IF I AIN'T GOT YOU
ALICIA KEYS
SONGWRITER: ALICIA KEYS
HOW: LIVE FROM ITUNES FESTIVAL, LONDON, 2012
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS
LABEL: J RECORDS
GENRE: R & B
YEAR: 2004
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981),
known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter. A
classically-trained pianist, Keys began composing songs by age 12 and was
signed at 15 years old by Columbia
Records. After disputes with the label, she signed
with Arista Records,
and later released her debut album, Songs
in A Minor, with J Records in 2001. The album was critically and commercially successful,
producing her first Billboard
Hot 100 number-one single "Fallin'" and selling over 16
million copies worldwide. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002. Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), was
also a critical and commercial success, spawning successful singles "You
Don't Know My Name", "If
I Ain't Got You", and "Diary", and selling eight million
copies worldwide. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards. Her duet "My Boo" with Usher became her second number-one single in 2004. Keys released her first
live album, Unplugged (2005), and became the
first woman to have an MTV
Unplugged album debut at number one.
Her third album, As I Am (2007), produced the Hot 100 number-one single "No One", selling 7 million copies
worldwide and earning an additional three Grammy Awards. In 2007, Keys made her
film debut in the action-thriller film Smokin'
Aces. She, along with Jack White,
recorded "Another
Way to Die" (the title song to the
22nd official James Bond film, Quantum of Solace).
Her fourth album, The
Element of Freedom (2009), became her first
chart-topping album in the UK, and sold 4 million copies worldwide. In 2009,
Keys also collaborated with Jay Z on "Empire
State of Mind", which became her fourth
number-one single and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
Girl
on Fire (2012) was her fifth Billboard 200 topping album, spawning the successful title
track, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. In
2013, VH1 Storytellers was released as
her second live album. Her sixth studio album, Here (2016), became her seventh US R&B/Hip-Hop chart-topping album. Her seventh studio album, Alicia,
was released on September 18, 2020.
Keys has received numerous accolades in her career, including 15 competitive Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards,
12 ASCAP Awards, and an
award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Music Publishers Association.
She has sold over 50 million albums and 40 million singles worldwide and was
named by Billboard the top R&B artist of the 2000s decade. She placed tenth on their list of Top 50
R&B/Hip-Hop
Artists of the Past 25 Years. VH1 included her on their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 100
Greatest Women in Music lists, while Time has named her in their 100 list of
most influential people in 2005 and
2017. Keys is also acclaimed for her humanitarian work, philanthropy and
activism; she co-founded and serves as the Global Ambassador of the nonprofit HIV/AIDS-fighting
organization Keep
a Child Alive.
"If I Ain't Got You" is a song by
American singer-songwriter Alicia
Keys from her second studio album The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003).
Inspired by the 2001 death of singer Aaliyah, the
terrorist September
11 attacks, and other events in the world
and in Keys' life, the song is about "how material things don't feed the
soul." The single cover depicts Keys similarly to the subject of Man Ray's 1924
painting Le Violon d'Ingres.
Released in February 2004 as the album's
second single,
"If I Ain't Got You" peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and became Keys' second consecutive R&B chart-topper, remaining
atop of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for six
weeks. The song received two nominations at the 2005
Grammy Awards, for Song of the Year and Best Female R&B Vocal
Performance, winning the latter.
A remix featuring Usher,
a Kanye West Radio Mix, and a Spanish-language version featuring Arturo
Sandoval appear on the bonus CD of select
international pressings of The Diary of Alicia Keys.
Some people live for
the fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power, yeah
Some people live just to play the game
Some people think
that the physical things
Define what's within
And I've been there before, but that life's a bore
So full of the superficial
Some people want it
all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, yeah
Some people search
for a fountain
That promises forever young
Some people need three dozen roses
And that's the only way to prove you love them
Hand me the world on
a silver platter
And what good would it be?
And no one to share
With no one who truly be cares for me
Some people want it
all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, you, you
Some people want it
all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, yeah
If I ain't got you with me, baby
So nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing
If I ain't got you with me, baby.
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