There is no piano in her new video.

Anyway, I LOVE the CD now. I just "got it" yesterday and it's brilliant. Of course, there are talented people that deserve the same success Alicia has, but this is probably one of the best commercial CD's this year.

The music isn't the same as on SIAM, but Alicia has picked it up lyrically. The piano touches that she adds on songs like No One, LYNSMA(the beginning), and Lesson Learned(the bridge) are brilliant, just for the simple fact that she doesn't do too much or too little, but lets her talent be shown.

dragondayz said:

Can you share what it is you "got"?

Janfriend said:

I mean it just clicked with me and I love it now. What she mentioned that she tried to do with "I Need You" I get. She said that she wanted the song to continuously build and it does just that.

I get the whole Janis Joplin inspiration on "Sure Looks Good To Me." I get how she said that there is something on there for everyone. She touches on and crosses every genre and it's believable.

dragondayz said:

She crosses every genre??? I didn't hear that. I'll have to listen to it again. I didn't hear country, metal, folk, blues, dance, latin, or eastern genres

Janfriend said:

Well not every, but many lol. I just realized today that she's one of the most versatile singers/artists.

dragondayz said:

awww, you love her

btw, I heard her on the radio this morning in the gayest interview ever

Janfriend said:

Yes I do. I thought she lost me with this new album, but I really like it and see improvements.

What do you mean by gayest interview lol? Was it Ryan Seacrest?

dragondayz said:

No, Big Boy's Neigborhood here in L.A.

Janfriend said:

Oh. Well what made it gay?

I take it you didn't like that story

"Alicia Keys new song sucks"

That can pretty much be said for the whole CD.
Although I give her props for bringing back an old school technique of starting out mid-tempo and speeding up the song in "Thing About Love", most of the CD is mediocre. Her arrangements are BORING. She should have taken the drum loop in the beginning of "I Need You" and used it on "Go Ahead" and discarded "I Need You" completely so she'd have at least one song with a tiny bit of bite to it. I think I'm starting to feel about Alicia the way Vainandy feels about Whitney Houston only without the hate. Alicia is possibly one of the unfunkiest artists in the R&B genre. She music seems sterile on CD. She needs to stop those rap producers from making her drum beats. It sounds like she has a rap producer lay down the drum track and she comes in and plays piano over it and someone else comes in and arranges around it. If that's what she's doing, that doesn't work for her. Her tracks are lame and lifeless. I tried. I honestly tried. I had higher hopes for Alicia but her music is not growing.

BlaqueKnight said:

To be honest, I don't think Alicia can jam to anything uptempo. Forget about funk, she never had any dance tracks on any of her albums. For this reason alone, Alicia is so overrated.

TonyVanDam said:

"Heartburn", and even on her new CD there is a song called "I Need You" that has a faster tempo. Also "Go Head" lets her breathe away from the piano for a second.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...Mi01Rw2EeE
[Edited 11/20/07 23:58pm]

dragondayz said:

I can't dance to any of that, homey. Not at the club anyway

TonyVanDam said:

"Heartburn", and even on her new CD there is a song called "I Need You" that has a faster tempo. Also "Go Head" lets her breathe away from the piano for a second.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...Mi01Rw2EeE
[Edited 11/20/07 23:58pm]

Janfriend said:

Come on, why would anyone want Alicia, a piano player, to make a club joint lol?

here it is unblended: