Unbreakable is nothing special but is still a really cool track to chill to on an evening summer day. The music is a slightly sped up version of “Intimate Friends” by Eddie Kendricks’ an original member of Motown's super group the Temptations. It doesn’t hold much depth for an artist like Alicia, who usually puts meaning behind her poetry, but it is none the less clever and creative while illustrating the strength of a bond between a man and woman. “Unbreakable” immediately rings a round 1 bell with the lyric “We can fight like Ike and Tina” but don’t duck just yet, it eventually goes on to name some pretty decent relationships throughout the entertainment industry. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I think we all like to go back to our favorite songs to find something that we had missed the first time around.Īlicia slows down the pace of the show with “A Woman’s Worth” before leading us into a new song. (Just one of the few songs that received a new musical arrangement.) The bass line is cool and smooth with a rhythm belonging to itself after falling in line with the bass of the drum and the chord progressions of an easily missable organ due to the numerous rhythms that this song contains. To get things going, Alicia blesses us with an acappella prayer before jumping into “Karma” and sliding ever so gently into a speaker pounding “Heartburn” which gets things moving. If you’re anything like me, you’d never buy the same album twice because in no way are you rich but Keys manages to put a new spin on 2 yr old songs. For the most part of the show Alicia is stuck behind a 9 ft grand and Rhodes piano which, in theory, should be pretty boring to watch but it isn’t. During the duration of the concert, she includes anecdotes of how she came to write and perform the selected songs. She’s flawless as she performs songs from both her albums. The segment was filmed July 14th 2005 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Octomarks the revival of MTV’s Unplugged with the release of Alicia’s Unplugged cd/dvd debut. Lyrically it exhibits maturity and sophistication without losing the wisdom of “A Woman’s Worth” with songs like “When You Really Love Someone.” DecemAlicia Keys drops her sophomore album “The Diary of Alicia Keys.” Musically it is a 180 degree turn from her jazzy R&B Soul debut album “Songs In A Minor” which sold over 10 million copies.
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