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  • Artist: Alicia Keys
  • Rating: StarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: November 13, 2007
  • Total Time: 55:58
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM
  • Genre: Rhythm & Blues

Review

By now established as a major and talented force in the mainstream music world, Alicia Keys has perhaps earned the right to explore a little, to venture into new genres while still keeping a foot firmly planted in the R&B/neo-soul she grew out of. On her third full-length, As I Am, Keys takes a step closer toward the soul revival popularized by John Legend, with full-band arrangements and bright horn hooks, only occasionally falling back into the piano/melisma combination that drove the singles off her first two albums. Instead, here, as evidenced in "No One" -- which sounds all too ready to take on a "reggae dance mix" -- the guitar-driven "I Need You," "Wreckless Love," or "Where Do We Go from Here," which pays tribute to both Stax and Motown ("All I can do/Is follow the tracks of my tears," she sings, after a sample of Wendy Rene's "After Laughter [Comes Tears]" crackles through the first few bars), this is music that owes as much to pop as it does R&B, highlighted no less by the fact that the queen of radio rock herself, Linda Perry, co-writes three of the songs with Keys, including the straight-from-the-Stripped-sessions "The Thing About Love" and "Superwoman." It is on the latter, in fact, that Keys, unsurprisingly, turns furthest away from the style that brought her initial success (more so even than on the John Mayer collabo, "Lesson Learned," which is actually not bad) toward the generic-pop world, sliding in between corny and sincere, sometimes even in the same breath. "When I'm breaking down/And I can't be found/...'Cause no one knows/Me underneath these clothes/But I can fly/We can fly," she sings in the bridge, flatly. Keys has never been a brilliant lyricist, but she's always been able to write simple yet affective and honest words that don't seem trite, something that is forgotten here, and makes the track one of the weakest on the album. Fortunately, this doesn't happen too often, and as As I Am weaves its way through the drums and various keyboards and vocal harmonies that make up the backbone of her work here, punctuated by the great, hooky melodies and strings, you get the impression that this is in fact the sign of an artist who's not content to only follow the path that's brought her previous acclaim, an artist who's looking to find more, both about herself and her music, and an artist who carries these developments, these insights, with her. And so even though As I Am is a flawed work -- a little too poppy, a little too clichéd -- it is also indicative of what Keys can and will do, and that she is someone, thanks to her curiosity, intelligence, and natural talent, who will be able to mature and grow for years to come. ~ Marisa Brown, Rovi

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This article is about the Alicia Keys album. For other uses, see As I Am (disambiguation).
As I Am
Studio album by Alicia Keys
Released November 9, 2007 (2007-11-09)
Recorded 2005–2007
Glenwood Place Studios
(Burbank, California)
Pie Studios
(Glen Cove, New York)
Conway Studios
Henson Studios
(Hollywood, Los Angeles, California)
Oven Studios
(Long Island, New York)
Kung Fu Gardens
(Los Angeles, California)
Legacy Recording Studios
(New York City, New York)
Plus XXX
(Paris, France)
Genre R&B, soul, pop
Length 55:58
Label J
Producer Alicia Keys (also exec.), Kerry "Krucial" Brothers (also exec.), Linda Perry, Mark Batson, John Mayer, Jack Splash
Alicia Keys chronology
The Diary of Alicia Keys
(2003)		 As I Am
(2007)		 The Element of Freedom
(2009)
Singles from As I Am
  1. "No One"
    Released: September 11, 2007
  2. "Like You'll Never See Me Again"
    Released: November 26, 2007
  3. "Teenage Love Affair"
    Released: March 31, 2008
  4. "Superwoman"
    Released: July 29, 2008

As I Am is the third studio album by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It was released in the United States on November 13, 2007 by J Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at various recording studios during 2005 to 2007. Production was handled primarily by Keys, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Jack Splash, and Linda Perry, with a guest contribution from musician John Mayer.

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 742,000 copies in its first week, and eventually earned a triple platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. It became an international commercial success and produced four singles that achieved chart success, including "No One", which became the most listened song of 2007 in America. Despite some criticism towards Keys' songwriting, As I Am received positive reviews from most music critics and earned Keys several accolades, including three Grammy Awards. It has sold over five million copies worldwide.

