NEW MUSIC: ALICIA KEYS - “TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART”
Friday, October 30, 2009

♫ Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
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Off the heels of the success of her featuring on “Empire State of Mind,” and the release of her first single, “Doesn’t Mean Anything,” Alicia Keys drops her second single, “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart.”
The new single comes from Keys’ forthcoming album, Elements of Freedom and was produced by Jeff Bashker. The album is set to hit stores December 15th.






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76.
alicia
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
thanks, honey. i love you. i used to say, i am me, now it’s us, now it’s we. shonda who?
77.
mimi
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
shes a homewrecker…what she do??? write this song for mashoda, bish please!
78.
SOME WOMEN ARE LOST!!!!
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
I LIKE ALICIA’S SONG…BUT IT’S FUNNY HOW PEOPLE CAN BE SO INVOLVED WITH ANOTHER ARTIST’S BUSINESS THAT THEY MAY NOT LIKE AS MUCH….BUT WHEN THE ARTIST THEY LIKE IS LIVING A LIE THEY FEEL THE NEED TO DEFEND THE PERSON! BUT YET THEY WILL BE THE FIRST ONE TO CRITICIZE ANOTHER ARTIST THEY DON’T LIKE! REGARDLESS ALICIA AND SWIZZ ARE COMMITTING ADULTERY!!! I WOULD HATE TO SEE THE WOMEN WHO ARE MOCKING MASHONDA BY TELLING HER TO GET OVER IT…WHEN THEIR HUSBANDS LEAVE THEM FOR ANOTHER WOMAN AND PUBLICLY FLAUNT IT IN THEIR FACE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE!!!! GOD BLESS THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE AND WOMANHOOD…WE SABATOGE THEM BOTH WITHOUT A BLINK OF AN EYE!!!
79.
prince
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
mommy, alicia is my mom now! alicia gives me big gifts, because she sells. me, alicia and daddy don’t need you anymore. you’re the weakest link! you’ve been discarded! nanananana!
80.
lauryn
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
who mentioned my name? my name is empress! or call me ms. hill. alicia and i are god’s gifts, we are his most valuable creatures. we do his work, and in return, we get whatever man we wish for. it’s all love. what is a piece of paper. civi-lies-ation, sheep! we are the conquering lionessess. bombaclat. enlightenment. love. ms. hill.
81.
LOST WE ARE....
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
@73…AMEN! Black woman are the GREATEST HATERS and BACK STABBERS! Some of us have lost our morals and need to respect one another…so that is why we fall for anything and screw around with each others’ men because we are LOST!!!!
82.
alicia
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
ms hill. i know, right? i’m not here to sleep with a broken heart ever again. i’m willing to fight, fight for swizz. i need swizz by my side while i do god’s work, because he knows this superwoman’s worth. swizz babe, if i aint got you, it doesn’t mean anything. this ain’t no teenage love affair, this is real love.
83.
lyrics
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Even if you were a million miles away
I could still feel you in my bed
Near me, touch me, feel me
And even in the bottom of the sea
I can still hear inside my head
Telling me, touch me, feel me
And all the time you were telling me lies
So tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
Tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
I’m gonna hold onto the times that we had
Tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
Have you ever tried sleeping with a broken heart
Well you can try sleeping in my bed
Lonely, only, nobody ever shut it down like you
You wore the crown, you make my body feel heaven-bound
Why don’t you hold me, need me, I thought you told me
You’d never leave me
Looking in the sky I can see your face
And i knew right where I’d fit in
Take me, make me
You know that I’ll always be in love with you
Right til the end
So tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
Tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
I’m gonna hold onto the times that we had
Tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
Anybody could have told you right from the start
It’s bout fall apart
So rather than hold onto a broken dream
Or just hold onto love
And I could find a way to make it
Don’t hold on too tight
I’ll make it without you tonight
So tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
Tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
I’m gonna hold onto the times that we had
Tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
84.
OrangeStar616
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
this song itself is mediocre @ best…..the premise of it is actually nicer than the execution
85.
French west indies !!!!
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
The song is really good people !! You should not be so hard, I don’t know what happened and it is none of my bizness but Alicia is just a human being, she is not perfect and never meant to be. You should stop idolizing famous people because they are just like us, be in the spotlight don’t make you a better person, they are human being and stay human being and make mistakes just like us…
86.
beezy
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Try Sleeping With A Un-Married Man
87.
FASHION MISFIT
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
SHOULD OF BEEN CALLED, TRY SLEEPING WITH A MARRIED MAN - A. KEYS
WH@RE!
88.
