Alicia Keys Opens Up About The Pressures Of Perfection
Many of the songs on her new album are inspired by this feeling of masking, or hiding, oneself. “Before I started my new album, I wrote a list of all the things that I was sick of. And one was how much women are brainwashed into feeling like we have to be skinny, or sexy, or desirable, or perfect. One of the many things I was tired of was the constant judgment of women,”
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