In the last couple of months, Alicia Keys opened Super Bowl 2013 and saw her latest album, Girl on Fire, hit Number 1 in the US, her fifth consecutive album to do so.
She’s back to her basic best with piano ballad, Brand New Kind of Me, whose lyrics don’t escape her Hell’s Kitchen-cultivated pride but are influenced with a softer, prettier, radio-friendly arrangement, thanks to unofficial host of the London Olympics, Emelie Sandé, who co-wrote the track.
Keys’ new husband, Swizz Beatz, did the best job for her of all her collaborative producers on New Day, the only track on the album you can dance to, and Nicki Minaj injects some much needed excitement into the album version of the caterwauling single, Girl on Fire.
Other than this, Girl on Fire will be exactly what Keys’, surprisingly mature in their years, core fan base are after-more of the same.
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