Here's how good this album is. We thought her last CD, 'On How Life Is', was the finest debut by a Rhythm & Blues artist in many years. It appeared to give a much needed jolt to 'unrapped' R&B music. Well, this album kicks its... It is broader, more daring, more imaginative, funnier, sexier, more exuberant, more playful, and more expressive. There may be other R&B singers who flaunt the styles of blues, hip-hop, funk, disco, gospel, reggae and, perhaps, even raga, but we don't recall any with the chutzpah to sound like the leader of some wickedly twisted Bar Mitzvah band, just turn your smile into a blank-eating grin. This album is a circus and Macy is the center-ring performer holding the torch of Al Green in one hand, the torch of Sly and the Family Stone in the other, juggling a hundred other influences while balancing on the shoulders of Prince. Add her soulful scratch of a voice and this is just the tonic to lift the spirits in difficult times.