
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Post by Dreams on Sept 28, 2016 12:38:11 GMT -5
I hope In Common is on the album...it deserves to be there. "In Common" is in the Top 5 best singles of 2016. It definitely deserves to be on the album, even if it wasn't a hit. Incredible song.
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Post by music89 on Oct 3, 2016 2:23:42 GMT -5
I want to go to this secret show. Need to find tickets (a ticket). It's a free concert.
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Post by Rican@ on Oct 3, 2016 7:26:55 GMT -5
I have heard.
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Post by Envoirment on Oct 6, 2016 12:55:51 GMT -5
"Blended Family" can be heard here - Link. It's a radio rip so not high quality.
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Post by Rican@ on Oct 6, 2016 13:48:02 GMT -5
Wow, it's um different. I think I like it. The lyrics? Um, yea
The production is quite breezy though. I like that a lot.
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Post by Juan Carlos on Oct 6, 2016 22:14:17 GMT -5
Her new album is called HERE and it will be out on November 4. It includes 16 tracks and her new single "Blended Family (What You Do For Love)" is available as an instant grat.
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Post by Rican@ on Oct 6, 2016 22:50:05 GMT -5
Love the album cover, just simply gorgeous.
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