Contents

Background

Keys had been working on the album since late 2005, but focused on it to a greater extent in 2006. She first mentioned the album's name to E! News reporter Giuliana Rancic on June 26, 2007 at the BET Awards red carpet pre-show. During the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards she confirmed that her album was finished. Earlier Keys had said to MTV: "It's coming together incredibly. I am in love with this album. It's very fresh and new."[1]

The album was heavily promoted, and special advertising was arranged in collaboration with MTV before and during the week of release. The entire album was streamed on MTV's website, beginning on November 6, 2007, a week before the album's North American release date. Additionally, Keys was MTV's Artist of the Week for the week beginning November 12, 2007.[2] MTV commissioned Evan Silver to direct series of nine humorous ads of Keys being harassed by someone in a bunny costume.[3] In the final spot, the bunny is revealed to be John Mayer.[4]

A limited number of vinyl records were pressed on double red vinyl at Nashville's historic United Record Pressing. They contain the fourteen standard tracks divided into two vinyls with seven tracks each.

Singles

On September 11, 2007, Keys premiered the lead singles from the album. The first single "No One" peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Keys' third number-one single and was also successful in other international markets, peaking in top ten positions around the world. Additionally, "No One" won two Grammy Awards in 2008 for Best R&B Song, and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. A second single "Like You'll Never See Me Again" was released as a single and peaked at twelve on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The next single "Teenage Love Affair" peaked at number fifty-fourth in the US and made the top five on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The fourth and final single "Superwoman" peaked at number eighty-two in the US and reached the top twenty on the R&B chart. It also won a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.[5]

Reception

Commercial performance

The album became Keys' fourth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard 200, selling 742,000 copies in its first week; this amount is the largest ever first-week sales for any female artist since Norah Jones' Feels like Home sold one million copies in its opening week in 2004.[6] This made Keys' third consecutive multi-platinum studio album in the United States. The album spawned four singles; two of them became number-one hits on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while the others entered the top three and the top fifteen respectively. As I Am was ranked the US' best-selling album overall[7] and the best-selling R&B album[8] of 2008 by Billboard, while its lead single, "No One", became the most listened song in America that same year.[9] As I Am has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA as of January 3, 2008.[10] It is the fourth best-selling album of 2007 in the United States and the best-selling album of 2008.[7] In 2010, Billboard named it the seventy-sixth most successful album of the decade.[11] The album has sold over five million copies worldwide.[12]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[13]
Blender 4/5 stars[14]
Entertainment Weekly B[15]
The Guardian 2/5 stars[16]
The New York Times favorable[17]
NME (6/10)[18]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[19]
Slant Magazine 4/5 stars[20]
Spin (8/10)[21]
The Village Voice favorable[22]

As I Am received positive reviews from most music critics.[23] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66, based on 22 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[23] Jon Pareles, writing for Blender, gave the album four out of five stars, saying that "Only 27, she has learned classic soul [...] Her first two albums showed how well she could renovate an old structure. As I Am advances by showing an experimental side."[14] Spin commented that Keys' songwriting has improvement from her previous work.[21] In a rave review of the album, Gregory Stephen Tate of The Village Voice praised Keys for her vintage soul influence and called As I Am a "complete work".[22] NME perceived the album as a departure from Keys' previous albums and described it as "streetwise, smoky set of real soul".[18] Entertainment Weekly's Neil Drumming described it as "Keys' most polished — if, at times, edgeless — album to date".[15] Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani wrote that "Keys isn't quite a superwoman come to save R&B from itself, but the timeless quality of As I Am is right on time."[20] USA Today gave the album three out of four stars and called it Keys' "most cohesive studio album".[24] Nate Chinen of The New York Times stated "As I Am radiates not just confidence but also experience", and called it Keys' "strongest effort yet".[17]

