Girl On Fire! Alicia Keys Hits Up Fashion Week, Releases Lyric Video For “Not Even The King”

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Alicia Keys did the white thing as she arrived at the Edun Spring 2013 show in a flowy blouse and form-fitting Rag & Bone white jeans detailed with black tuxedo stripes down the sides. She completed the look with black platform pumps and slicked down coif. Are you feeling her look?

The 31-year-old singer makes up for sounding like an orgasmic cat reaching the pinnacle of climax while performing “Girl On Fire” at last week’s MTV Video Music Awards with the official lyric video for her new song, “Not Even The King.”

“With idealistic lyrics painting love as the most valuable currency, the song feels in some ways about a year removed from a perfect release date: you can just imagine it serving as something of a balancing act to an album like Watch the Throne, which was criticized by some for being insensitive to the economic climate surrounding it. But ‘Not Even The King’ remains a beautifully restrained number, with Keys smartly resisting the urge to break into a crescendo that the track never calls for,” writes Smoking Section contributor Samir S. about the track.

Fight Mashonda’s fire with fire by taking a listen after the jump.

Where My Girls At? Alicia And Gabby At The VMA’s

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/Y63BJBKV453QARZJW2AZPAF3T4 BoogalooShrimp

    does anyone else get “winter song” deja vus from this?

    http://vimeo.com/4291488

    initially I was just reminded of the song, but after seing the video the visual are in a similar arty, cutesy style as well…huh.

  • http://www.twitter.com/darylsmead darylsmeadnotebook

    her songs always sound contrived to me. if had a nickel for every bride-to-be who’s going to add this to her reception playlist…

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/Y63BJBKV453QARZJW2AZPAF3T4 BoogalooShrimp

      I was gonna say the same thing! this is probabky gonna be a popular choice for the first dance at weddings this year, and the backdrop music for those lame picture slideshows some couples do

      on the plus side, she finally left the painful off-range belting alone

  • http://www.twitter.com/Titans9 cookiehead jenkins

    She think she’s sade now

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/Y63BJBKV453QARZJW2AZPAF3T4 BoogalooShrimp

      not really….Sade is actually popular with black folk.

  • Welp

    Dis bitch gets a barrel of side eyes from me. Im so tired of these rich mother fuckers talking about money dont matter, lets make a change blah blah blah. bitch if you dont back the fuck up. You need to be singing this to the person who cut that ricky ricardo as hair style for you. BYE

  • SHELL

    If at first you don’t succeed….

  • http://www.twitter.com/weian_fu

    I can’t believe her stylist makes $5,000 a day to make her look like… that. Off-Keysha looks like she just stepped off the set of Beverly Hills Cop II.

  • http://www.twitter.com/TeanBean00 TeanBean00

    Alicia is trying so hard.. girl put your cornrows back in , put on your basketball shorts and be yourself.. because u looka like and sound a mess

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BZDNEISLLWZMHFFPLM4GUIUHKM bohemia

    Well she needs to stop,drop and roll….this sucks….

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  • hello

    Did anyone catch her sing this mess on that cancer telethon the other day? The purpose of the telethon was to fight cancer, but I think I felt a lump growing on my breast after that performance. By the way, who gave her the idea for this video? I bet you it was damn Swiss Beats. We all know how much those hipster rappers like Basquiat.

    • jbm

      “I think I felt a lump growing on my breast after that performance.”  
       
      Anyone seeking comfort and sweet tea after the statement above sent myself, and many others to glory….can meet downstairs for the repass. Ms. Clara and her sisters in the word will be selling fish and chicken plates in the basement. Hallelujah!!!!

  • @sew_far_gone

    Lisa Stansfield called, she wants her steez back.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/7YUKEYQ656P5IO7QD37JO4OSDM Mook

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PVGE57G3MAA24YX3F6S4YGKB3I Micron

      I can’t deny that.

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/7YUKEYQ656P5IO7QD37JO4OSDM Mook

    Alicia’s performance at the VMAs was kinda meh. 

    speaking of Fashion Week, why is Naomi Campbell wearing Shug Avery’s dress from the final scene of The Color Purple?

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BZDNEISLLWZMHFFPLM4GUIUHKM bohemia

      Oh shiiii…….Sistaaaah,you been on my miiind……