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~Official Alicia Keys Thread~
Member Since: 5/17/2006
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i so want the album now i love the previews
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Member Since: 8/3/2006
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Her album is gonna be hot.....can't wait to buy it
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Member Since: 10/28/2007
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love it, love it, love it!!
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Member Since: 5/10/2007
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I hope "Like You'll Never See Me Again" peaked at no.1. 
"No One" is a good song, I love it! I'm definitely gonna buy her CD.
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Member Since: 4/6/2007
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As I Am Reviews...
Rolling Stone
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You have to admire Alicia Keys' commitment to her street-nice vision. In the year Ciara grew up, Rihanna left the islands and Jill Scott explored the joy of sex, the twenty-six-year-old's third studio album envisions a hip-hop generation ready for its own Roberta Flack. Despite substantial input from Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, the rapper boyfriend Keys says she made wait a year to get down, the prevailing mood is reflectively soulful and the prevailing tempo mid. The pair's collaborations peak with two power ballads anchored by heavy keyboard hooks: the watch-your-step "Go Ahead" and the unconditional "No One." And while proven hitmakers Linda Perry and John Mayer add little, Plantlife's relatively obscure Jack Splash chips in on the album's two liveliest, loveliest tracks: "Teenage Love Affair," in which a street-nice girl stops at "third base," and "Wreckless Love," which goes "crazy" without specifying a single body part.
ROBERT CHRISTGAU
(Posted: Nov 15, 2007)
Source:http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...139246/as_i_am
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FOX
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First Report: Alicia Keys' New Album, 'as I Am'
Here’s the first report/review of Alicia Keys’ third studio album, "As I Am," which was made available late Monday.
To say it’s spectacular is an understatement. Keys, 27, just six years in the music business, is one of the two or three reasons to even hope that pop has a future. Without her, Rob Thomas, John Legend and John Mayer, we would have to just pack up and go home.
But Keys is different. The 14 tracks on "As I Am" show a musical maturity and growth that are simply breathtaking. We can start by addressing "No One," the lead single, and No. 1 on all charts.
When it was released, "No One" sounded atonal and a little off-putting. But as it turns out, the repetitive piano and what sounds like an oompah pah tuba (we’re not sure if it’s real or synthesized) and disarming acoustic guitar give the track a tremendous anthem quality.
"No One" has surfaced as the surprise hit of the year. Released in time for the Grammy deadline (the album isn’t), "No One" may wind up winning a lot of last-minute awards.
The single was just the tip of the iceberg. When she debuted "If I Ain’t Got You" a couple of years ago, there was just an inkling that Alicia was about to take off as a superior songwriter.
On the new album, we have "Thing Called Love" (co-written with mega producer-writer Linda Perry) and a collaboration with partner Kerry Brothers on "Like You’ll Never See Me Again"-- outstanding ballads that not only secure her place in pop history but undoubtedly will reap a fortune if other artists are smart enough to cover them.
I heard Alicia play them at her Black Ball two weeks ago, so I know we’ll be seeing audiences singing along to both songs.
And there’s more: Alicia’s collaborated on another frighteningly good ballad, "Lesson Learned," with Mayer, who also contributes backup vocals. Their duet recalls the great old days of Carole King teaming with James Taylor back in the Paleolithic era of singer-songwriters from which both Keys and Mayer seem to channel their abilities.
But "As I Am" is not all about ballads. "Go Ahead," the album’s lead track (after a beautiful piano intro), is a rockin’, pounding R&B number that Keys should have no trouble using to start concerts.
"Teenage Love Affair" recalls '80s rapper Slick Rick’s "Teenage Love," but with a twist: Keys has written a new original song that on first hearing could be a solid-gold soul hit circa 1971. Considering she was only born in 1980, I’m still trying to figure out how she did that.
There are plenty more good tracks, and I’ll tell you more about them later this week. Suffice to say, by the time you get to the end number, "Sure Looks Good to Me," you’re not entirely unprepared for a finishing touch, a masterpiece co-written and produced by Perry that recalls some of the great album enders of the '70s and early '80s when albums still meant something.
