Friday, October 30, 2009
Music Jay-Z and Alicia Keys Overcome the Worst Sound in the History of Sound, Kill It at World Series
Posted by Mike Conklin on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:56 AM
There is simply no excuse for the sound on last night's Jay-Z/Alicia Keys performance of "Empire State of Mind" before game two of the World Series being as abysmal as it was. But there's also simply no logical explanation for how there came to be a song that is this awesome. The first time she comes in with the chorus? Chills, yo. (Still rooting for the Phillies, though.)
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music videos have trailers now, apparently, and here's the one for the upcoming "Empire State of Mind" video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVazMR9t81Q
Joba Chamberlain being an enormous douchebag at 2:47.
around 1:14 is my favorite part "yes!!" I have a question for the camera guy at 1:50-2:00- can you just get a little bit closer to Alicia's butt? whoa man, control yourself! I wonder if they talked about that post-show. Big discussion point in my household...
Also I have to say this is just an amazing song (and this is a great version, even with the sound issues). You could listen to this over and over and it doesn't get old. Headline shoud be "Jay-Z inspires Yankees to Game 2 Win", they should play this after every win if they don't already.
No - Alicia actually has some musical ability, and some ability on the piano. Her first album was good. Since then....she's failed to demonstrate her talent. This "performance" was no exception. The band was was terrible. Yes the sound system was bad:) ....but with that aside, the only impressive thing was Alicia's singing. Alicia's no great singer -- but it was mostly in tune, which is very rare in popular entertainment. A musician can stand in one place on the stage, and sing....and, even with a bad sound system will sound great, b/c musicians habitually are shooting to hit each note right in the middle. Some of the repeated G#'s that she sang hit the sweet spot, and were very resonant. Nearly all popular "entertainers" have no clue what they are doing (music or performance-wise), and are either very sharp, very flat, in the wrong key, or simply are all over the place:)
I didn't see the point of the piano, as I had to strain to hear it, and she did not play anything challenging, that demonstrates her ability. She's no great pianist, but she is average....and she needs to find that again. .....and stop selling out with all this simplistic entertainment. It was soooo repetitive....this takes no thought, whatsoever. Anyone can do that easy stuff. I don't say this often about popular entertainers, but she can do better.
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