Keys' songwriting on the album received negative criticism from The Washington Post's J. Freedom du Lac, who called As I Am "disappointing" and wrote that it "reveals her considerable limitations as a lyricist".[25] Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian gave the album two out of five stars and called Keys "crashingly dull... her vaunted self-belief seemingly leaves no room for vulnerability, humour, insight or any of the other qualities possessed by the soul giants to whose stature she aspires".[16] Writing for Rolling Stone, critic Robert Christgau found the album's prevailing mood "reflectively soulful and the prevailing tempo mid".[19] Despite commending the album for its "more traditional soul" and pop-oriented sound, The Observer writer Stephanie Merritt perceived Keys' lyrics as a significant fault and wrote "for the most part, the lyrics are so reliant on stock phrases - 'feel your touch', 'hold me', 'shoulda known', etc - that you could read anything you like into them without them carrying any personal feeling at all".[26] Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot gave As I Am a mixed review and wrote "The main problem is that Keys’ songwriting has yet to transcend her obvious influences".[27] Marisa Brown of Allmusic also viewed its lyrical quality as a weakness and gave it three-and-a-half out of five stars, writing that "even though As I Am is a flawed work — a little too poppy, a little too clichéd — it is also indicative of what Keys can and will do".[13]

Accolades
"Like You'll Never See Me Again"
The ballad received comparisons from music critics to the music of Prince.[15][17][25]
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The album was number thirty-six on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.[28] The song "Teenage Love Affair" was number twenty-three on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.[29] As I Am received two Grammy Awards for the song "No One" at the 2008 ceremony for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. The following year, she won the award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Superwoman" and received two more nominations for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Lesson Learned" along with John Mayer and Best Short Form Music Video for "Another Way to Die" along with Jack White at the 2009 Grammy Awards.

The album won a 2008 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Album, while "Like You'll Never See Me Again" won for Outstanding Song and Outstanding Music Video. At the 2009 NAACP Image Awards, the "Superwoman" was nominated for Outstanding Song and Outstanding Music Video; it lost both categories to will.i.am's "Yes We Can". "Like You'll Never See Me Again" was nominated for the BET Award for Video of the Year in 2008. The album won two 2008 American Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Album and Favorite Soul/R&B Album. As I Am received a nomination for Album of the Year at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly ranked it number thirty-three in its Best Albums of the Past 25 Years list.[30]

Track listing

Keys co-wrote and co-produced all of the songs on the album; additional writers and producers are listed below.

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "As I Am" (Intro)   Kerry "Krucial" Brothers 1:52
2. "Go Ahead"   Mark Batson, Brothers, Marsha Ambrosius Batson 4:35
3. "Superwoman"   Linda Perry, Steve Mostyn Brothers 4:34
4. "No One"   Brothers, George D. Harry Brothers 4:13
5. "Like You'll Never See Me Again"   Brothers Brothers 5:15
6. "Lesson Learned" (featuring John Mayer) John Mayer Mayer 4:13
7. "Wreckless Love"   Jack Splash, Matthew Kahane, Harold Lilly Splash 3:52
8. "The Thing About Love"   Perry Perry 3:49
9. "Teenage Love Affair"   Splash, Kahane, Lilly, Josephine Bridges, Carl Hampton, Tom Nixon Splash 3:10
10. "I Need You"   Batson, Lilly, Paul L. Green Batson 5:09
11. "Where Do We Go from Here"   Brothers, Mary Frierson, Johnnie Frierson Brothers 4:10
12. "Prelude to a Kiss"       2:07
13. "Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)"   Novel Stevenson, Ron Haney, Brothers, Green, Mostyn Kerry "Krucial" Brothers 4:28
14. "Sure Looks Good to Me"   Perry Perry 4:31
Sample credits

Bonus tracks

  • iTunes edition
  1. "Waiting for Your Love" – 3:53
  2. "Hurt So Bad" (pre-order bonus) – 2:56
  • UK and Japanese edition
  1. "Waiting for Your Love" – 3:53
  • Japanese limited edition (bonus CD)
  1. "Waiting for Your Love"
  2. "Hurt So Bad"
  3. "Superwoman (Live)"
  4. "No One (Curtis Lynch Reggae Remix)"
  • Bonus DVD
  1. "Karma" (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
  2. "Heartburn" (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
  3. "Wake Up" (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
  4. Behind-the-Scenes: As I Am Photo Shoot
  5. Behind-the-Scenes: "No One" Video Shoot

