It was supposed to be one of the year’s greatest releases- following the epic launch of Lady GaGa‘s ‘Telephone’ outing with Beyonce.
However, despite recording the single and travelling to Brazil to shoot its big budget video, nothing came of Alicia Keys’ duet with the ‘End Of Time‘ singer, despite the frenzy whipped up by Keys in support of her 2010 LP ‘The Element Of Freedom‘.
Now, one year after being quizzed by That Grape Juice on the video’s absence, and two years after it was due for release, Alicia has finally revealed why fans will not be seeing the Melina piece.
Her statement below…
Speaking to Essence Magazine, she confessed:
“Ohhh man! Y’all aren’t going to leave me alone about that! Sometimes with creative things [it] all comes together and it’s (makes perfection kissing noise) and sometimes things almost come together and it’s better to just leave it. So we love that song.
We had a ball shooting the video. It just so happens that the whole thing, for some reason or another, didn’t quite come together so we just decided to leave it. And that’s what happened.”
Though we’re sure this still won’t satisfy many inquiring minds, it’s nice to finally have an official answer.
Of course, we’d be lying if we said the answer made any sense, considering the expense of both hiring Melina, the set, extras and any other costs a Beyonce/Alicia video would incur and more importantly…why RCA would allow Keys to scrap the video when it was bound to push sales of the ‘Element’.
Maybe, with Beyonce likely to ‘return’ in 2013 and Alicia readying the launch of her new album, their respective labels may push for the video’s launch to help both their causes.
If not, here’s to a fresh collabo between the ladies and a video that does see the light of day.
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Yeah right ……,
U know BEE was takin ovah that video!! THATS WHYYY
I mean its all eyes on bee right !! When she does duo vids ( gaga , shakira)
You put yaself in that damm video ms Keys
Just release the DAMMMM thing
Or just show me the bee material !!!!!
Wasn’t going 2 look at your ass Anywayz
Ughh… I CANT
You’re joking right? Your fave is an illuminati puppet and Alicia wasn’t having it and that’s why we won’t see the damn video.
Before you call me a crazy conspiracy theorist ask yourself this, why did Beyonce and Lady Gaga put their six over their eye in Telephone. You can’t say it’s just part of the choreography because it was put in their on purpose. Melina is clearly part of it which is why she directs all of Rihanna and Beyonces videos and the same goes for a lot of other artists out there.
Alicia isn’t down with that nonsense.
LMAO GEERLL STAAHP
oh gawdd here we go again smh
ALICIA HAS HAD MANY ILLUMINATI-INSPIRED CLIPS IN HER VIDS AND PHOTO’S TOO
Then why did she work with jay-z?
Melina and Beyonce probably wanted to fill the video with Illuminati symbols and Alicia wasn’t playing that.
The Illuminati is so awesome tho!
Maybe Alicia or Beyonce just weren’t satisfied with the finished product. If She wasn’t happy with how it looked, it makes sense that she wouldn’t want to release it.
Because it wasn’t goin to be EPIC?
it makes perfect sense .she thought that the video did not live up too the hype of the song so she didn’t bother
Most likely BeyFlop wanted to claim she wrote the screenplay for the song an Pitchy Keys was not having it. Anyway if it had to be released today, it would flop, it would probably only chart on the Billboard R&B Charts.
I love Bey & Alicia but this made me LOL
looool the truth
Or maybe the song was wack and it flopped hard & thus releasing its big budget would only be waste of time coz the song sucked….here’s to them never stepping in the studio together,EVER
GUSH!! so mad right now, just give the fans the god damn video!!!!
@ AKEYSGIRLONFIRE beyonce alicia swizz beats jay-z melina and the rest they all are in that s*** so dont judge only on beyonce and melina
Maybe cuz the song was a hot ass mess on a sunday morning in my Syleena Johnson voice!
I remember the epicness of Telephone, you the know the epicness of being #2 to Rihanna’s #1 Rude Boy. Isn’t funny how the two “biggest” names in music couldn’t even take that top spot from Rihanna.
