Watch: Alicia Keys Blazes ‘Girl On Fire’ (With A Twist) For Presidential Inaugural Ball

Obama’s on fire!

Those were the words recently belted by a certain 14-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys.  One of many acts on hand to serenade the First Family for the inauguration of their return to the White House, Keys lent a fiery version of her most recent #1 album’s title track – ‘Girl On Fire’.

This time, however, with a twist to commemorate the occasion.  See it all below:



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  1. BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

    THE BEST! RIHANNA SIT DOWN!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

      And for the Navy out there – Your shade means s*** all

      • B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

        NAVY IS F****** MESSY I HATE THEM

      • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

        Haha yeah me too! That Navy need to take notes from Beyoncé. And it’s funny… ROC NATION (Owned by Jay-Z) and earnings made all go towards KING B’S Nails getting done…

      • Lax January 22, 2013

        @BEY HIVE,,,,,THE NAVY WILL FOREVER AND A DAY
        Keep yo Asses “CORKED & SCREWED”.

      • Lax January 22, 2013

        Alicia showed up and showed all the way out, at the night time, Gala they didn’t want that dam BEYONCE STRIPPER” ON THE GREOUNDS COME NIGHT BECAUSE SHE DON’T
        KNOW HOW TO KEEP HER LEGS CLOSED, FROM POPPING HER BIG FAT PUS CAT,,,,

      • Lax January 22, 2013

        Obama’s White House got Beyonce out of their and cleared the
        Air for JENNIFER HUDSON , ALICIA, KATY PERRY, JAMIE AND OTHERS, BECAUSE THE WHIT HOUSE DIDN’T WANT TO HAVE TO ISSUE A “SPOILER ALERT” .

    • SIP YOUR PEPSI AND WATCH YOUR B**** FLOP IN 2013!!! WHILE RIHANNA SLAYS!!! January 21, 2013

      GOOD CUS WE HATE YALL FAT F***** ASSES TO!! WE WILL KEEP RIHANNA AT THE TOP OF THE HOT 100 CHART AND GLOBAL CHARTS!! YALL B****** GONNA HATE US MORE WHEN STAY AND POUR IT UP SLAYS!! AND YOU SEE RIHANNAS FACE ON CHANEL AND VICTORIA SECRET! LOL!!

      • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

        Hahaha Sit the f*** down. You clearly have too much of a disposable income to waste money on what you deaf shits claim to hear as music.

        Anybody can take clothes off and then go into a studio to sing a song that was written. produced & arranged by someone else (also then to have vocals fixed for CD)

        You are a f****** idiot… Nothing is gonna slay. Generic S*** FAILS

      • B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

        F*** R**** B**** ASS ID KICK THAT H** IN THE FACE IF I EVER SEEN HER & SPIT IN THE HER FACE SHE WORTHLESS DOESN’T DESERVE FAME SHE HAS NO TALENT F**

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        bernon is that you

      • Lax January 22, 2013

        YO ASSES CAN SAY F** R**** ALL YOU WANT AND R****
        WILL STILL BE THE ARTIST WHO’S NAMED WITH THE QUEEN OF POP BY BILLBOARD FOR THE LAST TWO DECADES OR LAST 20 YEARS, BYTCHES,,,,,
        http://acharts.us/performer/beyonce
        and then add “Live At Roaslin” which makes beyonce have dropped one album more then Rihanna has even with her 7 drops in 7 years,,, BEYONCE BEHIVE FEELS ITS PERFECTLY OKAY FOR BEYONCE AND HER BOOTY PADS TO ACHIEVE BUT IS ALWAYS PISSY WHEN OTHERS ACHIEVE.

    • SLAY HER January 21, 2013

      yeah and beythief writes her iwn songs etc just like the way she wrote “The star banggled banner ” and “silent night”.

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        shut the hell up

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        i’ll take this back srry <3

    • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

      I don’t see Rihanna being given the chance to perform for the President.. Oh yes that would be because it would require a ‘PERFORMANCE’ which is something she is yet to learn to do.

