Alicia Keys beginnt das Jahr 2020 mit einer brandneuen Single: ‚Underdog', den sie zusammen mit Ed Sheeran schrieb, ist ein weiterer Vorab-Song aus ihrem kommenden, siebten Studioalbum „Alicia", das im Frühling erscheinen wird.
„Manche Leute sind möglicherweise der Ansicht, dass ‚Underdog' ein negativer Begriff ist, doch für mich ist es ein kraftvolles Wort, das Menschen repräsentiert, die vielleicht unterschätzt werden, sich aber immer wieder Herausforderungen stellen und Erwartungen übertreffen. Ich liebe dieses Lied so sehr, weil es um das wahre Leben, echte Menschen und unsere Erfahrungen geht. Wir waren alle in unserem Leben schon in Situationen, in denen wir Widrigkeiten meistern mussten.
Es ist nie einfach. Einer meiner Lieblingstexte in dem Lied lautet:
‚They say I would never make it but I was built to break the mold'.
Ich denke, dass es keinen Menschen auf diesem Planeten gibt, der sich schon einmal so gefühlt hat."
- Alicia Keys
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VERSE 1
She was walking in the street
Looked up and noticed
He was nameless
He was homeless
She asked him his name and
Told him what hers was
He gave her a story
About life
With a glint in his eye
And a corner of a smile
One conversation
A simple moment
The things that change us
If we notice
When we look up sometimes
B SECTION
They said I would never make it
But I was built to break the mold
The only dream that I been chasing
Is my own
HOOK
So I sing a song for the hustlers
Trading at the bus stop
Single mothers
Waiting on a check to come
Young teachers
Student doctors
Sons on the front line
Knowing they don't get to run
This goes out to the Underdog
Keep on keeping at what you love
You'll find that someday soon enough
You will rise up rise up yeah
VERSE 2
She's riding in a taxi
Back to the kitchen
Talking to the driver
'Bout his wife and his
Children
On the run from a country
Where they put you in
Prison
For being a woman
And speaking your mind
She looked in his eyes
In the mirror and he smiled
One conversation
A single moment
The things that change us
If we notice
When we look up
Sometimes
B SECTION
They said I would never make it
But I was built to break the mold
The only dream that I been chasing
Is my own
HOOK
So I sing a song for the hustlers
Trading at the bus stop
Single mothers
Waiting on a check to come
Young teachers
Student doctors
Sons on the front line
Knowing they don't get to run
This goes out to the Underdog
Keep on keeping at what you love
You'll find that someday soon enough
You will rise up rise up yeah
BREAK
Everybody Rise Up
You better Rise Up
HOOK
So I sing a song for the hustlers
Trading at the bus stop
Single mothers
Waiting on a check to come
Young teachers
Student doctors
Sons on the front line
Knowing they don't get to run
This goes out to the Underdog
Keep on keeping at what you love
You'll find that someday soon enough
You will rise up rise up yeah