Yaaaassssssssss B**** U BETTA LET EM KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahaaaa LOOOOOOOOOOOOL 😀
ugh #1s means nothing. [Soulja boy topping the charts can attest to that] When Rihanna has as many grammys as Beyonce or Alicia to back her name. than you can boast
and I must say 4 grammys outta 6 albums is quite sad
MANNN…PLZZZ…STOP WITH THAT #WHOISSHIT THING! WHO CARES????
ANY WAY, THE SONG SUCKS!
That’s what I said…#WHOISIT has been up there for sooo long, if there were any excitement of finding out who SHE is, IT’S GONE!!! Nobody cares who she is.
THE SONG AND THE VIDEO ITSELF WOULD BE A FLOP! IT SUCKS!
@tricorius YES, STOP WHITH THAT #WHOISSHIT
@sam STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
First illumanti don’t exist no more. It wasn’t about the devil it was about Freemasons and whatnot. Do your own research we actually had to study it for social studies in 9th. Next just because a video isn’t released don’t mean it’s filled with illumanti. They both obviously didn’t like it. N neither r puppets espically b just look at her behind the scences she’s on people n her job she’s very involved. Lights somebody getting fired hey hey! I mean she re did me myself and I and that wasn’t filled with so called illumanti sometimes artists don’t like the final product. Period!
Oh my goshhhhh thank you. I thought i was the only one!!! Everybody always screamin illuminati but dont even know what the hell it is. If the illuminati DID still exist they wouldnt associate with EVERY DAMN mainstream celebrity , THEY WERE A SECRET SOCIETY.. Hello idiots. Stop repeatin everything you hear and read something. Its annoying
GWEN STEFANI AND PINK DOING A COLLABORATION >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BEYONCE AND
SHAKIRA>>>>>>>>>>>>BEYONCE AND ALICIA KEYS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BEYONCE AND LADY GA GA
BEYONCE JUST DOESNT DO WELL WITH OTHER FEMALE ARTIST…
NO1 DONT CARE BOUT NO PINK AND GWEN STEFANI U WISH
BEAUTIFUL LIAR >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> TELEPHONE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PIIALS>>>>>>>>>>>>>GWEN AND PINKS DRIED UP OVARIES
Let’s be honest, that song and video sucked, Beyonce is a fame w**** so she was most likely all over the video seeing that it was directed by Melina, with minimal A.K coverage, I remember when they had the poster beef where beyonce’s image was huge on the poster and Alicia’s was smaller and she wasn’t having it LOL.
I guess it makes senses not to release something if the finish product was to your dismay but beyonce outfits was cuter though lol
The song aint good. Simples
Delícia!
I would be lying if I said that this doesn’t p*** me off. I find it extremely selfish and unprofessional to have people dedicate their time towards your s*** and out of the blue you decide to say f*** u and ur time to these people because of vanity.
But they were payed for that anyway!
That song sucked and had no meaning.
b**** just be blunt & tell the truth most likely the video was wack & the S*** was guna FLOP! You got to wack b****** on one track smh that just screams no!!!
That song sucked. It’s good that they scrapped it.
The song was cool but people didnt expect them to do a uptempo song together. and with the Video if you saw clips from behind the scene Alicia cant dance and it looked Awkward so in the editing process of the video by the end you would end up either with a bunch of shots that didnt fit together or a bunch of beyonce shots to add excitement. At the end of the day to promote that song it needed a hot heavily choreographed video and those two artist (together) didnt work. They needed a Ballad or a smooth mid tempo track to match both personalities.
The song doesn’t represent both of their styles. The song is a BEYONCE song. Alicia should have just given the song to Beyonce and let her release it. It fits the “Beyonce’s brand” better.
In other words Bey over shadowed her on her own song and video. So when she saw the finished product she squashed it and moved on. lolol..m
TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LMFAO
You’re the only one that got it right! I was thinking the same exact thing. Plus, in my opinion, the song was just horrible. I’m glad that they left it alone.
