If I Ain't Got You

Nine out of every ten people who've ever said, Joe, can I sing for you? They sung this one Alicia Keys song.

If I Ain't Got You.

If I Ain't Got You.

Why they pick that song? Is there a gimmick to the singers? Like, you can hit different notes.

What is it? Why they pick that song? It's a

And the director and anybody who's hosted auditions before said, if I could get paid off every time I heard a man come in and sing Ordinary People for an audition, I'd be rich.

Just because it's one of those songs that people love to cover.

And I think If I Ain't Got You is one of those songs, too.

I do New York, New York.

I love to do Ordinary People by John Legend, If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys.

And then this past weekend, I went and did karaoke with a friend, Ty, talking about you again.

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It's like she's processing her experiences through her art.

Exactly, and one track features a duet with her mom on Alicia Keys, If I Ain't Got You.

That's got to be emotional.

Wait, seriously.

Um, and then kind of the big ones, if you will, Fallin, No One, Empire State of Mind, like, those all come...

If I Ain't Got You, those all come kind of in act two.

Mm-hmm.

So you're, so you're really on your, on the edge waiting for the Alicia K- s- the Alicia Keys songs that you know and love.

Yeah.

Like, you've been waiting for these hits.

You've been waiting for If I Ain't Got You, and then he sings it, and then immediately after he sings Fallen.

So you're like, "Oh," and so you auto- automatically kind of feel connected to his character because he's been singing, like, you, the songs that the general public is the most familiar with w- from Alicia Keys' discography, which I think is quite interesting and clever, but also a bit annoying.

But anyway, yeah, so that is for vocals.

We're going up against either Crazy by Knowles Barkley, I Feel Good by James Brown, or If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys.

So it's coming down to three.

so we got uh we're going to choose one next week so hopefully i got one already picked out and uh yes you will get a little preview of the before and after so it'll be me and uh my voice instructor and it's been a while since i've done hotel california and well actually the song is nothing on