Lows of the album include boring follow-up single "Love Letter" and the laughably dirty Taxi Cab. Kelly flirts with elements of classic soul, but suddenly relapses into his all-too-familiar rut of braggadocio and seduction songs with abysmal lyrics. But that's pretty much the highlight of the album, minus the aforementioned "When A Woman Loves." The rest of the album, R. Kelly's voice and style way better than MJ's. And, let's face it, the song always fit R. Kelly wrote for MJ has finally been recorded by the original artist. Yes, the ballad "You Are Not Alone" that R. Fact: if your best song on the album is a re-release of a song you wrote for Michael Jackson, we've got a serious problem. How wonderful that would have been if that was actually the case. Kelly to redeem himself from the auto-tuned steaming pile of "Untitled" that he released in 2009 and pave the way for him to revive his career with classic soul. Music critics, including myself, had seen the album as a way for R. I had been hyping up Love Letter for about a month from the strength of the incredible lead single "When A Woman Loves," a classic soul throwback which could have easily been something Al Green or even Marvin Gaye could have done if they were still relevant/alive. Kelly," or maybe more aptly-titled, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks or how not to pee on little girls." Sigh.This album can be summed up with the phrase "R.
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