I just lllllllllloooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvv her realy.

So next time i'll have lunch with her, I'll make sure that she eats her words back ! (in my wish.!!!!!!!) LOL

Anyway, as a true fan of hers I'm realy excited about the new album. I'm going to check it out.

 If you don't mind me asking.  I'm outta the loop of entertainment news...what miss thang say? What she say to get you all upset?

What I wanna be when I grow up? I wanna be Nancy Pelosi's chauffeur as long as she takes me shopping?- Ms.Fashionista

Don't really care 4what she thinks...Her views on the life I lead don't really effect meh..I'm looking for a cd to jam to..She's got an amazing voice and every album seems to be better than the last...Meh Gwan heading to logo to check out the tracks...

Oh I wish I had the power, the power to change the world..But im just one gyul trying to do it on my own..Can someone help me?(change the world)

Yeah, what'd she say?  I absolutely love 'No One' and had to download it off iTunes ahead of the album.  Whatever she said would have to be really bad for me to not buy the album as well. 

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"If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact." - Jack Handey

Malinda quoted it in BLWE a few weeks ago:

AK: I got the script [for Smoking Aces], I read 30 pages, and I threw it in the trash.

C: Really? Why?
AK: I was like, "There's like every stereotype ever in there. And what's this gay s---, too? So maybe two weeks later, my agent called me and said, "Read it all the way through, you'll be feeling it." So I dug it out and I read it. And the more I read, the more that I got it. I was like, "Wow, there's nothing people will expect from me less than this." And that's what I wanted when it came to film. I don't want to be the singing, piano-playing "girl role." I want to be something that's not who I am.

C: Did you have any reservations or concerns that playing a gay character was going to spawn rumors?
AK: Well, my character wasn't the gay character, my partner was. But there was kind of a —

C: Tension?
AK: There was originally a whole scene where I confronted her about it, and said, "I feel like you're kind of pushing up on me, what's going on?" They left that out; they wanted it to be very ambiguous, which is cool. I figured that people would probably run with it, and there was a little misconstruing about it, but at the end of the day, it wasn't a big deal.

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The funny thing about this--regardless of Alicia Keys' sexuality--she's calling the album, As I Am and here's what she said about it:

"The meaning of my album title is really about being yourself. About freedom, about liberation, about breaking the rules, about doing the unexpected, about being excited, and exciting and learning more. And just becoming a better person, because that's what I'm being. It means 'take me as I am.' "

She wants people to be themselves, on one hand, and celebrate who they are, but then makes homophobic comments? Seems like a bit of a disconnect.

Alicia Keys: 'I used to look rough'

Tuesday, October 23 2007, 12:44 BST

By Kimberley Dadds

Alicia Keys has admitted that she used to look 'rough' at the start of her career, and she can understand why people thought that she was a lesbian.

The singer's sexuality has been regularly questioned since her music career took off in 2001.

She denies she is a lesbian but admitted that her image and attitude understandably caused fans to wonder.

She said: "I was definitely rough around the edges. I look back at certain interviews and I'm like, 'Damn! Did I have to look that hard? Did I have to do my hair that way?'

"I could see why people couldn't see the diamond in the rough. I didn't take it to heart. I know what I am. I know it's not true."

As Pecola noted, the album does take some getting used to and definitely doesn't "hit" u the way the first two did.  My personal fav on the album is Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise).  There can be no mixtape without that song on it and for some reason I could never listen to it just once either.

I too, am suspect of the Common thingy but it doesn't matter one way or another.  She can deny it all she wants (heck, so many before her has done it.) but it shows.  Kiseki, I totally agree with you, although those pics aren't all that intimate, one can feel and see the connection there.  Just in the mere way they sit together.  How contented and inlove does AK look, lounging on that beach chair?  Only one thing could have her giving off that aura of contentment.

Also, am I the only one who can see that AK isn't comfortable with all the "soft" stuff.  Seriously, look at the video for No One, she looks so uncomfortable with that do and outfit on the chair.  Look at that pic and the pic that was on her first album cover and the comfort level is soooo evident.  She just appears "off" in her videos since the "soft" look. And another thing, (and it leads back to what pecola mentioned about not taking every opportunity to denounce being gay), has anyone else noticed that she seems to be taking every opportunity she gets to discuss her new femme/glammed up look?  I mean, we see it everytime we see her, does she really need to say it?  Every mag article and interview has mention of it.

With all that said though.  I love her, love her work, she's talented, she's hardworking, got mad skills (instrumentally and vocally) and will one day proclaim her gayness... (meaning happiness...lol.)

I think it's fantastic, the best she's done yet.  My fave is "I Need You" with "Wreckless Love" in a close second. 

Does anyone else wonder why "reckless" is spelled with a W?  Because I refuse to believe it was an accident in my blind adoration, maybe she's talking about sex in a car avoiding a wreck. :)  Crazy love, but not the type that totals your new Benz.

Back to the music: Throughout a really well-done album!  Get it!

I imagine the pause was about the word “partner”. Earlier on Keys had uttered the words “and my partner…” and it shocked me. It was the first time she had even admitted to having one. There have been lots of assumptions about this. For a while people assumed it was the man she’s had a long-term writing partnership with, Kerry “Krucial” Brothers. But she’s never confirmed this. I have heard from other people that her partner is a woman. For the most part Keys enjoys toying with the intrigue, but part of me feels that soon she would rather have that over."

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3403940.ece

I've read this interview for Times and I get the same impression the journalist got: I think it's not gonna take long for her to come out.

And I do think "No One" has a gay subtext, as said in another thread...

I love Alicia more! She is so gorgeous in person too. I met her a couple weeks ago and O-M-G. She is so sweet but there is definitely a vibe about her. Something about the way she plays piano too...who knows. As far as her comments go, I kind of take it with a grain of salt cuz Alicia is a really down-to-earth, real, accepting kinda person.

kristina.michelle

 She made those comments. I hope one day she discusses those comments with the gay community. I admit though my weak gaydar goes off on her. It had nothing to do with her being rough or anything but something about her just seems to say not straight. I think she could possibly be bisexual.

 "I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. "-Coretta Scott King