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On this, her fourth album, Keys finds herself far away from the R'n'B stylings that drove her first two albums: Songs in A Minor and The Diary of Alicia Keys. Instead, she again embraces the '80s-s... Lees meer

"I thought love would be my cure,"Alicia Keys sings on her fourth album. "But now it's my disease." Let's hope there's no cure for it. On "The Element of Freedom," Keys delivers a musically underst... Lees meer

Wat kun je iemand die de nieuwe Alicia Keys zou willen kopen redelijkerwijs adviseren? Er is een standaardversie, een iTunes Exclusive, een Deluxe Edition en een Empire Edition, elk met andere trac... Lees meer

In a year when Beyoncé released a track about making cellphone sex tapes and Rihanna reinvented herself as a broody, N-bomb-dropping militant, you have to hand it to Alicia Keys for sticking... Lees meer

Listening to Alicia Keys’ The Element of Freedom, you might think someone is playing a huge joke on you.Gone is any inventive use of piano. Gone is the fire and the youthful exuberance that ... Lees meer

Selvom Alicia Keys er en af de mest kommercielt etablerede mainstream-kunstnere overhovedet, hersker der alligevel bred uenighed om kvaliteten af hendes nu fire studiealbums. Bob Dylan finder hende... Lees meer

Alicia Keys behoort tot een van de beste soulzangeressen van dit moment, met haar krachtige stem en klaterende pianospel, maar ze is niet de niet gelukkigste zangeres. Tijdens het schrijven van haa... Lees meer

While it is highly laudable that acclaimed singer-songwriter Alicia Keys’ latest album, The Element of Freedom, delivers 12 tender, bedroom-inclined songs book-ended by an intro and an outro ... Lees meer

Classically trained Columbia dropout Alicia Keys has always occupied a precarious place in the R&B diva landscape. Too classy to demand sexual favours, too angst-ridden to ignore them, the song... Lees meer

Is there room for great soul singers in a post-vocal world? Over the past 10 years, pop voices have gotten thinner and tinnier with Auto-Tune and other production techniques. These days, even Maria... Lees meer