Alicia Keys Reacts To New Music Videos (Rod Wave, Griselda, Ama Lou) | The Cosign

What's new? This is Alicia, and I'm about to watch some new

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videos

and see which artist gets my endorsement. When I was just starting out and a new artist, I remember having to show people who I am and that I wasn't going to walk away from that girl, that that was me. That's what I like. I like when I see a certain individuality or personality and you can automatically say, like, "Man, that person is after her thing." Know? So it's fire. Lots of great things are happening. Okay, so the juice box is everything. She has a dope voice.

She has a New York vibe to me. Juice box, North Face, not super skinny jeans, kind of boyish, boyish, my vibe. You thought she was going to rhyme, but then she started singing. She has attitude, but she's cute. She really like me. Even if it's a soft melody, you can tell when someone can sing, so I can hear that she has a voice too, so I loved that. I love simplicity. I like the feeling of, whatever, I woke up like this, this is my vibe, you know? Nobody really wants to see someone trying too hard, I don't think so.

That was a while ago. So it's good. I like it a lot. This person pays attention to many details. This is crazy. Did you get the egg with the face and then the face became the egg? The level of detail is insane. He definitely created this video. Yeah I heard this on TikTok but never heard the full song just heard the whistle. TikTok is fast, so you literally only have time to listen to the... And that's it. Something about a hiss in a song always works. Mark my words, any song that has a hiss works. You can tell that he has a crazy personality.

It feels like he makes people laugh all day. Hmm, I like this. It feels like what he's feeling, what he's singing. It feels like and it just put... I felt like he wants us to be in his world, he wants to take us to a place that's familiar to him and it feels like wherever he filmed, this is a place that means something to him. That's what he feels. The melodies are fire. It seemed that he had been influenced by the church. You know, for me, growing up in Harlem, growing up in Hell's Kitchen, it was always this mix of hard and poignant.

The toughness that came from the hip-hop that he loved, had that feeling too. Similar to I feel like what Rod is experiencing, it's hard but it also feels very moving, it feels like something gets inside you that you can feel. He feels like he's talking about his experience and that the soul is there and he feels like he really... He means what he says. I love someone who means what he says. For me, that's the best of

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. Well. Skull on. Scarves on. Chains off. Sweatshirts. The vibe is also great, because it's hard, but she has joy with it.

I think the thing that caught my eye right away is all the cars. I love seeing women in cars because that's something that drives me crazy. I'm like, why does it only have to be the guys in the new cars? That bothers me a bit, so he loved her in flashbacks. You could say they are fire. The flow is cool. She has again, like, a rhyming style, fluency but a sweet voice. Her energy is brilliant. Like we're definitely leaving behind these old standards of how a woman is supposed to look. We look for all kinds of shapes, we have all kinds of style.

You can see that she likes sweatshirts, baggy jeans, and skulls. And then her friends have scarves. All the different styles are just all the different styles. I love seeing different styles of people together, you know? Hmm, the Sonic is sick. Rae might as well jump on this. I mean, this is exactly... Ghost might as well be in on this. Oh, and then the colors went crazy! Sick visuals. I see that Hype did this. It almost mixes the concept with the CGI, and real life in black and white, and then your favorite fucking video, where the girls have to be in their panties and shit, all that.

But you have it all! Buffalo produces a product, it's crazy. You don't expect it, but it's enough people coming from Buffalo. It's a super throwback to the '90s for sure, and I'm with it. Like, it's going to go round and round and round forever and ever. Because like I said, great things are timeless. First of all, she is beautiful. Second, she's on a beach with a microphone, and like a folding table, and her laptop that she just finished doing this beat on. I love that it is very imperfect. I think that's a really beautiful thing.

For example, the headphone cords are super tangled up and not sitting perfectly on the thing. Super expensive microphone that she's singing into, by the way. So she's not lazy on sound. I love her just sitting on the beach like this. So good. I think we finally got to a place where we think about this, like really thinking about what does it mean to care about yourself? What does it mean to take time for yourself and not feel guilty about it, and not feel like you're not supposed to do it? So I love that. And for that to be something that people can sing and listen to, it's important.

I loved seeing these. I loved the diversity of the art, all the different styles, all the different energies. Mistress Lou, what I got from her is like a game. I was really excited to hear her sing. LoveLeo definitely, super hysterical, made me like I already wanted to laugh. Actually, I already wanted to meet him. She seems like the most amazing person to hang out with. Rod Wave, I like him a lot. Again, soulful style, it felt like real life. It's about what's really going on around you. Kaash Paige was also fire. She painted a world for you, in Texas.

As if you could feel the energy from her. It was cool. It was hard. Griselda is ridiculous. The video is outrageous. Savannah Cristina, I love ease. I love naturalness, and I think she is bold. I like it. So, I guess the artist that gets my endorsement today, because that's how I feel right now, I'm going to go for Rod Wave. He is fire. I loved the real life energy I got from him. I'm interested in studying even more of his lyrics. I am interested in knowing more about his history. I felt good. But that was really hard.

That was very difficult. For me, I think what caught my attention, is just the individuality. It feels like each person is occupying his own lane, and you can feel, I felt, like a part of them in each of these images. Can I get a finalist? Alright, so my finalist would be Ama Lou. Alright? Rod Wave has my co-sign today, but I guess they both do. Rod Wave and Ama Lou get my joint signature.