2 posts tagged “timbaland”
Absolutely astounding how much Alicia Keys has matured as a songwriter on her latest album, "As I Am". Of course this is the one that was custom0made for me -- it's got a great lift of the piano part from the outro to "Purple Rain", along with the classic Purple Rain chord transition, and it's produced by Timbaland. And the video's got Common as Alicia's boyfriend. What's not to love?
Speaking of Timberlake, that brings us inevitably to Timbaland. After the fawning over Rick Rubin in the New York Times, it's amazing that there hasn't been a similarly high-profile profile of the best producer working in pop music today.
Until then, this piece from The Wire should do nicely, even though it's nine (!) years old. The article comes courtesy of Sasha-Frere Jones, both for blogging its reappearance online and for writing it in the first place.
