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Alicia Keys is picking up the tempo and dropping some big beats in her latest single New Day. Keys steps into the pop genre with a heavy bass influenced song, a departure from her usual ballads, which most recently have included Girl On Fire and Brand New Me from her latest disc.

Evident after a few seconds of listening to the track, New Day was produced by Keys’ husband and hitmaker Swizz Beatz. Keys wrote the track along with her hubby and rap legend Dr. Dre. Easily Keys most upbeat single in years, the song is matched by a high energy music video.

The video splits its time between two settings, the first including footage of Alicia looking happy and confident while performing New Day in concert. The second scene shows Alicia in a gold tube top and black leggings singing in an alleyway while a group of male dancers perform a routine of tight choreography around her.

Off her fifth studio album Girl On Fire, check out Alicia Keys’ video for New Day below.

Alicia Keys has released the second single from her 2012 album Girl On Fire with the self-affirming ballad Brand New Me. The music video is simple in concept, with Alicia beginning the song seated at a piano, while shrugging off the advances of her video director. Keys shows that she is a ‘brand new person’ both with her lyrics and by literally peeling off her layers physically, throwing off her wig in the middle of the performance and crying.

Check out Alicia Key’s in her video for Brand New Me below.