Have I mentioned yet that I am utterly swooning over Alicia Keys' new song "Empire State Of Mind: Part II"? It's got a beautiful piano composition, Alicia's stellar soaring vocals, and the lyrics are truly inspiring. It's the sort of song that totally re-affirmed my love for her musical genius (the constant replaying on the radio of "No One" was really starting to turn me off from her). I've been listening to the song on repeat- and enjoying the wonderful live version featuring a rapping Stephen Colbert doing the original part of Jay-Z (anytime Stephen raps is awesomesauce, obviously).
Today I stumbled over a forum with these pictures and the title "Alicia Keys hates shaving". (Side note: I hate claims like these; no interview or quote with her talking about shaving, only the assumption that hairy legs must always mean the owner of said legs dislikes shaving, which certainly isn't true!). A lot of things jump out at me from the main picture: that dress is gorgeous!, her waist sure is tiny!, those are pretty high shoes,! I don't like her hair parted in the middle like that, she looks like she's giving a dynamite performance.
But, of course, the only focus of the forum posters were her legs, or, more specifically, her leg hair, so apparent in these pictures thanks to the backlighting provided at concerts. Another blogger even went so far as to decry this horrendous (in her eyes) faux-pas and post a poll weighing the relative evils of hairy legs vs. jumpsuits.
I, for one, think she looks wonderful, and the hair on her legs looks cute and fuzzy. She joins a trend, it would seem, of African American celebrity women with hairy or hairier legs (Beyonce
and Monique come to mind . . . I wonder if it's significant, or just a coincidence?).
Either way, Alicia has offended the body hair police before, by having fine, light hairs on her chest/breasts.
And, despite having high-resolution pictures of her every follicle dissected and criticized, the girl keeps on singing amazing songs and looking gorgeous and bein' all successful and happy. Between her and the people who spend their time commenting on these photos saying "Gross!", it's pretty easy to see who is the real winner.
Today I stumbled over a forum with these pictures and the title "Alicia Keys hates shaving". (Side note: I hate claims like these; no interview or quote with her talking about shaving, only the assumption that hairy legs must always mean the owner of said legs dislikes shaving, which certainly isn't true!). A lot of things jump out at me from the main picture: that dress is gorgeous!, her waist sure is tiny!, those are pretty high shoes,! I don't like her hair parted in the middle like that, she looks like she's giving a dynamite performance.
But, of course, the only focus of the forum posters were her legs, or, more specifically, her leg hair, so apparent in these pictures thanks to the backlighting provided at concerts. Another blogger even went so far as to decry this horrendous (in her eyes) faux-pas and post a poll weighing the relative evils of hairy legs vs. jumpsuits.
I, for one, think she looks wonderful, and the hair on her legs looks cute and fuzzy. She joins a trend, it would seem, of African American celebrity women with hairy or hairier legs (Beyonce
and Monique come to mind . . . I wonder if it's significant, or just a coincidence?).Either way, Alicia has offended the body hair police before, by having fine, light hairs on her chest/breasts.
And, despite having high-resolution pictures of her every follicle dissected and criticized, the girl keeps on singing amazing songs and looking gorgeous and bein' all successful and happy. Between her and the people who spend their time commenting on these photos saying "Gross!", it's pretty easy to see who is the real winner.
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