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}} ''Girl on Fire'' is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Alicia Keys. The album, which was released on November 22, 2012, is Keys' first release with RCA Records following Sony Music Entertainment's decision to close J Records during a company reshuffle. ''Girl on Fire'' was conceived shortly after Keys' marriage to record producer and rapper Swizz Beatz as well as the birth of her first child, Egypt. It is an R&B album with a mixture of conventional genre songs and piano ballads, some of which touch on Keys' marriage and motherhood. The album sold 159,000 copies in its first week in the United States and became her lowest opening sales for an album.〔 It was a considerable drop from her previous effort, ''The Element of Freedom'' (2009), which opened at #2 with sales of 417,000 units. The lead single was the title track; it charted at #7 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and #11 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and reached the Top 10 in several countries worldwide. The second single, "Brand New Me", was only released to US urban adult contemporary radio stations. Upon its release, ''Girl on Fire'' received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album has since spawned two further singles: The second international single "New Day" and the third US urban adult contemporary single "Fire We Make" (featuring Maxwell). At 56th Grammy Awards the album won in the Best R&B Album category.〔http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=27〕 == Background and development == ''Girl on Fire'' is Keys' fifth studio album, and follow up to 2009's ''The Element of Freedom''. It also serves as the singer's first release under RCA Records, after a re-organization at parent company Sony Music Entertainment led to her previous label J Records roster being absorbed into RCA.〔 After 2009, Keys got married to record producer and rapper Swizz Beatz, became a mother, began co-managing her own career, produced and directed both a Broadway play and short film, in addition to designing a line of trainers for Reebok. Keys had also either appeared on or produced material for several other artists including work on Kanye West, Emeli Sandé and Miguel's albums.〔 ''Essence'' reported that Keys began working on the album in February 2011. Speaking on how the events of the last three years inspired her during an interview with ''Billboard'', Keys stated: "These last three years have been the most in every way. The most newest, the most difficult, the most loving, the most dream-filled, the most breaking free . . . an entire crazy dynamic of lessons and emotions to grow into and claim. This whirlwind has definitely forced me to be who I am, to be free enough and brave enough to just not accept anything else-nor try to be anything else."〔 Speaking on how ''Girl on Fire'' was different to ''The Element of Freedom'', Keys said, "I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be. So every way that I've created now is totally in a new space. It's more in a true space of who I am and what story it is that I'm trying to tell, what it is I'm going through, what the world is going through. And it's really important for me to describe that and say that exactly how I see it, period. So, things are just new. The world is new! Everything feels like brand new to me." Keys even explained that the album title is a slight reference to Katniss Everdeen, the central character in the adventure novel series ''The Hunger Games'', of which she is a fan.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Girl on Fire (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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