>...Bitter is NOT an R&B album.

I never said it was R&B. R&B and soul are different.

>It's an acoustic pop/rock one.

Right, we don't agree here.

>She even said that the goal of that album was to get her out
>of the R&B/Soul box. I would vote either of her first two
>albums as two of the best soul albums of the last decades.

Not sure that artists always reach their goals, though. She may have said that, doesn't mean that listeners/audience don't classify it as soul.


>Also, the LJ soundtrack is mainly beloved by middle class
>blacks who are now in their mid 30s to mid 40s. That does not
>equate "black folks as a whole".

I doubt you have any empirical evidence of this and I was being snarky, so we can let this ride. But...LOL at "beloved by middle class blacks."