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        LOL

      • SIP YOUR PEPSI AND WATCH YOUR B**** FLOP IN 2013!!! WHILE RIHANNA SLAYS!!! January 21, 2013

        BUT YET SHE IS SLAYING YOUR FAVE ALL OVER THE WORLD!!

      • BEYNAJ January 22, 2013

        There’s a difference between slaying and brain washing… #delusional

    • Anonymous January 21, 2013

      THIS IS ABOUT ALICIA NOT BEYONCE OR RIHANNA STFU & STAY ON TOP

      • Anonymous January 21, 2013

        TOPIC****

      • hey baby doll January 22, 2013

        LOL on top sorry im a bottom boo

      • Anonymous January 22, 2013

        GROW UP CHILD

      • hey baby doll January 22, 2013

        kiss my ass b****

      • truth(slayer of icki funky ass stans B****!!) January 22, 2013

        Dead @heybabydoll

  2. B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

    GLAD SHE DIDN’T SOUND LIKE S*** THIS TIME LORD BEYSUS KNOWS HER RECENT PERFORMANCES HAVE VOCALLY BEEN STRAIGHT S***

    • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

      Haha I totally agree… My comment above was just a 1st comment to get that Navy mad! Beysus SLAYED today above everybody

      • B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

        Hahaha good Im so f****** sick of the navy those rihtarded h*** can kick rocks

      • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

        I’m with you on that one. Navy F****** SUCKS!

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        beyhoe sounded like s*** today r**** sounds better now get mad s*** hive 🙂

      • B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

        Honey R**** doesn’t sound better than no one she a flop b**** that sucks d*** for dallors that h** can die like her grandmother,

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        i know she really do sounds like s*** beyonce was good today friends <3

      • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

        I’m sorry can you say that again!? A Rihanna Stan Is Confirming that she is actually s***?

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        Oh no no no im not a navy i hate them too aka (s*** navy)

      • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

        I’m glad you have sense

      • SIP YOUR PEPSI AND WATCH YOUR B**** FLOP IN 2013!!! WHILE RIHANNA SLAYS!!! January 21, 2013

        F***!!! UGLY FAT F***!!! 🙂

      • Anonymous January 22, 2013

        YOU GUYS ARE SO DISRESPECTFUL THIS IS ABOUT ALICIA NOT RIHANNA OR BEYONCE WTF IS YALL PROBLEM?

        @SIPSPESPI YOUR PATHETIC CALLING PEOPLE F*** YOU NEED TO BE SLAPPED

        @B-E-Y-S-U-S PLEASE GET HELP YOU LOSE SOUL ITS NOT HEALTHY WHAT YOUR DOING YOU HAVE A DEMON INSIDE YOU..YOU NEED AN EXORCISM ASAP

        @ BEYNAJ YOU BROKE PATHETIC LOSER GET A JOB AND STOP HATING ON FEMALES YOUR MOTHER DID A HORRIBLE JOB RAISING YOU

      • Lax January 22, 2013

        ALICIA AND JENNIFER SOCKED IT TO BEYONCE
        IN DC…

      • truth(slayer of icki funky ass stans B****!!) January 22, 2013

        Dead @anonymous and lax

    • BEYNAJ January 21, 2013

      Time you started cleaning your ears and choked on that tea you keep sippin’.

      • Anonymous January 22, 2013

        You really deserve to get your teeth bashed in I have no respect for you

  3. ƸӜƷ MC ƸӜƷ January 21, 2013

    She did well and looked beautiful, more importantly, she was on key…..for the most part.

  4. honestly January 21, 2013

    She needs to take a 2 week break for the Superbowl. When Alicia is good she is damn good but when she’s bad it’s horrible and hard to listen to. She should take a break and relax her voice for the national anthem.

    • jason January 21, 2013

      ITS GONNA BE PRE RECORDED LIKE THE ALL ARE

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        the s*** was not pre nothing you could tell

      • Lax January 22, 2013

        Alicia might need to relax her vocals while BEYONCE
        Need to take a extended break for the spot light and let folks miss her ass, duuuuh!

      • RICHANDBLACK11 January 22, 2013

        she can’t do that when you are as big as Beyonce that’s impossible to stay out of the spotlight. Lax are you drunk.

