Alicia Keys won't record a song if she can't sing it live. The "Doesn't Mean Anything" singer won't rely on studio trickery to help her voice and is prepared to scrap tracks if she can't get the vocal right.

"I never use Auto-Tune, or anything like that," she said. "I won't have that software in my life. I don't others using it. But if I can't sing on my own, then I'm not going to record it."

Alicia is always writing new songs and even uses her phone to make notes when she feels creative. She added to Q magazine, "I made some notes on my cell phone a couple of days ago. I've got an old idea on there called 'Holy Love'."

"But the new one is just a title, 'The Day After the Night Before'. It's going to be about love and romance, but it could be about someone waking up and deciding they don't like the curtains in their bedroom."

http://www.celebrity-mani...12842.html

Alicia girlfriend some of the material you can't even do live. Do I really need to snatch out some of those "No One" performances where you strained to do the chorus???

Pretty picture of her and I hope she comes with some uptempo stuff this time besides sleepin this rest of her latest stuff bores me silly

ABeautifulOne said:

The girl is full o' shit, it ain't even funny

ABeautifulOne said:

Took the words out my mouth

Chile...

ABeautifulOne said:

The girl CAN'T sing live or she struggles hard to try to sing in places she can't reach without straining herself.

she makes up titles of songs and then writes them . ok

ABeautifulOne said:

No comment

I thought she was a decent performer when I saw her on tv a few years ago. Certainly better then most rnb artists out there.

"Try sleeping with a broken heart" was an odd one though. Reminded me of Expose somewhat. Kinda cool she did something different on that one.

Alicia Keys Refuses to Record a Song Unless She Can Sing It Live

Never stopped her before.

ernestsewell said:

ernestsewell said:

ernestsewell said:

You all are being too critical. Not everyone's voice sounds perfect all of the time. So what, if she strains, she's singing live....not memorex!

maria1999 said:

Her voice hasn't sounded perfect since Diary of Alicia Keys.

maria1999 said:

You didn't read the thread. Fact is she CAN'T sing a lot of her songs live. She does that whole arrogant glance, chuckle to herself, like she's in on some mighty joke that the rest of us peasants can't grasp. The harder she tries to be street, the more she's just

ernestsewell said:

Ok, my comment was in regards to what you and others have said about her singing. The thread said that she won't be recording any songs that she can't sing live. Someone said that it hasn't stopped her before and everyone was off and running about her previous concert performances. I did read the thread and the comments that followed.
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Fuck it, if you wanna take it there... Nevermiiiind the live performances, she was straining to sing "No one" ON RECORD too. ON HER ALBUM, I still don't know what note she was hitting on that third line "you can be shooooowhoooahhh"

ABeautifulOne said:

IMO, people give her way too much. She's not all that of a good singer

Cinnie said:

Hmmmmm.....

midiscover said:

You're right. None of the ones that get all of the accolades are. She's definitely no Monica.

well, we only brought up live performances because Alicia did

maria1999 said:

Monica's the schitt.

maria1999 said:

midiscover said:

You don't like Monica?

Cinnie said:

J Records pore so much money in A Keys. They make sure that woman stay on top. Poor Monica had to go through so much to get her record out. J Records didn't even send enough copies to the retail stores for it to sell correctly. Monica had to get on the phone and call her own record company & demand them to put more Cd's in the store to sell. That is sad.


Alicia just sat home while her Cd shipped platinum....The music business is very shady and cater to who they want to.

maria1999 said:

I do.

I was agreeing with you

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

The new Monica is amazing.