As I Am by Alicia KeysJason's rating: 2.5 stars

-Jason Gilmore (intrepidmedia.com)

A rhetorical question: Are people are more in love with the "idea" of Alicia Keys than the actual person? Sure, she's gorgeous and plays the piano and puts on one hell of a live show and has at least three songs ("Fallin'," "You Don't Know My Name," and "If I Ain't Got You") that are instant classics by almost any definition. Still, her hype is disproportionate to her consistency. While that's not necessarily her fault, the hope was that her third studio album -- the revealingly titled As I Am -- was where all the scattered fragments of her potential would finally bloom.

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