I think he's brilliant. Justified was a decent album, but Futuresex/Lovesounds blew it away. Unfortunately he has the stereotype of a male pop star hanging over his head - but he writes a lot of his own music and does actually play piano at his concerts, so he's obviously musically adequate and not just a nice face and voice for teenage girls.
I saw a live version of What Goes Around a while ago and was really surprised, it blew me away.
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