Petition for Alicia Keys to please stop singing about New York

[Remote]

nikkas is really saying Empire State of Mind was trash.

You couldn’t go to any party in New York in that era without hearing that song at least once that night.

Yeah. You heard a garbage ass song. A lot.

A lot of things that are “popular” are fukkin terrible. Alicia Keys, Tik Tok, Dogecoin…

 

[MajesticLion]

Five Alive

 

[Smashius Clay]

I agree with you OP but she had a couple hits back in her day. Y'all can't tell me you don't fukk with

 

[Rev]

i still can't believe they wrote and sang "concrete jungle where dreams are made of"

that's grammatically incorrect

 

[Canada Goose]

whole BP3 was fire . I think I betta give em a reminderrrr

Man I thought was the only one who loved BP3 as a album!!!


Its low key my favorite Jay album BP1 ain't far behind though..

 

[Koli_Kat]

 

[Remote]

She ought to stick to that.
IG model money is hot these days.

And she won’t have to scream about it.

 

[El Bombi]

i still can't believe they wrote and sang "concrete jungle where dreams are made of"

that's grammatically incorrect

Who cares?

 

[calixprynce]

Man I thought was the only one who loved BP3 as a album!!!


Its low key my favorite Jay album BP1 ain't far behind though..

fasho my favorite

that and No Ceilings dropped right before i did my bid . I used to have staff print out the lyrics for me .

Imagine getting a taste of those two albums for about a week, then getting locced up . I needed those lyrics bad

 

[I'm Blackman]

aiight i agree with @Remote

I thought he was talking about empire state of mind. I just heard the new song and its trash vocally.

this is from an alica fan.

 

[Remote]

aiight i agree with @Remote

I thought he was talking about empire state of mind. I just heard the new song and its trash vocally.

this is from an alica fan.

No one
No one
No oooooooonnnneeeeeeee

can say that this song aint fukkin bullshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt

 

[LunaticVillage415]

she was that status before her debut album even came out

Questlove exposed her story back in the day about her basically being a label entity they couldn't figure out how to market for years until after neo soul was a thing.

there are performers and there's artists. Alicia to me is in that Bruno Mars class of talented performers I don't want to hear. Their art is very contrived. Their music has no identity

Bruno Mars made Target/CVS/JCPenny/Safeway background music before he switched up his whole style to shapeshifting time-traveling retro black radio. Everytime I hear that “girl your amazing” song at a grocery store I think, damn Bruno ain’t have no soul before going full vulture.

But too many R&B singers push the envelope on copying the legends because they lack their own style. The Weeknd is a bootleg Michael Jackson, that’s about 75% of his appeal. Bruno, The Weeknd etc. all eat off nostalgia factor. Even Alicia Keys got her whole blueprint from Patrice Rushen... Patrice was always more of an old school hood staple, so the influence was less obvious to non-R&B fans.

I can imagine if you live or work in Manhattan, you’ve wanted to assassinate Alicia Keys and Jay Z for making that NY song. You probably can’t go an hour without hearing that song living there.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

I’m not an New Yorker so I got no dog in this fight

*exit thread bumping M.E.M.P.H.I.S*

 

[Michael's Black Son]

I’m listening to hot 97 right now and that song with Fivio is on.

her voice sounds like an air raid siren before a bomb is about to fall.

how did Fivio not find someone else to get on this track instead of her

 

[ChuckTaylor84]

"Big lights will inspire youuuuu"