>Badu...constantly holding back on vocals in studio, relying
>on her "style" of expressing herself and sometimes delivering
>lazy vocals live ...she's great but if she cleared away the
>anchors she could really sail.

Definitely her last album was a joke. I don't give a fuck who wants to call it "artistic". That shit just sounds like "lazy ass mofucka trying to trick me out of my money" music.