The Super Edition

The album was re-released on November 10, 2008 in the UK and on November 14 (as an import release) and November 25 (as a mainstream release) in the US, titled As I Am: The Super Edition. The album consists of three additional tracks and a second disc of five performances at The Coronet in London.[31][32] The edition's lead single, "Another Way to Die", was written as the theme song to the 2008 film Quantum of Solace.[33]

  • Bonus tracks
  1. "Another Way to Die" (with Jack White) (Jack White) – 4:24
  2. "Doncha Know (Sky Is Blue)" (Keys, Linda Perry) – 4:24
  3. "Saviour" – 3:22
  • Bonus disc: Live from The Coronet Theatre (London)
  1. "You Don't Know My Name"
  2. "Superwoman"
  3. "No One"
  4. "Teenage Love Affair"
  5. "If I Ain't Got You"

Personnel

Credits for As I Am adapted from liner notes.[34]

  • Alicia Keys – vocals, producer, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, harpsichord, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron, synthesizer, bass synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, string synthesizer, vocoder, programming, background vocals
  • Mark Batson – producer, piano, clavinet, Hammond B-3 organ, Moog synthesizer, programming, drum programming
  • Kerry "Krucial" Brothers – producer, drum programming
  • Andrew Chavez – engineer
  • Vincent Creusot – engineer
  • Michael Dease – tenor trombone, bass trombone
  • Brendan Dekora – engineer
  • Darryl Dixon – alto saxophone
  • Duane Eubanks – trumpet
  • Damon Fox – Hammond C-3 organ, Mellotron, Minimoog
  • Chad Franscoviak – engineer
  • L. Green – background vocals
  • Keith Gretlein – engineer
  • Zach Hancock – engineer
  • Ron Haney – guitar
  • Everette K. Harp – saxophone
  • Bria Harper – violinist, background vocalist
  • David Ryan Harris – guitar
  • Dirty Harry – co-producer
  • Sean Hurley – bass guitar
  • Paul Ill – bass guitar
  • Steve Jordan – drums
  • Kristofer Kaufman – engineer
  • Ryan Kebrle – tenor trombone
  • Harry Kim – trombone
  • Trevor Lawrence, Jr. – drums, percussion
  • Harold Lilly – background vocals
  • Carl Maraghi – baritone saxophone
  • Manny Marroquin – engineer
  • John Mayer – guitar, background vocals
  • Ann Mincieli – engineer
  • Steve Mostyn – acoustic guitar, bass guitar
  • Linda Perry – producer, engineer, piano, background vocals
  • Glenn Pittman – engineer
  • Ivan F. Reyes – background vocals
  • Mark Robohm – drums
  • John Salvatore Scaglione – guitar
  • Jumaane Smith – trumpet
  • John "Jubu" Smith – guitar
  • Jack Splash – various instruments, producer, programming
  • Novel Stevenson – background vocals
  • David G. Stout – trumpet
  • Jason Sugata – French horn
  • Peter Thorn – guitar
  • Seamus Tyson – engineer
  • David Watson – tenor saxophone
  • Stuart White – engineer
  • Seth Waldmann – engineer