Alicia might as well just release the video now, but she probably won’t because she didn’t look that hot in the video, she looked frail, but I still love her.
I loved the fresh sound of the song, and Alicia should have just given it to Beyonce because it had hit potential and it would be a different sound for Bey.
Beyonce always slay in duets with female artist. Love A Woman>PIIALS>Telephone>BL>VP>
I wonder if the Beyonce Cult followers realize that their attitude and actions cause many, many people to dislike her. You Beyonce stans are a bunch of delusional bots that always feel the need to try and discredit other artist to make her look good. Alicia Keys is a MUSICIAN she WRITES her own sh*t, she COMPOSES her own Sh*t, she PRODUCES her own sh*t, she has absolutely no reason to be concerned about being outshined by Beyonce. She is an All around musician and people are lined up from europe to australia wanting to work with her, whenever young artist or seasnoned artist are interviewed and asked who they want to work with most, the answer is 95% of the time Alicia Keys and that is fact, all you have to do is search the net. The fact that Beyonce stans feel the need to down play other artist to build her up says a lot, at the end of the day the music that will last will be the music with substance and meaning, not necessarily th music that is made for a** shaking, and take that how you will. What a sad bunch.
#Blah,Blah,Blah and these other stans downplay beyonce to make their favs look good as well.
LOL @ that lame excuse. B**** please! She wasted Bee’s day’s off from her successful world tour to do the video then you don’t release it. It’s as clear as day, that Alicia and her people couldn’t deal with the fact, that Bee slayed and upstaged Alicia in that video, and they were not having it. Beyonce made Alicia look like a damn extra in her own video.
stope right there hatter bey talente over shado your favorite keys is not that good
It was supposed to be one of the year’s greatest releases- following the epic launch of Lady GaGa‘s ‘Telephone’ outing with Beyonce.
LMAO!….that was a joke right, Gaga and Beyonce just don’t fits together. Alicia and Beyonce would have been a great duet probably only to the black community haha.
change your name to racist blonde. That fits better you bitter ass f**.
ehhhh…as much as I love the two of them I must say that “Put It In A Love Song” fell below both their standards. It was cheesy and seemed so out of place on Alicia Keys’ album at the time. The pictures from the video set looked amazing but sometimes beauty and a good video concept still don’t equivelate to a GOOD SONG. Not to mention, that performance posted above is wack as hell. Alicia is not good at performing uptempo songs and Beyonce seemed out of her element because it wasn’t her own song and she couldn’t vibe out to it like she would do to one of her own songs.
It’s not that difficult, it was just a video. A video doesn’t guarantee higher sales either Sam. Sam has been acting of with alot of what he has been saying. Perhaps they didn’t like the finished product. But they should have just released it.
I STILL WANT TO SEE THIS WHOLE PERFORMANCE! I HOPE THESE 2 MAKE ANOTHER SONG TOGETHER BUT SOMETHING MORE LIKE A STRONG R&B BALLAD THIS SONG WAS DESCENT BUT WOULDNT HAVE BEEN A REAL HIT , LIKED IT THO! THEY SHOULD DO A DUET WIT JUST THE 2 OF THEM OR EVEN ADD ANOTHER R&B CHICK OR 2 TO BRING R&B BACK AND SHOW WHAT A (REAL) VOICE REALLY IS NOT JUST SOMETHING THATS AUTO TUNED AND POPPED RITE OUT OF THE MICROWAVE AND THROW TO THE PUBLIC LIKE A (GIMMICK) #LEGGO
Beyonce probably outshined keys in the video and there was not a lot of usable keys out shining beyonce footage…no hate just the truth…
Alicia looked great in the video and I’ve got a feeling if Beyonce had wanted to release the video it would have been released. So Alicia gets all the blame. I say it was agreed on by both for whatever reason.
Yea um Beyonce just has better stage presence. I love Alicia Keys but maybe Beyonce overshadowed her.