In the interview, Keys explains that when she started off in the business, she was just a "girl from the street ... trying to do her thing" — which did not include embracing the glamour. "Stylists would come at me with seven-inch stilettos, but I wanted to wear Timberlands!"
Alicia Keys is featured on the front cover of the September edition of Vegas Magazine, she looks glowing and says she's more comfortable in her skin, "less rigid and more open to different experiences." Consequently, Keys has "lost her once-trademark tomboy-chic look" in favor of "a new sense of sophistication", according to the interviewer.
Keys goes on to admit she's guarded, dismisses rumors of her sexuality as silly and par for the course, and cops to dating a "really brilliant" unnamed man for a year now who "allows me to be my own woman."
Um, okay, sure. Whatever you say Alicia. I'm just going to look at the pretty pictures now.