Product Description

Alicia Keys has enjoyed great success since her 2001 multi-platinum debut, 'Songs In A Minor', which gave the world an introduction to her formidable range of talents. Keys has gone from strength to strength with 2003's follow-up 'The Diary Of Alicia Keys' and 'Unplugged', in 2005. 'As I Am', the singer/songwriter's third studio album, contains soulful lyrics and exquisite jazz-influenced piano playing that pulls onthe heart-strings of the listener. Singles including 'No One' and 'Like You'll Never See Me Again'. Special edition contains DVD with a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, 'making of' documentary and other features.

Track Listing

1. As I Am (Intro)
2. Go Ahead
3. Superwoman
4. No One
5. Like You'll Never See Me Again
6. Lesson Learned (featuring John Mayer)
7. Wreckless Love
8. The Thing About Love
9. Teenage Love Affair
10. I Need You
11. Where Do We Go From Here
12. Prelude To A Kiss
13. Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)
14. Sure Looks Good To Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37043 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, CD+DVD

Amazon.co.uk Review
By the time this long-awaited album saw its release date, most fans had probably read at least a couple of interviews with Alicia Keys in which she explained that first single, "No One"--a firestorm of a song clearly born of a sore heart and steeped in serious soul-searching, was about her decision to retreat from the obligations of stardom when she found out a loved one was in need of her care. The anecdote sticks not just because it explained the song so well--you can actually hear the pain, commitment, and determination in her sultry voice--but because it gets at what makes the woman behind the music so appealing. There's only one way R&B artists grow to become legends, and it's by drenching the words they sing with feeling (think Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack). The skeptical listener might have had her doubts before As I Am, but there's no mistaking it now: Alicia Keys is well on her way to sharing a category with them. This record radiates not just old-soul maturity, the kind Alicia fans say makes her modern rarity, but real soul. Vintage-leaning hooks and horns grab hold on "Where Do We Go from Here" and an assortment of other songs, but Keys can also get by just fine without them, as she proves on more pop-flavored numbers like "Lesson Learned," with John Mayer, and "Superwoman." The genres may be smearing, she seems to say, but bring them on: she won't shrink back. Her commitment is not to a single style but to what's stirring her soul. Because of it, she's moving R&B, or something like it, from the hips back to the heart. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

3 stars for the cd on its own merits but 4 stars with the dvd
I didn't like this cd as much as Songs in A Minor and The Diary of Alicia Keys.Alicia's voice sounded a little flat and so did the music.My favourite song was "No one" which is a really tuneful and uplifting song you can sing along to.The dvd was good and shows Alicia singing live at the Hollywood Bowl and on a video shoot in Los Angeles and a photo shoot in the Mojave desert.The dvd is about 25 minutes long.

I enjoyed her past music, This new Album was not that good.

Fans will always give her songs a 5 star rating and will not take any negative feedback about the new Album "As I Am".

I've enjoyed her past music and even bought a DVD-Audio 24bit 192khz version which still today sounds clear,

beautiful, soul like with a touch of blues & R&B. GREAT! 5/5+


I bought her new Album "As I Am", & played it for the first time but just did not feel the music.

I gave the Album a few months to try again to feel the music but still the album had no feel to it.

It lacked in true R&B soul like which the past Album had a lot of. No true black music feel,

I did not think she offered anything Deep Blue Soul like feel to the new Album. Shame!

Sorry, for the fans, but this is how I feel about the Album in my view.

My view she needs to go back to true black roots and bring back the R&B feel.


e.g. Soul R&B blues to me is like Aretha Franklin song from

"SO AMAZING AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO LUTHER VANDROSS" TRACK NUMBER 5 "A House Is Not A Home" PERFECT!

Even Alicia Keys song from this Album was GREAT 5/5+. Track 7 "If This World Were Mine" PERFECT! 5/5+

godsend
now what can be said about, Alicia Keys, Beautiful, yes, sings like an angel, yes. So what do i think of her album, good in all aspects, beautifully written, sung with a heart of love and joy and therefore in a critical sense rivals Aaliyah's music. It's got soul, sounds fantastic and is a fine blend of soul and RnB. It's a very good album with each song rivalling the next in it's ability to make you feel good about you, the world and everything that goes on in it. So to sum it up, i would say this album is, Excellant and excels in every part of a musical work of art, BUY IT.