In a recent revealing interview with E! Television, Janet Jackson was asked to name three women she would most like to date if she were a lesbian.

The singer admitted she just can’t look beyond Alicia Keys: “I don’t know if I have three. I think I would pick Alicia Keys, for sure. I think she’s wonderful.”

Perfect choice. Enough said about it really.

Fancy seeing the world with ten-time GRAMMY award winning recording artist Alicia Keys?

Of course you do! So you’ll surely be interested in entering a contest the star is holding on her official website. Alicia is looking for a background singer to join her on the As I Am World Tour and is holding video auditions online.

If you think you’ve got what it takes, then head over to the contest page now for more information.

Good luck!

Alicia Keys has issued a response to the controversial quotes attributed to her in the current Blender magazine article when she appeared on the Ryan Seacrest radio show on Tuesday morning.

The musician was reported to have told the magazine that the government created gangsta rap as “a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didn’t exist.”

But Keys explained to Seacrest: “I feel that I wasn’t a hundred per cent clear on what I was saying and so, because of that, it somehow got misinterpreted that I was saying that the government was creating gangsta rap. That’s not what I was saying. What I was saying was that the term gangsta rap was so over sloganized during that time. That’s what I was trying to talk about.

Alicia Keys is to put on a special performance for NBC’s Today Show next week in New York City.

Fans are being invited to see Alicia live on Monday, April 21st, for a special ‘Rock The Plaza’ performance kicking off this year’s Toyota Concert Series on the Today Show.

You need to show up early though. Viewing is on a first-come, first-served basis outside of Today’s Window on the World Studio located on 49th street and Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

Some great still photos of Alicia Keys in her newest music video “Teenage Love Affair” have been posted on her website.

The photos were originally released to official fan club members on Friday, before being made available to the wider world on Monday. Information on joining Alicia’s club is available here!