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I wish I could get this signed but at least the vinyl is here. I will be purchasing this vinyl and I will play the hell out of it. Through your music, I learned to love hard, to be kind, real, to treat women, to dig deep.

I’m just thankful God put this music in your heart because it changed everything for me. I could go on and on about how much this album and era meant to me. I know have a tattoo that says RISE on my neck in homage to her.

Caged Bird was my introduction to Maya Angelou as well. I honestly don’t have a least favorite song but I loved Troubles, The Life, Butterflyz, Never Felt This Way, Lovin’ U and Caged Bird. Times were hard and your album helped me put a lot of conflicting emotions in perspective. One day my brother had a meltdown one day and literally slammed it on the concrete in broad daylight LOL.So what did I do? Hustled and bought another copy. Man, I played this album so much that the cassette distorted, LOL. I knew I that I would listen to this album forever. The lyrics, productions, dialogue honestly made this an instant classic. I knew you would deliver because Fallin literally shifted the entire R&B landscape… but when I played this album… even at a young age I knew that you were so gifted. It feels just like yesterday 12-year-old me was hustling folks for a dollar so I could be buy this cassette tape at our local record store. It’s hard to believe 20 years has passed. Yooo! I’m shook and so happy that you still take such pride in this masterpiece of an album that changed so many lives. In short, there’s ample evidence of Keys continuing down a fairly circumspect path here, but also plenty to remind us how she got here in the first place, with some of the year’s finest songs to boot.Alicia, you read my mind! It’s hard trying to find SIAM on vinyl and I was just thinking how dope it would be for you to re-release this on vinyl with GREEN pressings (similar to the pattern behind the jewel case on SIAM). The same goes for the supple "Love When You Call My Name" and "Daffodils", acoustic songs which deliver on intimacy and rich melodies. With some jazz-lounge piano, lightly tapped drums and some actual vinyl crackle, the depth and versatility of her voice is on vivid display. ‘Is It Insane’ is Ella Fitzgerald cosplay, plain and simple, but my god does Keys play the part well. The best songs here are absolutely, sonically at least, the safest. In fact, for an artist whose biggest criticisms are for playing it safe too often, there is strong evidence against that here. Some of the songs are better than the originals, others almost ruin them, but certainly no two versions are so essential that they both needed to be included, making this a 90 minute epic in the process. The remix of "Skydive" and "Best Of Me" though change so little that you have to squint to spot the difference. She was listed twice as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People. The singer was interested in music from an early childhood, which led her to learn the music of the different genres. There’s the random inclusion of a new song, "Lala" - a slick Swae Lee-featuring cut which should have been on the main-album - while Lil Wayne is added to "Nat King Cole" to provide the spice the original lacked. Alicia Keys, the American Musician, was born on 25th January 1981 in New York City, New York, US, as Alicia Augello Cook.

The second half of the record is a re-do of the first, with so called “Unlocked” versions of the first side’s tracks which usually comprise of either dance or rap remixes of the “Originals”. Then there’s the double-album concept (yes, Keys is a double album), which I won’t spend many words on because the venture itself seems fairly pointless.

On the other hand, there are the tunes which remind of the unexciting reputation Keys has developed for herself, like the forgettable "Old Memories" or the paper-thin "Billions". Then she glides elegantly around the trap cadences of "Skydive" just after. The album starts with an icy verse from Pusha T, and Keys proves as she did with JAY Z that she’s adept at complimenting the machismo of a bravado MC. A veteran of pop charts, and with assistance from superstar producer Mike WiLL Made-It, Keys feels completely at home surrounded by modern chart-stylings nearly two decades into her career. A broody, Sade-sampling cut which conjures an ice-cold vibe through clattering, propulsive drums and a deep bed of whirring synths it’s simple, but conjures one hell of a mood with it. The music here is hardly groundbreaking, but songs like "Best Of Me" aren’t for that anyway.