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Alicia Keys' CD like a hip-hop, male-bashing Alanis By
Julie Sulunga Songs with some good mixing and lyrics that tell about how a woman should be treated. Alicia Keys is a young artist with a new hip-hop album, but the songs soon wear out their welcome. Her being only 22 years old makes the album even more significant because she wrote most of her own music and lyrics. Though the mixing is good, the lyrics are too repetitive and about the same subject -- men. It seems like she doesn't know more about life than that, if that is all she writes about. Her title track is Fallin' and though the lyrics and music of that one track are wonderful, it seems like she has little else worth such merit. Keys has potential, though, because she has talent and soul, a combination that few singers has. Her music is absolutely some the best mixing and synchronization I have ever heard and the way she mixes in the piano with everything, makes you wish that all musicians had such skill. The male bashing/how a woman should be treating was a little redundant. Half the time I was listening to the music and wishing that there was different lyrics to different music. Because of the lyrics I didn't enjoy most of the album, except for the two songs Fallin' and Troubles. As for all the other lyrics, they were horrible, and the duet with Jimmy Cozier was a waste of my time. I am excited to see her future work; maybe after she gets a life or thinks there is more to life than guys, her lyrics will improve. It was like listening to a hip hop version of Alanis Morisette from her first album.
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