By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz are still going strong. Alicia and the producer may be married with a son now, but it hasn’t been an easy road for the famous couple. In fact, the details surrounding their initial phases of dating are sketchy depending on who you talk to, and Swizz’s ex wife Mashonda still claims to this day the couple started a romance while he was married to her. Although Alicia denies Mashonda’s claims, other people are still labeling her romance with Swizz as a very odd pairing. But let Alicia tell it in her recent interview with Marie Claire UK, she wasn’t always feeling Swizz and she was actually turned off by his flashiness for a long time before her feelings eventually changed. The singer says:
“That’s When I Knew is definitely an ode to my husband… Honestly I didn’t really like him that much. I thought he was too ostentatious.
“I think we’ve taught each other a lot,’ she says of her husband. ‘He’s taught me to live more fully and I think I’ve taught him to live more deeply.
“Swizz will have the fastest car, the biggest jewellery, the loudest jacket; everything with him is really over the top. I used to see him and think, ‘He is so annoying.'”
Alicia also says her marriage to Swizz has taught her the importance of speaking up more:
“You have to speak up. To say, ‘I don’t like that, it’s not cool, don’t do that to me’, but it’s not easy, especially with people you love. I think getting older has made me evolve in a lot of ways and made me more relaxed about saying how I feel, no matter what.”
Check out the cover for the July issue below:
I like that picture…thats all I have to say
So the fact that he was already married wasn’t a turnoff?
So the turnoff was he was flashy, not being married? Come on Alicia.
Girl good bye. That wedding ring should have been a red flag to walk away. I haven’t looked at Alicia the same since.
Oh whatever. So disappointed in this chick.
Well Mashonda should have been the reason she couldn’t stand him. LOL.
The more she talks about this man like he wasn’t married when she started dating him, the more annoyed I get with her.
Basic chick who plays the piano and “attempts” to sing. Over her.
Smh. She just needs to stop talking about Swizz. It just reminds everyone how they got together.
This chick talks like he wasn’t even married! She’s so disrespectful. And then she’s trying to front like she was too classy for Swizz’s ghetto a-s. Girl bye! You are a bird and so is that toucan you married!
No class whatsoever.
Alicia Keys is a mess. She really needs to stop talking about Swizz because it’s only made things worse. Didn’t her last album struggle in sales too? I think the whole Mashonda thing really did hurt her.
She sounds like a real home wrecker here.
…so …she’s just gonna skip right on over the fact that he was MARRIED?? Oh ok girl.
Not a fan of her at all its a said case when you are in the spot light already then you take a married man from his child and wife. Not someone I will be supporting at all…..
I love Alicia an Swizz together. They compliment each other well.
Alicia is married to Swizz and she can talk about the love of her life. They are both happy.
The negative comments are unnecessary. It has been at least 6 years. Let it Go People.
I’ll support other singers who had more sense than to mess with married men. No thanks.
Alicia’s PR team is on here and writing generic comments. How pathetic.
I am not part of her PR team. I have my own mind and thoughts and I don’t agree with yours.
Alicia has a successful music career and I will continue to support a great artist. She can continue to talk about her marriage and husband. It is her life.