The Diary Of Alicia Keys
- Alicia Keys
- Band Name: Alicia Keys
- Record Label: J-Records
- Release Date: Dec 2, 2003
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90Another masterpiece.
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90A proper soul album which hooks you with the first pneumatic beat and draws you deeper with every heady atmosphere and vivid emotion. [Jan 2004, p.111]
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90Brimming with updated old-school joints, original balladry, and classic-sounding R&B, Diary finds Keys more relaxed, confident, and committed to the tunes of the '70s than ever before. [Feb 2004, p.127]
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80An enthusiastic album full of masterful strokes and electrifying intensity. [#23, p.98]
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With one album, Alicia Keys jumps up from the most overrated R&B artist since Michael Jackson to the best young talent R&B has seen in a very long time.
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Those expecting another album where Keys sounds wise beyond her years will bound to be disappointed by The Diary of Alicia Keys, since her writing reveals her age in a way it never did on the debut.
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Give Keys' simmering voice and evident instrumental skills... the results are all the more frustrating. [5 Dec 2003, p.94]
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75Keys, however, proves to be a better singer than songwriter, as most of the latter half of the album slips into sleepy piano numbers.
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70An hour of heartful, artful singing enhanced by dense, yet fuss-free arrangements. [Jan 2004, p.106]
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An assured, adult statement.
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70The project is clearly laboring to be relevant to the current marketplace and thus suffers from a serious lack of cohesion.
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Keys plays it far too safe here: There's nothing that will offend, and the content is patently generic enough that almost anyone, lovelorn or heartbroken, can build a personal soundtrack of romantic woe from its raw materials.
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There's "Karma" and "I Don't Know Your Name." You and your iPod know what to do.
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60There are a handful of great moments, where risks are taken and ground is broken, but too often it opts for the familiar and the bland.
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50See, there're a good few cracking singles on here, but there are also occasions when her wistful classicism leads her down blind alleys.
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40If she's going to make us read her diary entries, she's going to need something more compelling than this litany of cliche and hackneyed need-a-man Bridget Jones-wailing. [Feb 2004, p.72]
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The note that truly dooms Diary is thematic, not musical. The disc collapses under the weight of one song about heartbreak after another.
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