|
Alicia Keys: You Don't Know My Name (J)
|
|
By Afsheen Shaikh
|
|
|
|
Monday, 08 December 2003
 Ms Keys is back to tinkle the ivories and yawn, it's another slushy fest of R&B and soul drenched with Motown. 'You Don't Know My Name', based on a situation most of us will admit to, is about fantasising about someone you like. In a nutshell. What it would be like to go out with them, what you would like to do, what they would sound like but you don't know their name. You get the picture. Now imagine that with Keys luscious vocals with lots of oohs sprinkled generously and there you go, an overly-sweet latté with too much froth.
She even drops in a toe-curling telephone conversation - role-playing herself as a waitress in some down-town diner with braids, who plucks up the courage to call the man she fancies and wants to ask out. It goes on for too long, engulfing the parts where she sings.
Sexy, pretty and certainly no dumb schmuck but a paltry technique in the art of seduction.
(2/5)
Release Date: 08 December 2003
 You Don't Know My Name |
| |
Music 