    • B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

      i agree alicia needs to not sing until Feb 3rd I don’t want her ruining BEYSUS SUPERBOWL

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        shut the f*** up b**** beyhoe could barley sing

      • Lax January 22, 2013

        Not only did Alicia and Jennifer Hudson Up Stage Beyonce’s Day time Act, they also TRUMPED Beyonce who clearly was in a Festive mood with her Designer Night Time Black Gown on WISHING she and Her Camel was invited to the night time Festivities,,,But not to worry Bey Hive JENNIFER HUDSON PERFORMED AT TWO 2 PARTIES AND THEN THERE WAS ALICIA AND HER PIANO, BOO, BOO STAY PISSED ALICIA AND JENNIFER, KATY AND ALL THE OTHERS MADE AS MUCH IF NOT MORE HISTORY AS BEYONCE’S ASS LOOK LIKE IT’S BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD FOR BEYONCE’S ASS WHO WANTS TO ALWAYS HOGGGGG THE SHOW,,,,IT DIDN’T HAPPEN IN DC NO. NO , NO.

    • JOHNVIDAL January 22, 2013

      Not happening! Alicia is coming to Spain this week and I suppose other European countries. The girl doesn´t stop. No wonder her voice suffers

  5. solange noals January 21, 2013

    she was alright lol. i still don’t know how she’s going to pull off the national anthem without straining on the high notes

  6. tits mcgee January 21, 2013

    Very good showing from Alicia. #thatisall

  7. MISHKA January 21, 2013

    *Black* People are too harsh on Alicia. Give her a break, she did great and looked gorgeous.

  8. B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

    BEY
    IS
    MY
    GOD
    ID
    BATHE IN BLOOD FOR MY GOD!!!!!

    • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

      using rihanna’s ? LOL

      • B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

        B**** WTF YOU TALKING BOUT

      • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

        you said BEY
        IS
        MY
        GOD
        ID
        BATHE IN BLOOD FOR MY GOD. than i said using rihanna’s blood ? LOL and your the b**** you can’t even read go back to school c***

      • B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

        No I’d bathe in my own blood…I don’t do goat blood sorry

    • Anonymous January 21, 2013

      Seek help you demon

  9. Masterpiece (Beyonce’s Weave) January 21, 2013

    Just checked the iTunes charts and this performance has done exactly what I thought it would do for Beyonce (which is absolutely NOTHING). Kelly Clarkson has soared on iTunes, obtaining the #16 spot on the singles chart and the #33 spot on the album chart. Beyonce on the other hand is nowhere to be seen.

    LOL, not even the inauguration performance could help her career, BRING ON THE SB.

    • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

      LOL Death

    • SIP YOUR PEPSI AND WATCH YOUR B**** FLOP IN 2013!!! WHILE RIHANNA SLAYS!!! January 22, 2013

      Lol!!

    • Anonymous January 22, 2013

      GROW UP PLEASE

      THIS IS ABOUT ALICIA

    • Stash January 22, 2013

      Beyonce doesn’t have anything out and being promoted, you airhead. LOL

    • Nikita January 22, 2013

      But Kelly Clarkson has stuff out, Beyonce doesnt so your point holds no relevance.

  10. B-E-Y-S-U-S is our GOD January 21, 2013

    CAN THE R**** STANS SIT TF DOWN

    • hey baby doll January 21, 2013

      you better not be talking about me h** even tho im no fan b****

      • Lax January 22, 2013

        BEYONCE’S ASS WANTED TO BE SINGING IN THAT
        SLOT THAT JENNIFER HUDSON WAS SINGING IN AND THEY SAID NO, NO, NO GIVE BEYONCE THE STRIPPER THE DAY SLOT AND WE WILL LET JENNIFER SOULFUL VOCALS SERNADE US FOR THE NIGHT SESSIONS, DUUUUUH!!!

    • SIP YOUR PEPSI AND WATCH YOUR B**** FLOP IN 2013!!! WHILE RIHANNA SLAYS!!! January 22, 2013

      Can the a*** hives shut the f*** up?!