FASHION MISFIT
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
IF COMING FROM A. KEYS, IT SHOULD OF BEEN CALLED, TRY SLEEPING WITH A MARRIED MAN.
WH@RE!
89.
SAY WHAT??
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
This song is not bad but at the same time not all that great. Alicia has kinda fell off a little. She’s capable of better.
90.
LISA
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
I like it more than the first song. Can’t wait for the album!!
91.
Aileen
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Everyone should stop hating on Alicia…. we don’t live their lives and there’s no proof of infidelity…so stop hatin’ like you know…
92.
TINY
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
I totally agree with #14
I do love the song, but i feel that her current controversary will ruin her first weeks sales…
93.
TINY
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
totally agree with #14
I do love the song, but i feel that her current controversary will ruin her first weeks sales…
94.
alicias a homewrecker
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
how do you know its all women that visit the site?
what makes you think I’m a Chris brown and R kelley fan?
SMH @ people trying to come up excuses for that hoalicias behavior. Is this how you run your daily lives.
95.
Beau Mitchell
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
This song is pure fire!!! like the hook sold me…..ahhhhh i can hear this blowing the FUCK Up…i feel it…def shoulda been the first single!!!!! i see why she would be scared too but this is on some rihanna umbrella shit…go hard..lol
96.
Meadow
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
i’m not even going to get all into Alicia Keys’ personal B.I. But, her music has been steadily losing me since the 2nd album. I wanna hear that ultra soulful Alicia, not the soul/pop/rock Alicia. I’m talking about “You Don’t Know My Name” “A Woman’s Worth” DIARY” whooo. Please Ms. Keys…take us back.
97.
Mikki
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
DAMN!!! I wanna listen to this song soooo bad but I can’t bring myself to…just like #1 I think she might be mocking Mashonda…maybe another time idk
98.
try
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Here comes another batch of judgmental, angry, black folks….
I wish we could go back to the jazz or blues days. Where personal drama’s didn’t interfere with someone loving the MUSIC.
99.
SOMEBODYGOTTASAYIT
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Sounds like this should have been put out in 88″ or 89″, and I really wish people would get back to singing. I’m getting old and whispering on songs is starting to get on my nerves.
100.
queen
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
how/when/why have we become so self-righteous when it comes to artists? it’s kind of sad.
101.
BIGVON
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
CAN SOME OF U DUM LADIES SHUT UP…U WOULD THINK U KNEW THESE PPL..IS THE SONG HOT OR NOT..DO U LIKE THE BEAT..ETC…WITH THAT SAID..THIS IS A BANGERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!..AND ANY OF U WHO THINK DIFFERENT IS DUMMIEZ WITH BAD EARS..I CANT STAND TO READ COMMENTS ON HERE DAY IN AND DAY OUT ABOUT..”I WANT PPL TO GET BACK 2 THA BASICS..I WANT GOOD MUZIK..IM AN IDIOT AND WOULD’NT KNOW A HIT IF I HEARD ONE ANYWAY…IS WHAT SHOULD BE SAID..THIS IS ALMOST HOW TO MAKE A HIT 101….REAL TALK..AND I AINT EVEN NO A KEYS FAN LIKE THAT..I APPRECIATE HITS
102.
truthz
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
This song is the business! Alicia just took me back to the eighties. If someone mentions Mashonda or homewrecker in the next Alicia Keys post………………………. I am so over this website.
103.
DRADomination
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
@SIRMAM talk that real shit…these chicks on here quickly jumped bakk on CB’s penis after he physically harmed someone, had pics of the abuse, gave apologies and BOOP bakk on him…meanwhile all we hear is a scorned woman who does interviews n twitter blasts about AK, talk to ya husband sheesh..thas prob why she didnt know her man was kinda over the marriage smh goin on wit life with a talented sistah…wat is alicia to do talk about some shit its a private matter why shudd she..yall talk about double standards hppmhh u ladies get off her personal and lets talk about THE MUSIC that is all
104.
SIRMAM
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
@94 I’ll take it yoy were refering to me.
First off if it doesn’t apply, then there’s no need to waste your time commenting on it. I never said it was an all female blog.
Everybody and they momma know that this site is majority females on here look at the names and the kind of post they put up here. Second, no one is making excuses for what Alicia did because neither you or me know what happened. There’s three sides to this story and you are calling someone a homewrecker solely based on one side which is ignorant. SMH @people half the story and drawing their own conculsions on a person.
105.
