[Mears]

Good for her.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Couldn’t get out of her contract, eh?

[cripplecreek]

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is leading a trade mission to Israel today. I’m a little surprised his friends in Ann Arbor aren’t screeching about it.

[teeman8r]

that girl is on FIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYERRRRRRRRR.

[DoughtyOne]

Good for Miss Keys.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Paying to download one of her songs right now. Anyone else?

[MaxMax]

[Shery]

Shery’s daughter here. I have been a big fan of Alicia Keys for years. Proud of her for making that stance. We need to support her, as she’ll likely be getting rail-roaded for taking this position. If we giver her this support, it just might give her courage to continue standing her ground on this issue.

[Sheapdog]

Good for her. I love Floyd’s stuff from late 60’s - early 70’s. Pre-dark side preferably. Waters was an integral part of that. Gilmour was really what made them though. At least Gilmour has tact and stays out of all this stuff. I realize people change a lot and not for the better. Even more ironic is Waters and people in his generation growing up in aftermath of WW2 and now siding with fascist Arabs against Israel and the Jewish people for their desire to live in peace in their rightful homeland.

[JerseyHighlander]

If your into this sort of thing, compare the life of Alicia and the life of Lauryn Hill,

Alicia was lucky to have been guided by some well meaning veterans of the music world, and Lauryn was attracted to radicalized activists who gave her really bad advice.

Hill is now going to jail for tax fraud.
Keys is set for another few record contracts.

Grew up 20 miles apart
both young tv actresses
both came out of h.s. as musical phenoms
both accepted to same music program at Columbia U, both dropped out in first year
both got shafted by first record label.
both spent their nights playing at same bars in Greenwich Village,

A local kid in my area was on one of those vocalist talent tv shows recently, these two were used as examples on the various paths he can take going forward.

[SeminoleCounty]

Wow .....and she has worked with some of the most racist Black crap hop rappers.....hope she does not get her career jacked by the anti Semites

[Lurking Libertarian]

"I was thinkin' 'bout Alicia Keys, couldn't keep from crying
But she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line
I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be
I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee"
-- Bob Dylan, Thunder on the Mountain