Alicia Keys New Album 2015 Will Be A Concept Album About Female Empowerment and Personal Change

Alicia Keys New Album 2015: Alicia Keys is set to release a new album in 2015. Alicia Keys says she is working hard, writing and recording the new record, which will be a full concept album, rather than a collection of unrelated songs. Keys says her main focus and themes will be built around women

Women's Wear Daily spoke with Alicia Keys about her new beauty campaign as the face of Givenchy's latest fragrance, but of course, the talk steered to the new album.

"With this album, I find I have much more I want to talk about,"Keys told Women's Wear Daily.. "This album is more about the concept, the thought I'm trying to get across, where in the past it's been more about the melody. This time it's more about what we're going through as human beings."

The new Alicia Keys album will also chronicle changes in the singer's life. In 2010, Keys married the artist Swizz Beatz. Their marriage and then-unborn child were blessed in a Zulu ceremony. Keys gave birth to their son Egypt Daoud Ibarr Dean in October of that year.

Alicia Keys hasn't had a new album in two years, "Girl On Fire." The "New York" singer is promising that her next album will be a fully cohesive piece, not just a bunch of well, great songs, evocative vocals and classy piano.

"The songs concentrate on concepts like that. As human beings, we like to identify with something, and as for me, I love people with a strong point of view," she told Women's Wear Daily.

Alicia Keys new album is tentatively scheduled to be released sometime in early 2015.

"As artists, we stopped making albums and began making singles," she said. "Obviously record companies need to go where the business is, so we started making singles. Which is cool, but there's something so amazing about an entire body of work, a collective view, that sense that all of this music came from one artist."

"With this album, I find I have much more I want to talk about. This album is more about the concept, the thought I'm trying to get across, where in the past it's been more about the melody. This time it's more about what we're going through as human being," Keys said.

Keys says that, since iTunes, the music industry has been all about the singles.

"This time it's more about what we're going through as human beings. We all experience similar things. I find that the world puts us in these boxes where we're only allowed to be one way - like, 'to succeed as a career woman, you need to do it this way,' or 'to be a gay man, you have to be this way.'"

 "Obviously record companies need to go where the business is, so we started making singles, which is cool, but there's something so amazing about an entire body of work, a collective view, that sense that all of this music came from one artist," Keys told Women's Wear Daily.

The album isn't finished yet, but Kays says "Killing Your Mother" is already her favorite song. But don't take it literally.

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