URALLHATERS
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
all these homewreckers comments are getting boring, come up with something new please
106.
april
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
exactly!
the same people going hard for cb are criticising alicia….damn hypocrites!
you’d think some of the people getting so angry are mashonda or her relative. you don’t know any of them! so stay outta their damn business
people can be so f*cking judgemntal! so yaw are saying you’ve never done something wrong before? gtfoh……….
107.
april
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
oh love the track btw….get it alicia!
funny how people are posting several irrelevant essays when a simple HOT or NOT is required….
108.
krys
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
love the record ….. people need to stop talking as if they know what happen
if you dont enjoy the music … keep moving
109.
POSITIVE CHICK
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
I loooove this song, go AKEYS!!
110.
POSITIVE CHICK
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Some people can be really disgusting to me. Very fickle folks indeed
At first Alicia Keys was cool. She was the truth
Now yall call her a homewrecking slum…smh
It just proves my point that people love you then hate you when you have personal issues…ex: Whitney, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, RKelly etc.
Sometimes you have to die for people to apprecite you again: Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, etc
SHAME ON YOU FOLKS. These celebs are humans too
111.
Beautydoll
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Song SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
112.
NOVA
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Bee Gees
How can you mend a broken heart - go fuck someone husband.
113.
Mrs. Purple Rain
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also love DMA, will be buying that album for sure. I’ve been waiting for this album.
114.
Mrs. Sk8board P (ak & bk stan)
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
SMH! the same people talking shit, but don’t know shit.. SO QUICK to JUDGE another woman, based off fucking “gossip/blog” sites.. Please cut the bullshit
i love the song, wayyy better than “doesn’t mean anything”
115.
cali panamami [don't follow me, it leads to something else]
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
i mean i still respect her as an artist and all, but i really think this song came at the wrong time in her personal life, ya know.
it’s a really good song though…
that’s all i was saying…
116.
MizzJacquetta
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
This song is cool!!!!
117.
Mrs. Purple Rain
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
@ 114 SOOOOO agree with you
Damn I can’t stop listening to this song
118.
a4amazn
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Isn’t this post about the song? I dont know alicia personally so i dont kno what happened. nonetheless… I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS MY SHIII RIGHT NOW!
tonight i’m gonna find a way to make it without u la la la la la laaaaa lol
119.
jenieycancellieri
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
I can’t listen to AKeys anymore……….smh!
120.
jenieycancellieri
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
I can’t listen to AKeys anymore……….smh!
121.
jenieycancellieri
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Alicia, I’m sure ur man’s ex (thanks 2 u) “WIFE” is sleeping with a broken heart……….vows don’t mean nothing anymore………smh……….what about the kids? anyone worried about their little broken hearts? smh
122.
Ms. AKA
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
So boring…Alicia has definately fallen off. I will not be buying her cd because she is boring. She left her R & B roots to be be more mainstream and it is not working…
123.
Pie
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
This song is a killer! I missed Alicia singing over a hard beat.
124.
john
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
Way better than her first single. Would you people stop bringing that “homewrecker” stuff into every single Alicia Keys post? Are you guys bitter or something?
Doesn’t Mean Anything didn’t make me want to cop the album. This makes me more interested in her project.
125.
ridetilwedie
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
THE SONG IS HOT!!! HOW TACKY OF SOME OF YOU TO LET WHATEVER HAPPENED GET IN THE WAY OF YOU ACKNOWLEDGING HER ARTISTRY. I NEED A GOOD VIDEO FOR THIS!
126.
QWERTY
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
And this is why she is one of the #1 women in R&B today. She crafts killer R&B songs.
127.
luvs
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
‘You wore the crown, you made my body feel heaven-bound’ SPILL it, Alicia! She is giving me heartbroken chick on the side on this one. Love it.
128.
live
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
i might cop the album. you can’tt deny her on dis.
129.
dancerguy
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
all of u people have no life whatsoever to be worried about another adults personal life.get ur own money and then worry about alicia.she’s still gonna sell!anyways i like it.when i heard the title of the song i thought it would be sad but no…its gotta different feel to it.i dig it alicia.keep the good shit coming!
130.
French west indies !!!!
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
The song
is really good people !! You should not be so hard, I don’t know what happened and it is none of my bizness but Alicia is just a human being, she is not perfect and never meant to be. You should stop idolizing famous people because they are just like us, be in the spotlight don’t make you a better person, they are human being and stay human being and make mistakes just like us…
131.
GeeGee
Friday, October 30, 2009 /
love is a crazy thing, and sometimes when you think your in love, someone else comes along, and you fall even deeper for that person..you guys never knows what happened between alicia and moshanda, and swizz…and quite honestly, WHO CARES??! im sure half of the people calling her a home-wrecker have also been dealt the short hand of the stick by being with a man who was involved with someone else…i LOVE the song..its something different! i love alicia keys, and she is a talented woman…TALENT DOES NOT EQUAL INNOCENCE! and when she does in her personal life does not mirror her ART! love it, and i will support her!!
