"Hello, you young fans of TRL! Here's a big beautiful smile for all of you wonderful idiots! Keep buying my albums!" Aww, I'm just kidding. Alicia Keys probably isn't thinking that about the hordes of fans gathered outside of TRL to cheer her on. Me, on the other hand--I would totally be thinking that. But it's probably just because I'm bitter that I've slowly but surely aged right out of MTV's target demographic and it totally shows. Ms. Keys looks very light-hearted, but she claims that she has only been able to successfully juggle her personal life with her highly ambitious hopes for her career once her grandmother became very sick with cancer.
"That's exactly what it was. That's why I had to totally, completely stop. I'm used to constantly going on to the next thing, but I realized at that moment, 'Man, this is it, this is all I have.'"Keys says that it was this experience that slowed down her "relentless" attempts to stay at the top of the music industry and focus on matters near and dear to her heart--like her family. Good for her. Again, we differ on this point. I've actually had to have the conversation where I explain to my grandmother that as much as I love her, blogging is a competitive industry and I have to do what I have to in order to stay at the top of my game and that's why I forgot to send her a birthday card and would she please stop looking at me with those big, sad eyes, dammit.
Photos: INFDaily.com
More photos of Alicia Keys giving off some loving from the balcony of TRL Italy after the jump.
Photos: INFDaily.com
peggy says:
I've noticed a change in Alicia's appearance since she's emerged the last few months.
Maybe a little plastic surgery? She definitely looks better whatever she did.