Songs For Your Day

You Should Try Sleeping in My Bed by amsettineri

I’m falling in love with Alicia Keys twelve tracks at a time.  I recently set myself the musical task of listening to more female vocalists.  This task was borne of my love for Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” and Alicia Keys’ “No One” and the fact that I’ve really been dying to listen to Mandy Moore’s material since she married Ryan Adams.  To accomplish this I went to my favorite place, the public library, and loaded up on whatever I could find.  I got two Mandy Moore albums, which are just okay, a Jenny Lewis album, that Mavis Staples album that Jeff Tweedy produced, and The Element of Freedom by Alicia Keys.  It was the only album of hers the library had in stock, as the woman is so hot and talented that the rest of her canon had been greedily checked out by someone other than me.  Yet I am the lucky one.

The Element of Freedom, Keys’ fifth album, was released in December 2009, which is when I returned from Africa.  Which means that this year I’ve been back wasn’t as good as I thought it was, since I could have been listening to this album the whole time.  Aside from “No One,” from 2007′s As I Am, I’d never heard a single Alicia Keys song.  I encourage the rest of you out there, if you are like I was, to turn off your computer monitors, engage your preferred mode of transportation, and head to your local CD purchasing parlor and buy this album.  You are wasting your life if Alicia Keys isn’t in it.

*Note: I recommend that you don’t watch the video, but simply listen to it.  Despite her musical genius, Alicia Keys may well be responsible for some of the worst music videos I’ve ever seen, and I don’t want this to spoil your listening experience.

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