The follow-up to Alicia Keys’ As I Am is apparently coming out in November, and the first single from it is “Doesn’t Mean Anything,” a tune with sad-sack lyrics and a melody that, it has to be said, sounds awfully similar to her single from two years ago “No One.” What’s with all this recycling going on lately? Are we really getting that close to the end of the world that we’re just running out of ways to creatively rearrange musical atoms? Not to be apocalyptic, but I mean, the greater ramifications of this problem are worth considering! Clip after the jump.
Alicia Keys - Doesn’t Mean Anything [YouTube]
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Alicia Keys’ New Single Sure Sounds Like An Alicia Keys Song
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Especially disheartening as the second I heard “No One” I thought it was a note-for-note lift of BEP’s “Where is the Love?” This one song is six years long.
“No One” is from TWO YEARS ago? Dang.
Also, I think this song is a whole lot better than “No One”. That one had a sort of plodding one-notiness that made it unlistenable to me. This one has a lighter touch and a better melodic sensibility. I can’t see it becoming very popular, though– it sounds way too lite-rock to fit in on pop radio, and it doesn’t have the histrionics of something like “Bleeding Love”.
I like her, but this is a disappointment. It sounds like “No One” except more boring and with worse lyrics.