The dialect she uses, as well as her ways of pronouncing most of her words, fits the mold which most people unconsciously hold for 'African American Woman'. A discussion of this auditory style dominates nearly all discussion of her work, causing the vast majority of commentators on music to conclude that she is lacking in authenticity, and therefore undeserving of serious consideration, not by virtue of her genre or the content of her songs, but because she sounds like a different race than what she was born. This is in spite of the fact that she has been living in the exact region from which this accent predominantly hails for the majority of her life, and by all indications developed as a part of the culture for whom this accent is common.
