Unplugged

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共16首歌曲

艺人: Alicia Keys
语种: 英语
厂牌: J Records
发行时间: 2005年10月07日
专辑类别: 现场专辑

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著名“MTV台不插电”现场录音专辑@布鲁克林音乐学院，当代最美丽的歌声传奇，最让人心动的原音重现。

连续两张专辑《A小调之歌》、《情韵心声》以及与亚瑟小子的冠军合唱《我的宝贝》，总共夺下九座葛莱美奖，艾莉西亚·凯斯(Alicia Keys)可说是当今歌坛天之骄女，今年时代杂志的“当代百位影响世界人物”就评选艾莉西亚是当今对世界最具影响力的人物之一，和欧普拉、前后美国总统、克林伊斯威特、希拉蕊史旺克、杰米福克斯等共享殊荣，艾莉西亚更是这份名单上唯一入选的女歌手。

而今年MTV音乐频道则力邀能唱能弹的艾莉西亚凯斯演出该台招牌经典节目“原音重现”Unplugged，不仅让拥有16年历史的“原音重现”以全新面貌重新江湖，艾莉西亚也是该节目从2002年五月杰斯〈Jay-Z〉后，历时三年的等待与寻找才能登台演唱的首位歌手。

“原音重现”过去创造包括艾力克莱普顿、超脱合唱团、玛丽亚凯莉等历史经典画面，还带动了一股“原音革命”潮流，所有歌手都视此种“不插电”表演为现场演唱的最高殿堂，因此，艾莉西亚此番豋场被视为今年歌坛的重要事件。

艾莉西亚凯斯的演出是在七月份于布鲁克林音乐学院录制，为了这次演唱艾莉西亚完全展现她过人的才情，她除了把自己一连串的作品全新用现场演唱的方式呈现，还找来师弟“魔力红”乐团主唱亚当和她合唱滚石合唱团的经典名曲“野马”〈Wild Horses〉，另外艾莉西亚还邀请了嘻哈/节奏蓝调界三大才子和她合作，包括艾莉西亚凯斯“陌生人”〈You Don’t Know My Name〉MV男主角摩斯戴夫〈Mos Def〉、今年快速窜红的凡夫俗子〈Common〉以及一代雷鬼宗师巴布马利之子戴米恩马利〈Damian Marley〉，除了在音乐上过招外，一口气就有四大型男替艾莉西亚站台，也形成众星拱月的特殊景象。

不过即使艾莉西亚凯斯这场表演赢得MTV音乐频道一致好评，总裁克莉丝汀〈Christina Norman〉也认为只有艾莉西亚完全符合“原音重现”的精神，但是她还留下遗憾，搞了半天原本歌坛两位大老“工人皇帝”布鲁斯史宾斯汀和滚石合唱团的齐斯理查〈Keith Richards〉原先要来现场和艾莉西亚合作，但刚好那天布鲁斯的行程无法配合录影，而齐斯则是要负责滚石合唱团巡演，两老和艾莉西亚有缘没份，“当我知道没乔成，我都快哭出来了！”但两位大哥却对艾莉西亚照顾有佳，“我从没想过能和自己的偶像接触，而他们对我就像朋友一样，让我真的受宠若惊。”

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Forget that it's awfully hard to call this live recording Unplugged. Unlike the early installments of the MTV series, which focused on a performer accompanied only with an acoustic guitar, resulting in unsurprisingly simple affairs, Alicia Keys' Unplugged is big, splashy, and immodest -- even if her guitarist is playing acoustic and she plays a piano, not a synth, the extra vocalists, horn section, strings, and full rhythm section complete with electric bass makes this anything but "unplugged." But that doesn't really matter, since this is presented and marketed as a live album more than an acoustic record, and, as a live album, it's OK. Certainly, Keys and her 16 supporting musicians are professionals and they deliver tight, polished grooves, giving her plenty of space to improv and vamp, which is in contrast to her controlled studio albums. But that's not the only way Unplugged differs from Keys' other two albums. This, more than either Songs in A Minor or The Diary, illustrates why Alicia Keys fits into the post-hip-hop soul world: she places groove and feel above the song. Nowhere is this more evident than her version here of Prince's "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore" (which she straightens out and truncates to "How Come You Don't Call Me") where she speeds along to the bridge after singing the first verse, then just dispenses with the song altogether, spending the rest of the time vamping, occasionally going back to the bridge. Since she sounds good and the band sounds good, this works pretty well on a sheer sonic level -- it's good late-night mood music -- but there's no sense of storytelling or momentum to her performances: she starts the song in one place and stays there riding in circles until the end. With the exception of her duet with Maroon 5's Adam Levine on the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" -- duets, by their very nature, necessitate that they be performed as complete songs -- that's true of nearly every cut here, whether they're originals or covers; the songs are stripped down to their hooks and grooves. Over these rhythmic vamps, Keys does have some impressive vocal runs where she departs from the original melody and glides by on the sheer sound of her voice, but when the songs are reduced to the their bare essence, her vocalizing doesn't become a way of telling a story, it becomes the reason she's playing music in the first place. While that doesn't make for a bad listen -- she has genuine talent as a singer and her band is sleek and skilled, so they can sell this supple, seductive sound quite well -- it doesn't make for a particularly compelling one, either.

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