It’s a very big step in a new direction.” But on this album she has dug deep, become more confessional and personal versus talking in gen- eralities. “She has a very emotional way of delivering a song. “That’s the most personal song Alicia has done,” says RCA CEO Peter Edge, who signed Keys to J. Opening track “Brand New Me” sets the stage: “It’s been awhile, I’m not who I was before/You looked surprised your words don’t burn me anymore/Been meaning to tell you, but I guess it’s clear to see/Don’t be mad it’s just a brand new kind of me/Can’t be bad I’ve found a brand new kind of free,” sings Keys, whose chic bob is also emblematic of her changing focus.
THIS GIRL IS ON FIRE IS AN EXCERPT: Click to Buy the Issue But this time around, Keys’ creative spark is stoked by enterprising collaborations and deeper lyrical honesty. The singer’s trademarks are still in place: impassioned soulful vocals, self-accompanied by distinctive piano fusing classical and gospel runs with R&B/ hip-hop and pop melodies and beats.
27 RCA Records release-her first since former label J Records was absorbed under the RCA banner. That declaration rings loud and clear throughout “Girl on Fire.” Fine-tuning the self-discovery process she initiated with 2007’s As I Am, Keys alternately rages and simmers on the Nov.
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This whirlwind has definitely forced me to be who I am, to be free enough and brave enough to just not accept anything else-nor try to be anything else.” an entire crazy dynamic of lessons and emotions to grow into and claim. “The most newest, the most difficult, the most loving, the most dream-filled, the most breaking free. “These last three years have been the most in every way,” Keys says during a promotional stopover in Dallas. And in the middle of this whirlwind of activity, she found time to write and record a fifth studio album, the aptly titled “Girl on Fire.”
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