But apart from the cover, this neo-soul beauty has few flaws. As she did on Who Is Jill Scott?, her debut of four years ago, Scott hits the mike as a multidimensional woman of color, one who is both authoritative and enlightening, yet still capable of making grown-ass men moist with her tantalizing voice.
Most of the baby-makers here are elegant and polished. Scott proclaims a woman can both be independent and need a man on the lyrically longing, acoustic-guitar-tickling "The Fact Is (I Need You)." Raphael Saadiq, a man I have yet to hear a weak-ass track from, helps out on the production of "Spring Summer Feeling," in which Scott rattles off what it takes to woo her. And then there's the downright orgasm-inducing "Not Like Crazy."
Scott also serves up a few musical portraits of black pride, such as her current radio hit "Golden" and "Family Reunion," a tale of a black family get-together ten times funnier (and more poignant) than that worthless flick The Cookout that came out a few weeks ago.
In short, Beautifully Human shows Scott continuing on her mission to stay positive, uplift her own culture and make everybody come together -- one bedroom at a time.
