This song off Keys' album "As I Am" from 2007 highlights what it feels like to experience teenage love. This is what it sounds like: a song about rising above adversity and proving yourself, even if you're an "underdog." Keys definitely has an ongoing theme of female empowerment on her tracks, and "Underdog" is no exception. With its catchy chorus and empowering lyrics, it's no wonder this song has over 371,235,471 streams to date on Spotify alone. 'Girl on Fire'Īs the most popular song from her 2012 album aptly titled "Girl on Fire," this hit single still serves as a girl-power anthem. This track features R&B singer Miguel, who adds some passionate vocals and really sets the tone for this heartfelt hit. This song is on the slower and more sensual side of Alicia's discography and is equally as good as so many of her other songs. This song represents that ability to evolve and grow into a new you, as Keys feels she did before the song's release. When Keys released this second single off her 2012 album "Girl on Fire," she debuted a new hairstyle to go with it, marking a style change for her in accompaniment with her new music. This song addresses specific issues that the world was facing when the song was released about eight years ago, and serves as a reminder for the public of why we are here on Earth: to make a difference and do our part. This 2014 tune from Keys was dedicated to peace and love in the face of war and hatred. It also won the 2008 Grammy for best R&B song and best female R&B vocal performance. This is Keys' second most-streamed track, coming in at 560,454,627 streams on Spotify, and one of her most recognizable hits to date. If you've ever walked through a grocery store, a mall or any public place for that matter, you've probably heard this song. 'Superwoman'Ī feminist power anthem off her album "As I Am," this song encourages women to embrace the perfection in their imperfection - a common theme for Keys throughout her albums. It just made everything crystal clear to me-what matters, and what doesn’t,” Keys said. "It was such a sad time and no one wanted to believe it. Her new, sung verses were backed by inspirational arpeggios hinting at the E Street Band.She reportedly wrote this song in response to the attacks on 9/11, and later, the untimely death of R&B artist Aaliyah. Keys got that with her finale, “Empire State of Mind (Part II),” her take on the current Jay-Z hit on which she sings the soaring chorus. They are impeccable.īut they await some roughness and immediacy, some surprise. Keys now favors anthems: deliberate, hymnlike melodies that are just waiting for arenawide arm waving. Where her music once clung to 1960s and ’70s soul, Ms. Keys’s songs, they are anything but confessional, reaching for the generality of pop and striving to stay hopeful: “I’m gonna find a way to make it without you,” she insisted in “Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart.”
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She performed about half the songs on “The Element of Freedom,” full of lyrics about breakups and moving on. “If you have to walk a million miles, I’ll wait a million days to see you smile,” she sang. On Tuesday, when she left her piano behind, she strolled easily in her stiletto heels and had frontwoman gestures for every song hand over heart, finger pointing.īut her best moments were those when she sat at the piano and just sang tunes like “Diary” and a new one, “Distance and Time,” a promise to stay true through a separation perhaps a soldier at war, perhaps a pop tour. Keys is the exception: a musician above all. In an era of stars who pose better than they sing, Ms.
(The concert was streamed live on YouTube, and clips of individual songs are now at /aliciakeyssme.) Keys’s AIDS charity, Keep a Child Alive during the show a video screen urged fans to donate via text message. Tuesday was World AIDS Day, and the concert was a benefit for Ms. 15, and it squeezed an arena production videos, large band, a superfluous dance bit onto the theater stage.
The concert was a preview of her new album, “The Element of Freedom,” due for release Dec. Her craftsmanship and equanimity are a comfort, a demonstration of what she counsels. She promises devotion and calls for determination through every struggle.
Keys writes and sings about heartache and sorrow, usually on the way to overcoming them. But that same steadfastness has also emerged as a shortcoming onstage more than in the studio, where the sound of her voice is persuasive. Her message, particularly to women, is to endure and prevail. In a career as one of this decade’s most dependable hit makers, that underlying poise has been her strength. Keys measured every note, every bit of between-song patter, every motion and every vocal inflection, even when she was making her voice sound tearful or imploring or driven. “I know I’m losing control,” Alicia Keys sang in “Love Is Blind,” the song that started her set at the Nokia Theater on Tuesday night.
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