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Alicia (stylized in all caps) is the upcoming seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Alicia Keys. It is scheduled to be released through RCA Records on September 18, 2020. It serves as the follow-up to 2016's Here. The album generated four singles: "Show Me Love", "Underdog", "So Done" and "Love Looks Better", as well as three promotional singles: "Time Machine", "Good Job" and "Perfect Way to Die". The album was originally scheduled to release on March 20, 2020, then May 15, before being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The album was also originally scheduled to be supported by Keys' Alicia: The World Tour which was set to commence in June 2020, but was also postponed.

First aired ten days prior to the release of Girl on Fire, Alicia Keys' VH1 Storytellers program featured six songs. While this set expands the set to 11 songs, it does not present the full performance. Heavy editing was involved; certain portions of Keys' dialogue re hacked up, crowd noise is unnaturally lowered and raised in volume, and there is little evident effort to make the songs flow. Keys' first words here, the lead-in to "No One," are "We were at the end of the album, and it was finished, and…" – so it provokes the feeling of walking into the venue as the gig is in progress. Furthermore, much of her intro to the following "Brand New Me" was cut. For all its choppiness, VH1 Storytellers is enjoyably off-the-cuff, with Keys' anecdotes (including an extended tale about the making of "You Don't Know My Name") and remarks ("I love an acoustic guitar!") often delivered as she and her band are playing.