ALICIA KEYS, WHY CAN'T YOU LET GIRL ON FIRE DIE!?! SERIOUSLY!! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF HEARING YOU SHOUT OUT THIS SONG! ARGHHHH!
Okay....Breath.....Relax....Calm!
In fairness to Alicia, this was one of the better, maybe even best, renditions of the song- lowering the top note of the chorus was a good move, making it a lot more pleasurable to listen to. However, why was she even promoting this flop when she has another single out ? And, more importantly, why was she sharing a stage with Maroon Five? Were the Grammys so strapped for time that they started sending out performers in pairs? The mind boggles.
On an unrelated note, did anyone else catch a glimpse of Solange, Aka Beyonce's little sister, sitting in the audience? I have a screen grab below, in case you missed it! Talk about obstructing the views of others! The Dream's hat - guy behind Beyonce- wasn't much better! I would have lost the plot if I'd been stuck behind either!
Thoughts?
I am slightly confused by this coupling...bizarre...
ReplyDeleteAdam doing his usual nasal singing followed by Alicia's 40 cigarettes a day chortling! I agree about choosing this song, clearly nobody at this point is really interested. She should have taken a vocally easier and less brutal on the cords song from the album and chose to sing that, solo too!
I do like Keys and I feel bad of recent to have slated her but she (As you previously noted) needs to go away and let the chops rest, she is bound to feel and hear that she is not on it as she should be! The mind boggles...
My very thought :-)
ReplyDeleteOn all three issues
I agree this is her best performance in a while (probably because Adam shared the burden of the song)
ReplyDeleteThis is how this song should have been song to begin with. I prefer the B4 note to the older 5th octave note she employed....This performance though, it was strange but it worked in an uncanny way... I still didn't like it. lol
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for Alicia Keys. Five years down the road, when she's speaking using Steven Hawking's synthesizer, she'll look back with on these days regretfully, thinking to herself: "Why, oh why did I have to puree my vocal cords with 'Girl on Fire'?"
ReplyDeleteHaha I can see her and xtina together
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