@Grammy Dammy Sammy

Alright my final comment. Since we are keeping it real, neither Adele or Whitney were soul singers. Whitney was pop from jump and Adele is AC, but both have soul to me. Adam Levine has soul, Chris Daughtry has soul, just to let you know i'm not being genre specific. Bey's "sound" is not the issue. It's just like you said, she EMOTES, she doesn't live it. If a record on par with IWALY was given to her it would not be as great.

And my point about Dreamgirls is that if she sung listen like Jhud sung AIATY, she would've won an award lol (considering that's the only reason Jennifer won).