“So we found a really cool way to just flow.
Since he's outside of it, when he comes into it, he can think from a really fresh perspective,” she says. “In a way he's not in my everyday creative space enough to be jaded by it. I can’t believe we’ve never worked together before.”Īnd of course there’s Keys’s husband, hip-hop producer extraordinaire Swizz Beatz, who helps out on the track “Good Job,” a tribute to frontline workers. I called the song ‘Jill Scott’ because she’s just that iconic to me.
“I really love collaborating with Jill Scott. On “You Save Me,” Keys teams up with singer-songwriter Snoh Aalegra, whom Keys describes as “so beautiful on so many levels it’s rare that you hear a voice that is so clean and so rich and can go so many places.”ĪLICIA also contains Keys’s first collaboration with Jill Scott, whom Keys named their song after. On top of Khalid and Miguel, ALICIA is filled to the brim with a who’s-who of talented collaborators. “The thing that hurts the most about that song, ‘Perfect Way to Die,’ written by Sebastian Cole and myself, is I don’t see it becoming irrelevant, and that’s so horrible, so sad.” The track “Perfect Way to Die” was written after the deaths of Michael Brown and Sandra Bland, but it’s unfortunate relevance has continued as a result of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor - the latter of whom Keys helped create an awareness campaign for. Keys performed the hit single during the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, to which she returned as host after her well-received debut the previous year.įurther releases included the beautiful yet haunting track “Perfect Way to Die,” written in response to systemic racism and police brutality, and “So Done,” her slow, mellow duet with Grammy winner Khalid. 1 on the overall iTunes chart and became the most added song at Top 40 radio in the U.S. Keys’s second release from the album was the upbeat anthem “Underdog,” which went to No. The song was accompanied by a stylistically innovative music video, directed by Cara Stricker and featuring Hollywood heavy hitters Zoe Saldana and Michael B. Keys debuted her first track from the album - the moving and atmospheric ballad “Show Me Love” with collaborator Miguel - way back in September 2019, and it was praised by critics. ALICIA looks to be poised for similar success.
It has been four years since the release of Keys’s 2016 album, Here, which debuted at No. “It’s definitely been a 2020 nobody could have imagined,” Keys tells Yahoo Entertainment, “and the music itself has been ready for quite some time, and now that that it’s here, I couldn’t be more excited.” Today marks the highly-anticipated release of Alicia Keys’s seventh studio album, ALICIA, which had originally been slated for a March 20 release but was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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