{"id":974330,"date":"2020-01-09T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=935470"},"modified":"2020-01-09T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:54:41","slug":"alicia-keys-stands-up-for-the-underdog-in-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/alicia-keys-stands-up-for-the-underdog-in-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Keys Stands Up for the \u2018Underdog\u2019 in New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alicia Keys<\/a> released a new single on Thursday called \u201cUnderdog,\u201d co-penned with Ed Sheeran<\/a> and co-produced with Johnny McDaid (Ed Sheeran, Pink).<\/p>\n

The accompanying visual shows Keys and her posse encouraging underdogs to \u201crise up.\u201d It focuses on a man selling CDs on the side of the road and a girl in a hijab going to prom with her friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people may think of the word underdog as a negative word, but I see it as a powerful word representing people who may be underestimated and yet still rise to the challenge and exceed expectations,\u201d Keys said in a statement. \u201cI love this song so much because it\u2019s about real life and real people and our experiences. We\u2019ve all been in a place in our lives where we\u2019ve had to defy the odds. It\u2019s never easy. One of my favorite lyrics in the song is, \u2018They say I would never make it but I was built to break the mold.\u2019 I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a person on the planet that hasn\u2019t felt that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderdog\u201d will be available on Keys\u2019 upcoming seventh studio album ALICIA<\/em>, set for an early 2020 release. Keys previously shared the songs \u201cTime Machine\u201d<\/a> and the Miguel duet \u201cShow Me Love.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Keys is also set to host the Grammy Awards for the second year in a row on January 26th. Her book, More Myself,<\/em> will be released March 31st.<\/p>\n

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Alicia Keys released a new single on Thursday called \u201cUnderdog,\u201d co-penned with Ed Sheeran and co-produced with Johnny McDaid (Ed Sheeran, Pink). The accompanying visual shows Keys and her posse encouraging underdogs to \u201crise up.\u201d It focuses on a man selling CDs on the side of the road and a girl in a hijab going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:32:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}