What the monarch wants! Alicia Keys responded to backlash about her set list for Party at the Palace — and revealed that Queen Elizabeth II chose all the songs herself.“Epic night at the jubilee!!
Celebrating the Queen and all the Queens!!!!!” the Grammy winner, 41, wrote via Instagram on Monday, June 6, alongside a behind-the-scenes video from the concert. “FYI: Every song was requested personally by the Queen.
Even EMPIRE!!”Some commentators wondered why Keys chose to perform “Empire State of Mind” for the 96-year-old royal’s Platinum Jubilee celebration when the song is definitively about the United States, and specifically New York.
The “If I Ain’t Got You” songstress included the tune in her Party at the Palace set on Saturday, June 4, along with “Girl on Fire” and “Superwoman.”The queen missed the concert because of ongoing “discomfort” after Trooping the Colour, but according to Keys, she still played a major part in planning the event. “Telling the boys that the queen requested the songs that I’m singing,” the pianist said in the clip while sitting in the back of a golf cart with her sons Egypt, 11, and Genesis, 7, whom she shares with husband Swizz Beatz. “And they were like, ‘You can’t refuse the queen.'”Egypt jokingly added: “You can’t refuse the queen.
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