Time Machine – Alicia Keys

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“Fear of what's in the mirror / So much to be afraid of / Scared of what we're made of / And what we might be”

Everyone knows Alicia Keys. 15-time Grammy Award winner. Sold over 30 million albums.

Alicia Keys is underrated.

She can sang, plays the piano like it’s her last name, and is one of the best R&B songwriters and producers in this generation. She’s one of those artists that are so good we take her for granted. How fitting that her latest track is called “Time Machine”, because that’s what I feel like I’m in when I listen to her. She is a throwback to when R&B was artful and memorable. This song in particular was clearly inspired by 70’s funk, 80’s Michael Jackson pop, and 90’s Bad Boy hip-hop. You almost expect Mase to hop on the track with Puffy ad libs in the background.

“Young life flies out the window / It's not the time that changed us / It's the dreams that we weren't chasing / Come back to haunt us, eventually”

“Time Machine” is all about living in the present, taking advantage of the time we have left. Good jobs enable you to do just that. Bad jobs actively fight against that concept. Is it time to quit?

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About the Curator - Ben Young:

Ben Young lives a life of polarity. He has split his life between the coasts: half his life on the West (California) and half on the East (Georgia and Virginia). He has pursued careers in the art world (film school graduate) and the corporate world (executive with Fortune 500 companies). And he is Biracial, the personification of being two things at once.

Ben’s musical influences were formed by music loving parents, raised in a world of John Coltrane and John Lennon, James Taylor and James Ingram, Huey Lewis and the News and Prince and the Revolution. Saxophones, electric guitars, synthesizers, and breakbeats filled the air Ben breathed from birth. And being born one year after the birth of Hip Hop, Ben has been joined at the hip with the genre his entire life.