This is a new photo from the promo sessions for Alicia Keys’ fourth full-length album The Element Of Freedom, which has been postponed to Docermber 15, 2009. The record label insists that Ms. Alicia Keys herself wants to add some tracks to the album and that is the reason for the push-back. But, something smells fishy as Alicia was doing the promo campaign for it already and this fall quarter is very busy. Maybe, she is trying to avoid other artists as every album she ever had debuted at #1 in the US charts. So, she probably is avoiding a slip from that glory.

It’s set to be really good. According to Keys, “The Element of Freedom is diverse, though she noted that there is a “balance”. She explained that “one side is strong and one side is vulnerable”, which she pointed to as the theme of the album. The album has a “strong, edgy feel”, but is also “intimate and vulnerable and delicate”. While on Black Entertainment Television’s 106 & Park, she described the album: “The way that the songs progress [on the album] are gonna take you on a natural high. I just want you to feel a sense of freedom, I want you to feel out-of-the-box, feel inspired, You’re definitely going to be taken on a trip, I know you’re going to be shocked, you’re going to hear things that you probably didn’t think that I would sound like. It’s a journey.”