Why We Don't Hear From Macy Gray Anymore
Despite broad U.S. acclaim for her 1999 album,On How Life Is,and huge success in the U.K. with her follow-up, The Id, Gray's third album, The Trouble with Being Myself, was a major commercial disappointment. Though it reportedly fared better in Great Britain, the BBC said "her quirkiness was initially endearing" but now "tends toward cartoonishness."