132.
San
Saturday, October 31, 2009 /
Some of yall been lookin for a reason to hate on Alicia since she took over and now that yall THINK yall know about her, Mashonda and Swiss’ situation yall have gotten what yall wanted a reason to hate on another great black female artist. Get real.
This song is AMAZING! Got like an oldies or better an 80s vibe to it.
133.
trilla
Saturday, October 31, 2009 /
I love Alicia no matter what people say about her. She slept with a married man and so have many other women. She’s not first and definitely won’t be the last. Only god can judge her.
This new single is hot! Hope its a huge hit for her.
134.
Beyond Single
Saturday, October 31, 2009 /
This ia s Good Single!
135.
londonlily
Saturday, October 31, 2009 /
no women can take anothers womens man . in his heart he was already gone and his wife knows that she wants to play victim. alicia doesnt have special powers to make that man leave his wife alicia didnt marry that woman swiss beats did. so she owes her nothing
136.
natalia
Saturday, October 31, 2009 /
It’s O-K.
I prefer John Mayer’s “Dreaming with a Broken Heart”.
137.
asunkee
Saturday, October 31, 2009 /
This much better than the 1st single.
138.
Ra-Ra
Sunday, November 1, 2009 /
Love it. Much better than the first single.
139.
Ra-Ra
Sunday, November 1, 2009 /
What does her music have to do with who she’s involved with personally? You people are so crazy. You don’t know these people. You don’t know what was happenning in Swiss beatz’ home. Stop acting like these celebrity gossip sites are CNN.com.
140.
Starr
Sunday, November 1, 2009 /
i didn’t even think about mashonda when I first saw the title of the song..for some reason I thought of John Mayer’s “Dreaming With A Broken Heart”…I don’t kno why…but anyways…I like this song, and can’t wait for her album.
141.
Starr
Sunday, November 1, 2009 /
IA @ Londonlily..this stuff happens all the time. whether they were legally divorced, they were separated..Swizz probably on many occasions, made it clear to Mashonda that he didn’t want to be with her anymore. I have a feeling Swizz has wanted to divorce her, but Mashonda can’t let go. I think I read somewhere that Mashonda was bringing her kids into the situation. I can’t imagine trying to guilt someone into staying with me…having to keep up with the charade that we are still in love..smh..I feel if Swizz and Alicia are happy, let it be. My views on Alicia have not changed. I still am a huge fan of hers.
142.
OK
Sunday, November 1, 2009 /
I like the song
143.
Chellez
Sunday, November 1, 2009 /
This song is definitely HOT!!
144.
ChokLitFactory
Sunday, November 1, 2009 /
WOW ppl are really not feeling AK b/c of this whole thing with Mashonda?? Is it b/c we actually know Mashonda as an artist (sort of) that we care?? Also, to the ppl talking about Lauryn Hill’s situations, the difference is that LH came up in the late 90s when we didn’t have blogs and nobody talked about an Artist’s dirt like we do now. Now everybody wants to judge an artist based on their personal life. Not to throw stones b/c I cursed CB’s situation after he beat up Rihanna.
That being said, I like this song alot! I’ve always liked AK as an artist, saw in concert last year and she was great. I wasn’t feeling her first single but I like this one. Keep ya head up Mashonda!!
145.
Tami
Sunday, November 1, 2009 /
This song is hot. Love it.
146.
1 CANDIDS: ALICIA KEYS ON THE SET OF NEW VIDEO « Istephjohn’s Weblog
Thursday, November 5, 2009 /
[...] Alicia Keys takes to the streets to film her new music video for her second single “Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart” from her upcoming fourth album, due in stores on December [...]
147.
Spelmanite08
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 /
See, this is what the African American FEMALE community DOES NOT NEED! The only twoyoung African American starlets out there thats doing their thing would be Beyonce and Alicia Keys. Alicia is beautiful. Why she had to be trifling and then publish it is beyond me. I thought all of this was rumors, but apparently its true. I would like to put a prayerful hand upon Mashonda’s shoulder when she hears this or thinks about it because she does not deserve it. Beyonce should watch out because Alicia has proven to be the triflin Rhianna type. Ugh.
148.
gigi
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 /
I love it. and Please would ya’ll move on from the mashonda crap. Alicia owed her nothing Swizz did. Ya’ll sound like Mashonda full of hate move one and get over it.. Alicia rocks..
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