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Keys' newest flows well, but still average.(TimeOut)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 12/18/2009; 598 words; ...mediocre, like the first single, the empty-sounding "Doesn't Mean Anything." Even her duet with Beyonc on the Swizz Beatz-produced "Put It In a Love Song" is a disappointment u it's an amateurish dance tune on which the guest overpowers the...

Review: Keys' newest flows well, but still average
AP Worldstream; 12/18/2009; 640 words; ...the first single, the empty-sounding "Doesn't Mean Anything." Even her duet with Beyonce on the Swizz Beatz-produced "Put It In a Love Song," is a disappointment _ it's an amateurish dance tune on which the guest...

Alicia Keys The anti-gossip girl She writes all her own songs, can play them live and has never been seen emerging from a club looking the worse for wear. Angus Batey meets that rare thing: a pop star who rules with talent alone
The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/13/2009; 2477 words; ...was has been neatly evaded. But recently she has been linked to - and photographed with - hip-hop producer Kasseem 'Swizz Beatz' Dean, with whom she wrote Whitney Houston's comeback single Million Dollar Bill. On Keys's new album, The Element of...

soundwaves.(Daily Break)
The Virginian Pilot; 12/11/2009; 1163 words; ...all set to repetitive music. Case in point, "I Can Transform Ya," Brown's opening, so-so single with a stale Swizz Beatz beat and predictable Lil Wayne cameo. We apparently blinked when Brown became a sexual being of drinking age, because on...

A swing and a miss for Brown
Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 12/3/2009; 710 words; ...Attempting to expand his reach beyond the core R&B fan base, Brown and a top-dollar team of producers including Swizz Beatz and Polow Da Don veer wildly from the singer's strengths to dabble in half-hearted, contrived and AutoTune-drenched experiments...