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Whistle Stopper - As I Am
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List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: J-Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886971151329
Format: Enhanced
Label: J-Records
Manufacturer: J-Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: J-Records
Release Date: 2007-11-13
Studio: J-Records
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Customer Rating:
Summary: not sold
Comment: As I Am
I wanted to like this. MTV..in between my favorite shows..maybe that is what prompted me to take this leap. I didnt fall far, but i fell and i am bruised.
Be true to the music. I want an identity from you, Alicia.
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Summary: Every track could hit the charts!
Comment: I wasn't always an Alicia Keys fan but I am now. Her voice is so smooth and she sings with so much soul. Every song on this album is good enough to top the charts!
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Summary: THE BEST!!
Comment: I can't get enough of this cd. My aunt and I blast this song in the car all the time. I love "Lessoned Learned". Everybody that I have told about this cd love it just as much as i do.
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Summary: As She Is...
Comment: "As I Am," Alicia Keys' third solo effort is her best all-around effort to date. While the CD offers no immeidate classics like "Fallin'," or "You Don't Know My Name,", the songs work better as a whole. Heavily inspired by 70s soul and rock music, the CD features some of A. Keys most experimental tracks ever. There's "The Thing About Love" that starts out like a typical A. Keys soul ballad, but transforms into a rock ballad. "No One," the reggae-tinged, Grammy-winning #1 anthem, finds Alicia singing in her most passionate and inspired voice ever. "Like You'll Never See Me Again" finds Alicia experimenting with a softer, Prince inspired 80s ballad. "Lesson Learned," a duet with John Mayer, is a bluesy ballad with Alicia on her lyrical "A" game. Mayer provides excellent backup vocals and guitar. "Teenage Love Affair," "Wreckless Love," and "I Need You" sound like they could have been written circa 1975. They are her most aggressive, uptempo soul jams ever!
There's no doubt Alicia is marking her place as one of the most successful and creative female talents ever. With 11 Grammy wins behind her already, she could easily get lazy and release piano driven ballads from now on. But she challenged herself with this record by experimenting with different sounds and in the process made her strongest effort yet. I can't wait to hear what she comes up with next!
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Summary: Alicia Finally Found That Sound
Comment: There's a reason why this album has sold over 3.5 million records to date...With a storng single that is one of the most honest sounding songs in a long while, she brought everyone in to the album. And once you get into the album, she carries it home with songs that are best played one after another for a complete experience.
Ever since her release of "Falling," I've been waiting for an A. Keys album to match the magic of that single...and this is finally it. Every song is honest, heart felt, and very natural. The album seems effortlessly made, which is a sign of greatness.
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Editorial Reviews:
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By the time this long-awaited album saw its release date, most fans had probably read at least a couple of interviews with Alicia Keys in which she explained that first single, "No One"--a firestorm of a song clearly born of a sore heart and steeped in serious soul-searching, was about her decision to retreat from the obligations of stardom when she found out a loved one was in need of her care. The anecdote sticks not just because it explained the song so well--you can actually hear the pain, commitment, and determination in her sultry voice--but because it gets at what makes the woman behind the music so appealing. There's only one way R&B artists grow to become legends, and it's by drenching the words they sing with feeling (think Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack). The skeptical listener might have had her doubts before As I Am, but there's no mistaking it now: Alicia Keys is well on her way to sharing a category with them. This record radiates not just old-soul maturity, the kind Alicia fans say makes her modern rarity, but real soul. Vintage-leaning hooks and horns grab hold on "Where Do We Go from Here" and an assortment of other songs, but Keys can also get by just fine without them, as she proves on more pop-flavored numbers like "Lesson Learned," with John Mayer, and "Superwoman." The genres may be smearing, she seems to say, but bring them on: she won't shrink back. Her commitment is not to a single style but to what's stirring her soul. Because of it, she's moving R&B, or something like it, from the hips back to the heart. --Tammy La Gorce
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