Reviews
"'The Thing About Love' begins as a melancholy R&B lament and rolls into pure pop-rock uplift..." -- Grade: B, 4 stars out of 5 -- "AS I AM advances by showing an experimental side....The music is dizzying, even mesmerizing.", "She certainly has vocal dexterity and prodigious keyboard skills....Tracks like No One and Thing About Love become exercises in power soul...", 3 Stars Out of 5 -- "The Prevailing Mood Is Reflectively Soulful and the Prevailing Tempo Mid.", Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "Keys' ever-deepening vocal power is the first thing you notice on AS I AM.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "On her melodically powerful third studio album, she matures into the matriarch of her genre."
