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Am I the only one who reads this excerpt from an interview with Alicia Keys and thinks she’s gay (and closeted, at least for image)?
Keys acknowledged that she’s been with the same person for quite some time now, and that she sees herself as being with that same person when she starts a family. Is that person Krucial, Jane asked point blank?
“Well. Well … You know, I have to say, the person I’m with is really special,” Keys said after smiling playfully. “And I’m lucky because when I go out with friends to parties, I say to myself, ‘Self, what in the hell would you do if you didn’t have somebody who loved you?’ I mean, really. I look at these guys and it’s like, ‘Who are you? What do you even think about and what are you representing? Do you even know me? And do you want to know me or … ?’ It’s scary. And I think about how uncomfortable I would feel trying to find love among so much falseness. So I feel very, very, very blessed to have someone so special to me. Someone who I know cares about me. That’s what it’s about. I’m pretty lucky.”
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong or weird or titillating about the news, but when people start talking about “the person” they are with and make no reference, ever, to gender, I just assume that they are gay. Unthinking middle managers and the suits in the industry think that this wouldn’t go over well in the R&B community, and not to put too fine a point on it, but the black community is notoriously homophobic, so I can understand why she would be coy. Even the headline of the piece, “Alicia Keys Nearly Spills Secrets To Jane” seems to me a too-cute-by-half hint at what the writer thinks.
Anyway, it’s neither here nor there. I hope her next album is composed in a few different modalities than A-minor.