One Track Sunday: Alicia Keys Proves She's A Girl On Fire

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By Jessica Rawden
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Alicia Keys is a really big fan of debuting songs on momentous occasions. At this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, the singer debuted “Girl on Fire,” a song which she performed with Nicki Minaj. While Minaj is present on a verse in the remix of the song, the original version is all powerhouse vocals, and the recently created music video for the track really focuses on that aspect. "Girl on Fire" also notes the singer’s classic beauty as she sings about her experiences as a mother and a career woman.

Weirdly, half of the video for “Girl on Fire” features an emboldened, overly sexual version of the singer, lounging against walls and near windows (I would kill for that maroon wallpaper, by the way). Oddly enough, the other half features her as a domestic worker, cleaning, or as a caretaker of the elderly and the young. That can-do attitude permeates the latter half of the track with no solution, but Keys’ voice is so smooth, it almost doesn’t matter.

“Girl on Fire” is from Keys’ upcoming fifth studio album, which will also be titled Girl on Fire. The track is the lead single off of the album, but you can check out the full tracklist over at Rap-up. Girl on Fire will be released on November 27, 2012.

Jessica Rawden
Jessica Rawden
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Jessica Rawden is Managing Editor at CinemaBlend. She’s been kicking out news stories since 2007 and joined the full-time staff in 2014. She oversees news content, hiring and training for the site, and her areas of expertise include theme parks, rom-coms, Hallmark (particularly Christmas movie season), reality TV, celebrity interviews and primetime. She loves a good animated movie. Jessica has a Masters in Library Science degree from Indiana University, and used to be found behind a reference desk most definitely not shushing people. She now uses those skills in researching and tracking down information in very different ways.