  11. Anonymous January 21, 2013

    Why does everything always have to be about Beyonce & Rihanna yall act like those are the only two musicians around take that s*** elsewhere

    • SIP YOUR PEPSI AND WATCH YOUR B**** FLOP IN 2013!!! WHILE RIHANNA SLAYS!!! January 22, 2013

      Your right im sorry i love alicia but i think she is very boring

      • Anonymous January 22, 2013

        i like Rihanna & I think she sounds like a dying cat while performing live

  12. Masterpiece (Beyonce’s Weave) January 21, 2013

    It was so funny seeing THIEFyonce get all cocky when holding the mic, only to deliver a mediocre performance and get slayed by Kelly Clarkson. It was even funnier, after trending worldwide, to see her not reflect this hype on the iTunes charts lmao.

    After the flea hive got all cocky about how Beyonce is slaying, I cannot seem to see this supposed “slayage” reflect on the iTunes and yet Kelly Clarkson, who according to the s*** hive did not deliver as good a performance as their demi-god, has all but soared on the iTunes charts.

    Still cocky about the Super Bowl???

    • Anonymous January 21, 2013

      Read a book sweetie this is about Alicia

    • Stash January 22, 2013

      Yep. And I’m still feeling cocky over how Nivea dropped Rihanna as their spokeswoman and publicly condemned her as trash in parting. lol

    • Nikita January 22, 2013

      And shes still being talked about more than the actual inauguration itself! So deal!

  13. Anonymous January 21, 2013

    @BEYNAJ get a life b**** stop worrying about bey & rih worry about getting a job you ignorant welfare receiving piece of s***

    • SIP YOUR PEPSI AND WATCH YOUR B**** FLOP IN 2013!!! WHILE RIHANNA SLAYS!!! January 22, 2013

      Death

  14. OMG Just Google Kelsnetwork and see what happens… January 22, 2013

    One of her best performances so far!!!!

  15. Anonymous January 22, 2013

    YOU GUYS ARE SO DISRESPECTFUL THIS IS ABOUT ALICIA NOT RIHANNA OR BEYONCE WTF IS YALL PROBLEM?

    @SIPSPESPI YOUR PATHETIC CALLING PEOPLE F*** YOU NEED TO BE SLAPPED

    @B-E-Y-S-U-S PLEASE GET HELP YOU LOSE SOUL ITS NOT HEALTHY WHAT YOUR DOING YOU HAVE A DEMON INSIDE YOU..YOU NEED AN EXORCISM ASAP

    @ BEYNAJ YOU BROKE PATHETIC LOSER GET A JOB AND STOP HATING ON FEMALES YOUR MOTHER DID A HORRIBLE JOB RAISING YOU

    @MASTERPIECE YOU HAVE ISSUES HONEY YOU NEED HELP LEARN TO SHOW RESPECT WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU I KNOW YOU WERE RAISED BETTER STOP DISAPPOINTING YOUR PARENTS

    @HEYBABYDOLL YOUR ANNOYING & MAKE NO SENSE STAY IN SCHOOL PLEASE

  16. nickalus Randle January 22, 2013

    I LOVED IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Anonymous January 22, 2013

      Me to amazing song

  17. Anonymous January 22, 2013

    ALICIA IS A REAL ARTIST UNLIKE THE OTHER TWO LADIES PEOPLE LOVE BRING UP ALICIA THAT WAS A AMAZING PERFORMANCE GIRL ON FIRE IS ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS IVE HEARD IN AWHILE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU ON TOUR LOVE YA

  18. aishaaguilerakeys January 22, 2013

    Man, I had a big ass smile on my face the whole time! So proud of my girl!

  19. aishaaguilerakeys January 22, 2013

    The hell w/ all these Beyhive and Navy members bringing up their faves on an Alicia post. Smh.

  20. amina January 22, 2013

    she did amazing

    she sound good

    for the superbowl i’m not sure i know she can do very good but with het we never know.

    wait and see.

  21. aynon January 22, 2013

    in light of her recent performances, this was great

  22. JOHNVIDAL January 22, 2013

    Alicia is a real ARTIST! Enough said
    She did good. And if her voice suffers is due to her non stop promotinal performances. This week she is coming to Spain to perform and I suppose she´ll probably do the same in other European countries. All this before the Superbowl. Girl works hard.

