In the bridge, Keys says that they modeling their lives like their characters and actors they see on television.
"We're living our dreams,yeah/We're living our dreams/We're living our dreams
We're living our dreams/(Oh)/We're living our dreams(We're living our dreams)/We're living our dreams(We're living our dreams)/We're living our dreams/(Oh yeah)."
The chorus is sung twice. However, for the second time it's far more improvised. She says that even though they break up they will be back together soon. She also segues into the second bridge.
"And we got to stay tuned...Sing it one more time now/Ya'll know we'll be breaking up/But we just might be back next week/This love is unbreakable/(ha,ha,ha,yeah,yeah)/Break it down, break it down like this/Yeah."
She says that they won't have much. However, they will live their lives according to their values. They won't cheat or swear or anything. It will be a sanitized life.
"No thing, no money, no sin, no temptation, talking 'bout nothing/No thing, no money, no sin, no temptation, talking 'bout nothing/No thing, no money, no sin, no temptation, talking 'bout nothing/No thing, no money, no sin, no temptation, talking 'bout nothin'"
The improvised second chorus is sung again but without the segue. It concludes the single.
"Yeah/(Unbreakable)/Yeah, yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah/(Unbreakable)/We just might be breaking up/But ya'll know we'll be back next week/I'm singing this love is unbreakable."
Keys has the charisma for a live performance. She understands that people don't want to hear an exact recording of the song from the album. She gets involved with the audience and tries to get them to sing along with her. There's a spark in her live vocals that isn't captured on the albums.
However, Keys' celebrity worship and emulation is problematic in the single. She appears guillible and dim. She thinks that if they act like the characters they see on television, everything will turn out all right. She forgets that writers break down the script by the scene. And also, that it's not real.
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1 - boothy
I think you may have taken this too literally ( forgive me but you I'm assuming your American so no surprise there)
She maybe holding these celebrity figures in high esteem as people to admire and perhaps copy, but the whole song has a tongue in cheek feel to it and to suggest that Alicia is actually saying "These people are good lets do what they do" is a tad rediculous.
What ever you do please don't listen to Marilyn Manson !!
2 - reggie von woic
Come now, Pam. I think you're being a little too harsh on Alicia. Like Boothy said above, you're taking the meaning of the whole thing a little too literally.
3 - Not Important
Oh my God!
What was that?
Have you ever listend to her song?
And even more important: Have you ever tried to unsterstand it the way Keys perhaps meant it?
My english is bad and I may not know all of these shows and stars she is singing about, but to me your interpretation is the absolute oposite of what Keys is singing.
She sings:
'Cause he ain't no different from you
And she ain't no different from me"
First of all:
She says "she ain't no different from ME! "
Thats very important!
She isn't taltking about herself as great star you should becomme like. Or as something better than you or me. She sees us and her equal.
Sorry but - i really absolutely cant understand your review.
"he ain't no different from you"
NO DIFFERENT!!!!
So why do you think she wants us to becomme as perfect as these stars are (your interpretation)
She says - there is no difference.
I cant get this!
Then she goes on by singing:
"So we got to live our dreams
Like the people on T.V."
We got to live OUR!!! dreams like they do.
People always look at these stars and tink:
Wow aren't they pretty, wow isn't there live perfect.
Coulnd't I be like Jada Smith and my boyfriend be as cool as Will Smith?
Could't we be as happy as they are?
So Keys says:
You (here too she is talking about herself- WE!) got to live your dreams, like they do.
Dont look at them and try to be as they are.
There ist no difference between you and her and your boyfriend and him.
Live YOUR dreams like they do, too.
You heared this part?
"No thing, no money, no sin, no temptation, talking 'bout nothing"
NOOOO money !
Not get rich like Oprah.
She says: We could be rich like they are.
Not we should be rich like them.
We could but it is not necessary!
Have you ever listend to any song from Keys?
"Some people need three dozen roses, and thats the only way to prove your love them"
"But I dont want nothing at all"
Im sorry but i just cant understand, how someone can interpret a song that "wrong"
To me it seems, you just wanted to see the song the way you did.
It seems you didn't even try to understand the song.
4 - Not Important
Im sorry, my comment was a little insulting.
I should have sad that more friendly.
Sorry for that
5 - sina
lol, u sound bitter.
Nothin irritates me more than ppl who overanalyze music that's SUPPOSED to be positive. Ppl like this writer are just folks who wanna b*tch and whine so they can get their name out there.
Get some soul in your spine willya?(oh wait, this person may shudder @ such a backwards thought.) Fundamentalists boyyy....
6 - Anita Jo
Whoever wrote this has OVER ANALYSED.
This song is inspirational.
This song is beautiful,
Whoever wrote this don't know anything.
Im even tempted to say whoever wrote this is not intelligent bt think about it Ill say this instead.
For some reason totally unknown to me and that is not apparent in this false, misleading review, the person who wrote it must have it in for Alicia Keys coz they just dissed her DOWN, but they had no right to do that.
We love Alicia and she is a real deep person, don't call her DIM. She certainly isn't that and for that reason she wouldn't even think that "celebrities are the standard for wonderful relationships" let alone believe it or write a song about it.
Who is the dim one? I think it is you.
And don't you ever call this song or anything related to Alicia Keys 'horrid'. Boy, you just offended me too by saying those false things.
7 - Erin
I think you might be a little jealous of the fact that Alicia Keys could sing about taking a dump and it would sound beautiful AND top the charts.
8 - jay
pam,you're an ass
this is a good and funny(lyrics) song
don't be jealous of alicia