Wow @ the shade.

Everyone talking about her being underrated and such, have you invested in any of her albums?

She has already recorded R&B and Adult Contemporary R&B/Neo-Soul on her first two Gospel albums while Unexpected was one the first dance-pop albums by an R&B artist.

Since 2008, after topping the US dance charts with We Break the Dawn (which was also a top 50 hit here in the UK and top 40 in Hungary) and The Greatest (#39 on Billboard decade-end Dance chart), Michelle has been indulging in more theatre with the lead role of Roxie Hart in the play Chicago in both the prestigious European theatre central of the West End in London (where I met her twice in '09) and also back in the US on Broadway. More recently she has played the lead female role in David E. Talbert's new play What My Husband Doesn't Know, soon to be released on DVD.

Michelle has been working and getting that paper. "Divas getting money" as her bandmate Beyonce would sing.

All Michelle's albums have been great critical successes and well-recieved by her fans and that's all that matters. Sure, a voice like her's and with her writing ability (she co-wrote half of her first two albums), she deserves much greater commerical success, but maybe now she's escaped the shadow of The Knowles she can achieve that.