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Alicia Keys

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As I Am Reviews

Overall Rating
7

As I Am

2007

22 Sources have reviewed this album

9/10

Dot Music

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This is a record that will happen to you, and when it clicks, the realisation that As I Am is a genuine classic is overwhelming.

8/10

The New York Times

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As I Am radiates not just confidence but also experience. On the whole it’s her strongest effort yet.

8/10

Blender

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The music is dizzying, even mesmerizing.

8/10

Billboard

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The strong stories that Keys spins are complemented by deft musical arrangements that integrate more rock and pop into her enriched old-school vibe.

8/10

Spin

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On her melodically powerful third studio album, she matures into the matriarch of her genre. [Dec 2007, p.120]

8/10

Slant Magazine

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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.

8/10

Village Voice

As I Am--very much an album about the condition her condition is in, very much an album in the old-fashioned sense, a complete work: one you shouldn't subject to shuffle before you've given Keys's sequencing a chance to work its magic, its rising and

7.5/10

Entertainment Weekly

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Despite Perry's penchant for bland mantras, her American Idol-ready songs best showcase Keys' husky range and position her in a mainstream light.

7/10

Paste Magazine

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Alicia Keys’ third studio album is an exercise in tightening the screws.

7/10

Boston Globe

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Keys's tunes sing as strongly as she does. Alas, she still relies too often on sloganeering.

7/10

All Music Guide

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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

7/10

Observer Music Monthly

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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. If you can listen to that fluting,

6.5/10

Austin Chronicle

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New York City soulstresses born in January a decade apart ('71 and '80, respectively), Mary J. Blige and Alicia Keys flex their commercial empowerment in passionate opposition. Yonkers street survivor Blige and Manhattan piano prodigy Keys presently

6/10

New Musical Express

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As I Am sees the piano songstress breaking free of her saccharine chains and delivering a streetwise, smoky set of real soul.

6/10

Sputnikmusic

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Despite the consistency--the one area in which she's improved--it's almost certainly the weakest and most irrelevant album she's produced.

6/10

Rolling Stone

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Despite substantial input from Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, the rapper boyfriend Keys says she made wait a year to get down, the prevailing mood is reflectively soulful and the prevailing tempo mid.

6/10

Hartford Courant

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'Like You'll Never See Me Again' is a reminder, amidst the clutter of many cooks on As I Am, that perhaps Keys was best as she was, after all.

6/10

Mojo

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The follow-up to 2003's "The Diary Of Alicia Keys" has lots of confidence and volume, but less of the shades in between. [Dec 2007, p.98]

4/10

The Guardian

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Her fourth album starts well with the flashing anger of 'Go Ahead,' but only the Stax-sampling 'Where Do We Go From Here' is half as interesting.

4/10

Q Magazine

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Lacking the chutzpah of Beyonce or a signature voice to rival Mary J Blige, it's another curiously polite mix of soul and pop hip hop. [Dec 2007, p.118]

4/10

Uncut

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This seems geared for maximum market penetration rather than songwriting excellence. [Jan 2008, p.91]

2/10

NOW Magazine

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Without any clever arrangements or production gimmicks to rely on, Keys tries to compensate for the obvious shortcomings by oversinging each syllable in a way that would make Patti LaBelle cringe.

User Comments

jenrls

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(2)
Oct 25, 2008 at 03:00 AM

this is the best album!! I listen 2 it daily!!! theres not a bad song on it!!

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_Natasha_

down up

(1)
Sep 14, 2008 at 05:52 PM

great album,alicia did great job,my favourite is teenage love affair))))

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