Alicia Keys | Pop review

Arena, LondonHooking up with Jay-Z for Empire State of Mind has elevated Alicia Keys to a level of stardom where it will no longer do to merely traipse on stage and sing. The New York R&B singer is accordingly wheeled into public view in a cage, within which the leather-clad Keys writhes until the bars magically give way.For this famously clean-living singer, this must have counted as unbridled smut, but there was also an underlying message; with Keys, there always is. Her current album (and f...

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