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Meanwhile, Keys is working her songbook. While some performers get tired of playing their hits, Keys continues to look forward to the moment in every show when she gets to dust off Fallin'. "I drag it around like a damn badge of honor. So many people told me that that song in particular would never work. 'It's too urban, it's too black, it'll never cross over.' The fact that it was successful told me one thing: Nobody knows anything," she says. "A lot of those people who doubted are out of jobs now," she adds. Keys will be keeping hers.