Search - Alicia Keys :: How Come You Don't Call Me/Butterflyz

Alicia, but not quite Aretha.

pieters978@aol.com | London UK | 07/26/2002

(3 out of 5 stars)

"As you know, Alicia Keys is a good singer/songwriter with many talents, but she is just not ready to try and pull of powerful soulful ballads, especially not remakes. Her voice sounds shrill, sparse and sometimes painful in this remake of Prince's 'How come you don't call me'. I think she should stick to the more modern sound at which she does best. Don't get me wrong, the combination of her & the Neptunes does spice this track up into a hot modern remake, but that's the way it should stay: a remake. Overall a good track that Alicia shouldn't try and reproduce, but should come out successfully because of the Neptunes version."

Wonderful

Cynthia Selene | Miskolc, Hungary | 09/18/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a very cool song, as good as her first single Fallin'. I love the remix & the live version too. (BTW the Neptunes remix doesn't feature Justin Timberlake, thank God, so it must be only a rumor that it does.) The single also contains a good but a bit lengthy remix of Butterflyz, and the video of How Come You Don't Call Me."