Artist Alicia Keys performs "No One" at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas September 9, 2007
No One
Onstage by herself with just a keyboard, Keys immediately blew away the rest of the voices that had come before her even though she wasn't on perfect pitch. Naturally, half way through, a curtain came up, a bunch of back-up singers appeared and Keys sashayed over to a piano to do a middling cover of George Michael's Freedom. It's official: three-minute pop songs are now two minutes too long for the MTV attention span. I am 170 years old.