UNTHINKABLE

The song unthinkable is was written and singing by Alicia Keys in 2010 from her album The element of freedom for an artist who has built her career on songs about love, lust and heartache, she has never sounded quite as vulnerable and exposed as she does here. Analyzing the video of the song Unthinkable of Alicia Keys, the video shows the love story about two interracial guys in different decades, from the 1950s to the present. The melody is so melancholic because the song wants to express the feelings about two guys that cant be together for their different races. In this way, racism has existed throughout human history, and may be defined as the hatred of one person by another because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. It has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of nations, and legal codes. As follows, the racism because of skin color mostly is from white people to African American people, but in this case, the video shows the opposite. The African American people has been abused in some many cases and them in defense acting in the same way to the white people like shows in the video. On the other hand, considering the lyric of the song, the message is from an African American women who is in love with a white guy and she said If we do the unthinkable will it make us look crazy, she said that because is not normal that a African American women has a relationship with a white men. That is because according to the racism the African American people have to be excluded for their color skins, also in the video show a little town of only African American people, thats why if they has a relationship all community could judge them. Finally the name of the album The element of freedom has a relation with the song because that means the freedom of racism, and that can be shown in the video, and in the lyric when she said If you ask me I'm ready, she was ready to confront to the racism society over her love.