Saw Alicia Keys at Madison Square Garden last night. Wow. This girl makes you proud to be a human being. A life force; her generation's Aretha. Except Aretha—different time, decades past—was strong through an awful lot of hurt. Alicia is Obama, New World strong. Beautiful. Musical. Passionate. Wow. She has a kind of purity about her—sexy as hell, not that kind of purity—in saying out loud it's possible to change the world. Check out her Africa AIDS initiative at keepachildalive.org. And you can't say enough about the voice. The song-writing. Never heard a concert crowd go crazy for someone like they did last night. Alicia Keys is a Superwoman. A Superstar.