NDRU said:

Once a Pimp.....

Harlepolis said:

I thought is was Adore that Bilal recorded and Bilal said Prince was not happy that he did it and said something like come to the park and let's create something new

banks said:

That is correct. How Come U Don't Call was recorded after Bilal did his version of Adore.

bsk3601 said:

oh ok

banks said:

I could totally hear him murkin' that song to death did any of ya'll hear it?

What u guys think of this song from "The Element of Freedom"?


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What u guys think of this song from "The Element of Freedom"?


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chocolate1 said:

Its not only the fact that she's a straining mess, vocally. Macy Gray can't sing worth a damn, but the girl is expressive and VERRRRY intersting.

My problem with Alicia is the fact that her music is drier than a nun's pussy in the wintertime.

Oh yeah, I feel the same way about John Legend as well,,,,,both compete each other when it comes to how fast they could induce mofos into a coma.
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My problem with Alicia is the fact that her music is drier than a nun's pussy in the wintertime.

HOT DAMN!

lilJ said:

Alicia Keys strikes me as someone who doesn't know where she belongs, she's all over the place...and that lacefront looks like it's alive! That look is sooo not Alicia Keys it's Beyonce all day.

I think she looks cute in the first picture but i don't
know what she's trying to prove in the second.

What u guys think of this song from "The Element of Freedom"?


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Timmy84 said:

I just bought the album (it's the first Alicia Keys' album I bought) and put the CD in my car. This song was terrible! I do not like it. It's poorly written and annoying.

Timmy84 said:

It sounds like something Vainandy would say.

I've noticed a common thing within this thread. Most of the ones bashing Keys don't even own albums and are pulling random clips off YouTube of performances that may or maynot be her best. Now, let's be real. How many times does she perform these songs?? Every performance is going to be great?? Really?? Name me any musician, athlete, actor or writer the hits the mark EVERYTIME.

I remember reading a comment that wondered, WONDERED, if she played the piano live. What?? So you've never even been to a concert but you want to say how much she sucks?? WTF!!! Come on people. Just stop. We will bash Alicia, but deep down we all know Prince hasn't had a decent song in YEARS!!!! Boring dull music?? Try the last TEN Prince albums.

I've noticed a common thing within this thread. Most of the ones bashing Keys don't even own albums and are pulling random clips off YouTube of performances that may or maynot be her best. Now, let's be real. How many times does she perform these songs?? Every performance is going to be great?? Really?? Name me any musician, athlete, actor or writer the hits the mark EVERYTIME.

I remember reading a comment that wondered, WONDERED, if she played the piano live. What?? So you've never even been to a concert but you want to say how much she sucks?? WTF!!! Come on people. Just stop.

We will bash Alicia, but deep down we all know Prince hasn't had a decent song in YEARS!!!! Boring dull music?? Try the last TEN Prince albums.

Music isn't rocket science. People know what they like and people know what they don't like. Every once in-a-while I'll dismiss someone and later comeback to them but I can count on one hand how many times that's happened.



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Music isn't rocket science. People know what they like and people know what they don't like. Every once in-a-while I'll dismiss someone and later comeback to them but I can count on one hand how many times that's happened.



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I ain't trying to hate on this chick, so leave the "you're so negative" bullshit aside. There's a method to this madness.

I've went back and forth with this chick. Dug her when she came out. The all knowing Bart VanHemelen said she was a flash in the pan and her second album would flop and she'd disappear, but alas.....here she is eight years later.

Her first album.....good. Second, much better. She kept the momentum with only 2 years between those first two albums. I kept up with her, and liked her for the most part. "You Don't Know My Name" and "If I Ain't Got You" had to grow on me, but they did, and I really liked them. A DJ friend of mine from KISS-FM here gave me Diary. I love that she plays piano, and can sing, and writes decent music most times. Being a piano player, I can appreciate when someone can PLAY a damn instrument without ProTools behind them.

But then it was four years until her next CD. I kind of lost interest. She did an Unplugged, and a few guest appearances with Eve and Gwen Stefani. Eh. Good stuff I guess. Then I saw her at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, talking about Prince, with Andre 3000. I thought, "Is this chick high, or just fucking arrogant as all hell?" I voted for the latter. For whatever reason, he laughing to herself, as if she was the only one who saw Prince's greatness, was just...well, comical. It's like "He can make you cry, he make you laugh....." (laughs to herself and thinks "these white MFers don't get it, ya'll don't know) "....he can make you feel like you can fly..."

Then I started to watch her interviews and I saw it over and over again. Either she was rehearsed and trying to remember what she was going to say, OR she was just basking in her own greatness when someone asked something like "You write all your own songs, where do you get that inspiration?", or whatever. I kind of dismissed her, forgot about her new albums, and ignored her.

Then she pops up on The View today. She said performed two songs, one of which was the song she does with Jay-Z. Can't remember the name, but it's catchy for sure. She did a short interview before the first song. She talked about her philanthropy with Keep A Child Alive, or whatever the organization is she's working with. Good cause, don't get me wrong. But she said something to the effect, "People come up to me all the time and ask me how to be a part of keep a child alive?"



Really, Alicia? REALLY? Does John Doe, John Q. Public, and Jane Everyday come up to you, ask for your autograph, THEN ask how to save a child? Or do they just run up with a serious look and attitude, grab your hand in a moment of gentle bonding and say, "Alicia, I want to save the chid'run. Can you help me?"

Kudos for her being part of something bigger than her front teeth and her ego. Really, good for her for going and seeing the poverty that still exists in the world, and doing something about it. But gheezus....get over yourself, even just a little bit. Do it for the chid'run.



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I was gonna stay out of this, but I can bite my tongue no longer.

I have never liked Alicia and I feel her success is owed more to the heft of Clive Davis behind her more than anything. I am not saying Alicia isn't talented. She is, but in no way does she have the degree of talent attributed to her and you have to look at the climate in which she made her debut.

2001 was a weird time. Teen pop, Britney, BSB, Nsync and the other clones that spawned as a result, was dying a quick death. Rap was not as generic as it is now and Beyonce was not yet "Queen B". Aaliyah would be dead in few months.

No one at that time was really doing what Alicia was doing and she had a compelling back story that burnished to the hilt. Add to that Oprah fawning, strategic appearances in media, etc, and a star was born.

I have never liked Alicia. When her first cd came out, she was ghetto as a mug and I could tell it was a put on and it grated.

Now that she is hear to stay, I try not to take notice of her, but to be honest, her music has not progressed. It sounds the same. And Alicia is not that great of a vocalist.

I always say this-if she had come out in the 70s, no one would have paid her any mind.

I've noticed a common thing within this thread. Most of the ones bashing Keys don't even own albums and are pulling random clips off YouTube of performances that may or maynot be her best. Now, let's be real. How many times does she perform these songs?? Every performance is going to be great?? Really?? Name me any musician, athlete, actor or writer the hits the mark EVERYTIME.

I remember reading a comment that wondered, WONDERED, if she played the piano live. What?? So you've never even been to a concert but you want to say how much she sucks?? WTF!!! Come on people. Just stop. We will bash Alicia, but deep down we all know Prince hasn't had a decent song in YEARS!!!! Boring dull music?? Try the last TEN Prince albums.

phunkdaddy said:

That she's white enough for suburbia, and black enough to be ghettofied.