Alicia Keys has established herself as an increasingly rare thing in pop music: “The class act.” It’s made her a consistently gratifying album artist, if not always an immediately dazzling one.
The Element of Freedom’s fist single, the pensive love-is-the-drug ballad “Doesn’t Mean Anything,” seemed to get lost among its more aggressive chart peers when it [...]

Ah, the 2009 American Music Awards; (ABC Sunday November 22) they are neither as prestigious as the Grammy’s nor as cool as the VMA’s. Since no one really seems to care who takes home the trophies, the ceremony is all about the all-star performances.
The highlights will be Lady Gaga, the American Idol Alums you [...]