& Jermaine Paul), Diary (Hani Extended Club mix) (ft Tony! Toni! Toné! & Jermaine Paul),ĭiary (Hani mix), Diary (Hani mix) (ft Tony! Toni! Toné! & Jermaine Paul), Diary (Hani mixshow) (Roger's Release mix), Dah dee dah (Sexy thing), Diary (Hani Dub) (ft Tony! Toni! Toné! ,Blended Family (What You Do For Love) (ft A$AP Rocky), Butterflyz (KrucialKeys remix), Butterflyz Singles - 28 thousand days, A Woman's Worth (Original radio version), A Woman's Worth (Remix Club version),Ī Woman's Worth (Remix Instrumental version), A Woman's Worth (Remix radio version), Back to life And yes, the repetition of the word ‘soul’ is important-because Keys is at her best is when she eschews the straight-up pop and hip-hop-inflected modern R&B approach in favor of more traditionally influenced soul numbers.Topics Only2, DaOpusUploader, Only2try, Xiph.Org Foundation, Internet Engineering Task Force, Skype's SILK Codec, Xiph.Org's CELT Codec, Opus, opus, Opus Audio, Opus audio, Lossy Audio, Lossy Audio compression, Ogg, ogg, ~128, 128 kbps, 128, Open Format, Royalty-free, Royalty free, Royalty Free, Versatile Audio Codec, Audio, audio, Music, music, Partial discography, Discography, discography, Album, album, Albums, albums, Audio con Pérdida, Compresión de Audio con Pérdida, Formato Abierto, Reino Libre, Reino libre, Códec de Audio Versátil, Discografía parcial, Discografía, discografía, Audio avec Perte, Compression Audio avec Perte, Format Ouvert, Libre de Droits, Libre de droits, Codec Audio Polyvalent, Musique, musique, Discographie partielle, Discographie, discographie, Сжатие данных с потерями, Открытый формат, Безвозмездная, Универсальный аудиокодек, аудио, Музыка, Частичная дискография, Дискография, дискография, ضغط فقود, خالية من حقوق الملكية, برنامج ترميز صوتي متعدد الاستخدامات, سمعي, موسيقى, ديسكوغرافيا, ألبوم تواقيع, ألبومات, 有损音频, 有损音频压缩, 开放格式, 免版税, 多功能音频编解码器, 音讯, 音乐, 专辑目录, 专辑Ģ001 - Songs In A Minor (Deluxe Editions)Ģ003 - The Diary Of Alicia Keys (UK And Japanese Edition)Ģ009 - The Element Of Freedom (Deluxe Editions) But there’s also brilliant moments gone awry like “You Don’t Know My Name,” a song that glides along in perfect soulful bliss until a painfully sappy spoken section rears its ugly head, crashing an otherwise well-done song into the ground. Diary’s stronger tracks include “Heartburn,” a slightly over-polished yet ultra-funky modern take on ’70s soul (more Curtis Mayfield than Isaac Hayes) “If I Was Your Woman/Walk On By,” a well-written soul-pop tune with a killer sitar hook and Keys’ chiming harp-like piano accents that eventually morph into sparse, pretty jazz chords during the verse “I Ain’t Got You,” a beautiful, wintery soul-jazz tune with great harmonies and the soulful “Wake Up,” with its poignant string accents and powerful vocal performance. Better engineering, better production and-though there’s no obvious pop classic here, nothing with a hook that stands up to Key’s biggest hit “Fallin’”-the writing is better.
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On diary, Keys takes what she did on the first album and does it a little better. That said, the follow-up to her listenable, though uneven multi-platinum debut, songs in A minor, is a step in the right direction. Alicia Keys does all these things and more-at 23-years-old no less-and for that, she has my utmost respect.
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Never mind one that also arranges, plays an instrument (besides duct-taped tambourine), writes her own songs and produces her own albums. At the top of the pop world these days, it’s hard enough to find an artist who can sing well without the aid of ProTools.