I am so sorry but I just need to add my two cents to this argument. I've been following Jermaine's career for a while and its true, he's dated.

He is talented and can sing but doesn't seem to understand his music sounds like he's singing to and for himself. Even if the industry is wrong for not accepting him he needs to change his game plan because at the end of the day, he wants to BE in the industry.

His voice sounds like its laced with phlegm and his performance style is so 2002 and that's why nobody is responding. He can lie to himself all he wants, but I checked his downloads and none of the songs had anything over 2,000, some didn't even have 1000.

Nobody is saying he should stop making R&B, but he needs to realize that nobody cares about the music he's making because it's selfish, almost like he doesn't care what's actually happening on the charts or what people are actually responding to.

He needs to ditch the MJ dance moves and write songs that all can enjoy because if he doesn't he'll be stuck in the same place for year on year when people he is more talented than beat him.

Another thing, this blog is too blame for his delusions too. I follow you all on twitter and see how people big him up but nobody is brave enough to come out and say what they think about the music and that's why he thinks what he's doing is working.

My advice to him is to again ditch the MJ style, ditch the whiny vocals and learn to sing songs without doing runs in every other line. He also needs to work with writers who can make music that the public would be willing to buy, because people aren't even downloading the music he's making now for free. I hope he takes my advice.