  23. Um ok January 22, 2013

    Why wasn’t Beyonce holding a can of Pepsi while singing the National Anthem???

  24. Gigi January 22, 2013

    I like her voice, most of the time, and her songs. I can’t stand her attitude though. She comes off like and arrogant b****.

  25. cocobutta January 22, 2013

    WELL DONE!! She did talk too much but SUNG WELLLLLLL

  26. oh January 22, 2013

    Beyoncé has been widely praised for her beautiful rendition of the national anthem at Monday’s presidential inauguration.

    But even after seeing her triumphantly pull her earpiece out as she belted out the words, buzz is now bubbling up that the superstar wasn’t singing it live.

    TheTimes of London is reporting that a spokeswoman for the Marine Corps Band says it is standard procedure to record a backing track and that Beyoncé decided soon before stepping to the microphone to use it.

    UPDATE, 5:28 p.m. ET: The U.S. Marine Corps is backing off earlier statements that Beyoncé lip-synced the national anthem, the Associated Press reports.

    According to a statement, the band did not play live, however, Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Gregory Wolf tells AP no one in the band is in a position to know whether Beyonce’s vocal performance was live or pre-recorded.

    UPDATE, 1 p.m. ET: Master Sgt. Kristin DuBois, spokeswoman for the President’s Own United States Marine Band, confirms to USA TODAY’s Maria Puente that Beyoncé was lip-syncing.

    It’s standard operating procedure for musicians to pre-record crucial music such as Hail to the Chief and The Star-Spangled Banner. “You can’t have a presidential inauguration and not have Hail to the Chief and Star-Spangled Banner,” she says.

    And it’s not unprecedented to use the pre-recorded track, as Yo-Yo Ma did last time, classical instruments being delicate in cold weather. But the band performed live for the entire ceremony, except for Beyoncé.

    DuBois says they were “surprised” to be given instructions during the ceremonies that they were to stand and pretend to play their instruments during the national anthem, and they “don’t know” why that decision was made. Or even who made it. Probably Beyoncé. “It’s not what we would have chosen, but we were instructed to do it so we did.”‘

    As for Beyoncé, “we all know she has the pipes,” she said. “It wasn’t because she can’t sing it or because the band can’t play it, because we can. … We performed live, as we have for every inauguration since 1801.”

    She said that every four years somebody wants to write a story about “was it live or was it Memorex?”

    She also says Kelly Clarkson sang live, and that the band’s staff arranger wrote the special arrangement of My Country, ‘Tis of Thee that she used.

    If anyone can handle brutal playing conditions, the band can, she says. “This group of people are such pros, they can make it work no matter what. They are so accustomed to playing under any condition.”

    Washingtonian.com posed the question, too: “Did Beyoncé Lip-Sync the Star-Spangled Banner?”

    Washingtonian’s Sophie Gilbert writes, “To press seated just below the podium, in front of the ‘President’s Own’ Marine Corps Band, it was evident that the band wasn’t actually playing during the song — even though band director Colonel Michael J. Colburn was conducting energetically and the band members mimicked blowing into their instruments.”

    And offering more possible evidence, Gilbert notes that “the day before the ceremony, Beyoncé posted pictures to her Instagram account that appeared to show her in a recording studio. In one, she holds a copy of the sheet music to The Star Spangled Banner in front of a microphone attached to a recording device, and in another she sits in front of recording equipment while members of the Marine Corps Band stand clutching sheet music behind her.”

    Indeed, Beyoncé did share those photos on her website.

  27. fatu sankoh January 22, 2013

    I will never belive any of it bey was getting so much prace and shine they have to come up with something to tanish her she out shine all their favorite good luck bey I will never arebadon you

  28. antertain January 23, 2013

    Nearly forgot this is an Alicia Keys post, after going through the comments lol.

    Bey thing is not life threatening life and music goes on.
    Now she’s the hot topic and you played yourselves right into it.
    ON TO THE NEXT!!

    Good job Alicia. Sounded really nice imo

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