Charts and certifications

Chart positions

Chart (2007/2008) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[35] 3
Austrian Albums Chart[35] 9
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[35] 10
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[35] 5
Canadian Albums Chart[36] 2
Czech Albums Chart[37] 35
Danish Albums Chart[35] 21
Dutch Albums Chart[35] 2
European Top 100 Albums[38] 3
Finnish Albums Chart[35] 24
French Albums Chart[35] 5
German Albums Chart[39] 6
Greek International Albums Chart[40] 9
Irish Albums Chart[41] 15
Italian Albums Chart[35] 3
Japanese Albums Chart[42] 4
Mexican Albums Chart[35] 58
New Zealand Albums Chart[35] 5
Norwegian Albums Chart[35] 20
Polish Albums Chart[43] 7
Portuguese Albums Chart[35] 4
Spanish Albums Chart[35] 12
Swedish Albums Chart[35] 15
Swiss Albums Chart[35] 1
UK Albums Chart[44] 11
US Billboard 200[36] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[36] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2007) Position
Australian Albums Chart[45] 63
Australian Urban Albums[46] 8
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[47] 93
Dutch Albums Chart[48] 29
French Albums Chart[49] 39
Swiss Albums Chart[50] 19
UK Albums Chart[51] 99
Worldwide[52] 7
Chart (2008) Position
Australian Albums Chart[53] 43
Australian Urban Albums[54] 4
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[55] 36
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[56] 23
Canadian Albums Chart[57] 10
Dutch Albums Chart[58] 35
European Top 100 Albums[59] 16
French Albums Chart[60] 85
Japan Top 100 Albums[61] 97
Swiss Albums Chart[62] 32
UK Albums Chart[63] 109
US Billboard 200[7] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[8] 1
Chart (2009) Position
Australian Urban Albums[64] 29

Decade-end charts

Chart (2000–09) Position
US Billboard 200[11] 76
US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[65] 27

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[66] Platinum 70,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[67] Gold 10,000x
Belgium (BEA)[68] Gold 15,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[69] 2× Platinum 200,000^
France (SNEP)[70] Platinum 200,000*
Germany (BVMI)[71] Gold 100,000^
Ireland (IRMA)[72] Gold 7,500x
Italy (FIMI)[73] Platinum 80,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[74] Gold 100,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[75] Gold 35,000^
New Zealand (RIANZ)[76] Gold 7,500^
Poland (ZPAV)[77] Platinum 20,000*
Portugal (AFP)[78] Platinum 20,000x
Russia (NFPF)[79] Gold 10,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[80] Gold 40,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[81] Platinum 30,000x
United Kingdom (BPI)[82] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[83] 3× Platinum 3,000,000^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[84] Platinum 1,000,000*

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
e² by Eros Ramazzotti		 Swiss Albums Chart number-one album
November 25, 2007 – December 12, 2007		 Succeeded by
Taking Chances by Celine Dion
Preceded by
American Gangster by Jay-Z
In Rainbows by Radiohead
Juno by various artists		 US Billboard 200 number-one album
December 1, 2007 (first run)
January 26, 2008 – February 2, 2008 (second run)
February 16, 2008 (third run)		 Succeeded by
Noël by Josh Groban
Juno by various artists
Sleep Through the Static by Jack Johnson
Preceded by
American Gangster by Jay-Z
Growing Pains by Mary J. Blige		 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums number-one album
December 1, 2007 – December 29, 2007 (first run)
February 23, 2008 – March 1, 2008 (second run)		 Succeeded by
Growing Pains by Mary J. Blige
Growing Pains by Mary J. Blige
Preceded by
Daughtry by Daughtry		 Billboard Top Albums of the Year
2008		 Succeeded by
Fearless by Taylor Swift
Preceded by
Kingdom Come by Jay-Z		 Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
2008		 Succeeded by
I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé

Accolades

Year Awards Award
2008 Grammy Awards Best R&B Female Vocal Performance for "No One"
Best R&B Song for "No One"
American Music Awards Favorite Pop/Rock Album
Favorite Soul/R&B Album
NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Song for "Like You'll Never See Me Again"
Outstanding Album
Swiss Music Awards Best Urban Album International
World Music Awards World's Best Selling R&B Female
Entertainment Weekly Best 100 albums of the past 25 years (#33)
Billboard 2008 year-end charts Top Artists (#4)
2009 Grammy Awards Best R&B Female Vocal Performance for "Superwoman"

Release history

Country Date Label
Germany November 9, 2007 J Records
Australia November 10, 2007
France November 12, 2007
United States November 13, 2007
Canada Sony BMG
United Kingdom November 19, 2007 RCA Records
Japan November 21, 2007 BMG
Brazil December 12, 2007 Sony BMG
The Super Edition
United Kingdom November 10, 2008 RCA Records
United States November 25, 2008 J Records

See also

References

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