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Alicia Keys - As I Am
- Selling 742,000 copies in the first week, Alicia Keys’s album, “As I Am,” is full of personality. Just like Keys, the album is humble, optimistic, and extraordinary. Topics include getting your heartbroken, falling in love, and being a powerful woman. The album deserved the number one spot on the Billboard 200 due to its wonderful piano playing, her singing voice that spans three octaves, and lyrics that are soulful and imaginative.
To begin the album, Keys goes way back and borrows Chopin’s “Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth” in her song, “As I Am (Intro).” Keys certainly plays those keys just as affectingly and polished as Chopin. As the intro approaches the middle, her innovational skills shine when she remixes the nocturne with a hip-hop beat.
Keys’s singing voice is sturdy and will warm your heart. Her seductive voice in “Like You’ll Never See Me Again” (sounding similar to K-Ci & JoJo’s hit song, “All My Life”) will lure you in, while the attitude-stricken vocals in “Go Ahead” will make you agree with every word she articulates.
The rest of the record is crammed with the same emotional filled lyrics. Featuring John Mayer, “Lesson Learned” is about being dumped but learning a lesson from the experience. “Teenage Love Affair” is buoyant about falling in love at a young age. For independent women everywhere, “Superwoman” inspires those who are going through a tough patch in their lives.
Although not better than her debut album, “Songs in A Minor,” the songs on “As I Am” will shoot through your veins causing an addiction that will make you want more of her ageless music.
Reviewer: Lailaa Salaam
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Added: 27-Jul-2009
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