You can support two of many charitable organizations that are helping victims and first responders during this difficult time - Feeding America and First Responders Children's Foundation. While the set was recently pushed back to May 15, the singer is still marching forward with her new memoir, More Myself, which drops on Tuesday via Flatiron. "Underdog" was co-written by Ed Sheeran and serves as the newest single from her upcoming LP, ALICIA. "So I sing a song for the hustlers trading at the bus stop/ Single mothers waiting on a check to come/ Young teachers, student doctors/ People on the front line knowing they don't get to run/ This goes out to the underdog," she crooned during the hook. So grateful."įor the number, viewers saw Keys churn out a stripped-down version of the track directly from her Los Angeles living room, tweaking the lyrics to pay homage to the individuals battling against the coronavirus pandemic. "I'd like to dedicate this song to the first responders and medical professionals that are risking their life to keep us safe. My hope is that we remember how resilient we are and how we defy the odds," Keys said while playing the opening piano notes of the empowering track.
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I love you so much.In an effort to honor the folks risking their lives to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Alicia Keys kicked off the iHeartRadio Living Room Concert for America on the right note on Sunday night (March 29).ĭuring the one-hour TV special, the superstar led a pack of performances, which also included Elton John, Mariah Carey and Billie Eilish, and she did so with her all-too-appropriate single, "Underdog." "This song is like a prayer. She's also a mother, as she reminded the crowd when she invited her two small sons to the stage to accept flowers and plant kisses on their heads.īefore singing her closing crowd-pleasing classic, If I Ain't Got You, she left the captivated audience with a final uplifting message from the piano bench. Over the dizzying past two decades of her career, Keys has become a global pop and R&B icon – as well as a bestselling memoir author, actress, activist, entrepreneur, Grammy host, philanthropist and pioneer of a #nomakeup in public trend. Keys has said she felt the new tracks ushered her into more confidence and clarity, describing the album once as feeling just completely "comfortable in my skin." Keys' previous album Alicia, released in the thick of the pandemic last year, focused on more topical and raw themes, with vulnerable confessions and references to virus-battered health workers and ordinary people's struggles to scrape by. But the Unlocked tracks offer a surprisingly distinct and stylised twist. Much of the new material maintains her characteristic R&B backbone and themes of soul-searching, desire and devotion. Her Dubai set also featured hits like Girl on Fire, Empire State of Mind and New Day, booming anthems to which the audience danced and sang along wholeheartedly. "Tell me which version you like better," she said before performing starkly different versions of the same track, one swooning and one synthesised, asking for the audience's preferences through their cheers. She presented the album's premise to the crowd as an experiment on Friday night.
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