Has Alicia Keys been reading The Hunger Games lately because the singer just announced that she will call her new album Girl On Fire. Here's what the singer had to say on hew website about the name of the album, her first since releasing Element of Freedom back in 2009: “Girl on Fire is about new beginnings, new perspectives and fresh starts… stripping away all the bad energy in your life and taking full control of the reigns and how you want to live.”
Alicia has been owrking on her new album with her husband Swizz Beatz, Babyface, Pop Wansel, Rico Love, and Sevyn, and will also perform a new song next month at the VMA's.
Alicia also took to her website to give an update to her fans on the status of her new album, which you can read below...
Hey…
I’m in the studio right now working away on my new album and I am SO excited!!! I’m ignited!!! I’m like a match to a flame! I’ve had the title of this album in my mind for a long time….It’s been hard to hold it back and now I’m not holding it back anymore! It is called Girl on Fire!!! And that’s exactly how I feel!!! You’ll be learning more about it soon… but let me just say before making this record, in some ways I felt like a lion locked in a cage…I felt like a girl misunderstood that no one really knew, I felt like it was time to stop making excuses for any part of my life that I wanted to change. Once I made that choice I became a Girl on Fire, the lion broke free!!
During the recording process, I mostly stayed in NY but on some cool and memorable occasions, I traveled to different places, and worked with many collaborators, (some old friends, some new). I discovered so many beautiful sounds, and meanings and a lot about the power of a song. I can’t wait to share this album with you. I promise when you hear it, it’s a new me, I gave it my all: powerful, soulful, honesty and heart… With Girl on Fire, I want to move you and surprise you.
Girl on Fire is about new beginnings, new perspectives and fresh starts… stripping away all the bad energy in your life and taking full control of the reigns and how you want to live. There is something really empowering about finding yourself and your own inner strength. On one song, One of the lines I wrote says, “I’ll never be perfect, but at least now I’m brave!”
Here’s to finding your power! Your FIRE!! Stay tuned for more.
In the meantime, thank you for all your love, strength and support.
-Alicia
While I will admit I've never been a big time Alicia fan, based on the New Day track, I see she's trying to take a more Beyonce approach to her music and not give us those Stevie Wonder-esque torch songs we've all come to expect. I'm guessing she's going for a much more uptempo, edgier vibe. I am curious as to what the album sounds like to make my own judgements.
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