A slow-building anthem, "Sure Looks Good" could have fit right onto Elton John’s "Captain Fantastic" or any one of several classic and beloved records.
And that’s what's so interesting about Keys. She is a throwback and at the same time utterly original. Like Thomas, her songs are so well-crafted that you think you may have heard them before because they hark back to a time when composition, atmosphere and emotion mattered in the creation of a record.
Source:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308860,00.html
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I've already listened to it on MTV The Leak and it is amazing! I listend to 'Diary' a million times and it never gets old. Now I think I've found my current favourite album. I'm definetly buying it on November 13th 
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Member Since: 6/16/2006
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I would love for No One to take home some grammys 
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Member Since: 4/6/2007
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^Yeah that would be great!
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Member Since: 4/6/2007
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Alicia Keys: 'If Your Heart Doesn't Feel Me, Then You Are Dead!'
Singer recently shot video for new single 'Like You'll Never See Me Again.'
NEW YORK — A heart-wrenching song only deserves an appropriate video, right? Well, according to Alicia Keys, it does.
The piano-playing singer's next single is the weeping "Like You'll Never See Me Again," a touching tune of longing love mixed with the hopes for romantic last days should the feelings ever fade.
The track, produced by Keys and her musical partner, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, is the second single from her forthcoming album As I Am, due November 13 on J Records. (Listen to the entire album right here on "The Leak"!) The first, "No One," currently sits at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Keys recently shot a video for "Again" and told MTV News about the concept behind the treatment.
"It's a beautiful song," she explained last week at a black-tie benefit for Keep a Child Alive, the nonprofit group with which she is affiliated. "It's amazing. It's about living every moment as if it's your last. Because if it's our last time to say, 'I love you,' then let it be that we didn't forget that.
"Oh boy," Keys added about the clip. "The video is heart-wrenching. If your heart doesn't feel me, then you are dead!"
As I Am is Keys' third solo album and the first since 2003's The Diary of Alicia Keys, which spawned the hits "You Don't Know My Name" and "If I Ain't Got You."
Since the release of Diary, Keys has said in interviews that, for the first time in her career, she's had to deal with more personal experiences between projects. But an excursion to Egypt, according to the singer, was one of the events that helped her deal with her tribulations and prompted her to begin work on As I Am, the name to which is a nod to her personal travels.
"The meaning of my album title is really about being yourself," Keys said. "About freedom, about liberation, about breaking the rules, about doing the unexpected, about being excited, and exciting and learning more. And just becoming a better person, because that's what I'm being. It means 'take me as I am.' "
Source:http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/157...05/index.jhtml
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She shot the video for "Like You'll Never See Me Again"!! 
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ATRL Administrator
Member Since: 8/27/2006
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RihannaFan, you could probably make a new Official Alicia if you want. the thread starter has been inactive for a while and there's no point of an official thread if you can't update it properly.
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Member Since: 4/6/2007
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^Ok sounds like a plan. Thanks for the idea!
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Member Since: 5/17/2006
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eeeeeeeeeeeh i love this girl i am so hyper now
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Member Since: 6/7/2007
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Yeah The the one who started this thread is hardly on.Well anyway whatever happens I'm posting in any Alicia thread.Oh by the way continue to vote for Alicia at VH1,she's been having a crazy run here's how its been.
Debuted at 3
Fell to 20
Major Jump back to 2
Recently fell to 15
Lets get her that 1.Voting is unlimited at VH1 so cast as many votes as you can,just put her at and then hit Submit and then hit Rank"em again to keep voting and every vote counts.I've been voting alot everyday and I really want to see No One reach 1.Here's the link.
http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/top_...own/vote.jhtml
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Member Since: 6/7/2007
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Can't wait till November 13th.I'm definately getting this album.
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Member Since: 4/23/2007
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i love her  gut i have no idea when this album will come to indoneis 
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Member Since: 9/15/2006
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I'm still trying to like No One.
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Member Since: 4/23/2007
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^ no one is just ok lolz...keep trying...it was kinda hard for me to like no one lolz but now i love it to death lol
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