Alicia Keys Explains Why "Put it in a Love Song" Video with Beyonce Never Came Out

Alicia Keys talked to Essence.com about her upcoming album Girl on Fire, due out November 27th and she also revealed why the long-awaited music video she shot with Beyonce over a year ago, "Put it in a Love Song" never got released. 



ESSENCE.com: Finally, fans have been dying to know what ever happen to the "Put It In a Love Song" video you shot with Beyoncé?

Alicia Keys on the set of
"Put it in a Love Song" video shoot

KEYS: Ohhh man! Y'all aren't going to leave me alone about that! Sometimes with creative things [it] all comes together and it's (makes perfection kissing noise) and sometimes things almost come together and it's better to just leave it. So we love that song. We had a ball shooting the video. It just so happens that the whole thing, for some reason or another, didn't quite come together so we just decided to leave it. And that's what happened.

Hmm mmm. I'm not buying it. 

Read the entire interview over at Essence.com

Alicia Keys, who recently guest starred on America's Next Top Model, will link up with Beyonce again during her black ball gala.

Beyonce, along with Carole King, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey will all be in attendance for Alicia Keys’ annual fundraising gala on November 1st at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom

Every year Alicia Keys hosts an extravagant Black Ball event dedicated to raising money for her Keep a Child Alive charity which assists people in Africa and India who have been affected with HIV/AIDS.