J-love presents miss. alicia keys album cover

While SiR doesnвЂ™t have the gravelly voice of Sampha, he doesnвЂ™t miss a step or a note, doing the track just as much as justice. There are a few touches that feel cheesy, like Alicia finding a pair of fresh Timbs on a telephone wire that fit her perfectly and sitting with the young girl on the stoop and taking a picture, but weвЂ™ll allow it.ДЄlong with sharing вЂњLove Looks Better,вЂќ Keys also took a trip across the Atlantic and swung by the COLORSВ platform to give us a performance of another standout track from her album, вЂњThree Hour Drive.вЂќ Instead of featuring her duet partner on the album, Sampha, she was joined by SoulBounce fave SiR. She sheds her huge skirt, revealing a pair of jeans underneath, and performs an impromptu concert on the block. Throughout the clip, Keys sees more symbols of defiance and she finally decides to escape from the vehicle sheвЂ™s riding in to take her message to the streets. What inspires her to take off her cool? While at a photoshoot wearing a billowing skirt that requires assistants just so she can walk, she sees a young girl with her arm raised in a Black power fist. If youвЂ™ve been following the вЂњFallinвЂ™вЂќ singer since the beginning of her career, youвЂ™ll recall that she started out with a more around the way girl look. In the video for the track, Alicia sheds her glitz and glamour, getting back to whatвЂ™s important. SheвЂ™s no longer caught up in lofty dreams but in the idea of being madly in love, singing on the bridge, вЂњYouвЂ™re all I ever wanted / So can we talk for a minute? / Just stop for a minute / вЂCause all I wanna do is you.вЂќ She changes her tune later in the song, however. вЂњAll I, all I ever wanted / Was a dollar and a chance,вЂќ she sings in the opening lyrics. вЂњIвЂ™m asking you to take me just the way that I am,вЂќ reads more lyrics from вЂњI Am.вЂќ If thatвЂ™s the shallow, vamped-up cyborg she presents on Bionic, no thank you.вЂњLove Looks BetterвЂќ is an uptempo pop track about realizing love is all you really need in life. Most notable is the potty-mouthed ego-stroke вЂњVanityвЂќ which opens with the line вЂњIвЂ™m not cocky, I just love myself, b*tch.вЂќ Eek. Sadly, Bionic reverts back to the brash earache it started as for the final three songs. ItвЂ™s when that audible perfection escapes from her throat that Bionic feels worth the wait, that it feels like weвЂ™re finally seeing who Xtina is. It isnвЂ™t until the middle of the set that the robotic shell is stripped away with a section of immaculate slow jams and ballads - the ode to morning nookie вЂњSex For Breakfast,вЂќ the inspirational, Linda Perry-written вЂњLift Me Up,вЂќ the new mommyвЂ™s dedication to her son вЂњAll I Need,вЂќ вЂњI Am,вЂќ and the smoky вЂњYou Lost MeвЂќ (the last three are all courtesy of Sia) - that fans and critics alike are allowed to fully experience the reason why every Christina Aguilera album will always be worth at least one listen: that voice. The first half the album is packed with caffine-drunk, characterless up-tempos that miss more than they hit special вЂmissвЂ™ shout out to the ridiculous вЂњGlamвЂќ which blatantly rips its essence from MadonnaвЂs вЂњVogue,вЂќ while вЂhitвЂ™ honors go to the deliciously bouncy вЂњElastic Love.вЂќ Led by the artificially bold first single, вЂњNot Myself Tonight,вЂќ penned by Ester Dean and produced by Polow Da Don, Bionic is a cold and calculated attempt by Aguilera to stay relevant in an era where big voices such as hers are treated as baggage scaled back to avoid fees and slick electronic beats are treated as first class passengers. On вЂњI Am,вЂќ the stunning Sia-penned, string-heavy gem buried deep in the middle of Christina AguileraвЂs new album, the golden-voiced singer revels in the joys of being loved for who she is.Д«ut who is she exactly? On the bulk of the songs on Bionic, AguileraвЂ™s fourth studio album, arriving four years after her last set, 2006вЂ™s Back To Basics, Xtina seems to be playing one huge game of musical make believe, making it hard to know when the real Xtina stands up.

J-love presents miss. alicia keys album cover