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Contents 1 Whistle Register 2 Page quality 3 "music style" sounds too commercial 4 "MUSLIM NAME"? 5 "Translated from Muslim"? 5.1 Musical Style Section

[edit] Whistle Register

Never heard it

She hit D6 in a live performance of Stay in her live album. She hit it in mixed which is between chest and head registers. If she can hit D6 in mixed, theres a great chance she can hit E6 in head. Myke 21:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Where did the record sales numbers come from? They don't match the numbers in riaa.org

[edit] Page quality

this prose sucks. suggest someone writes it properly.

could you have any worse pictures?? on both pictures erykah badu is not recognizable. there are a million pictures out there, i suggest you put in one that actually shows here features.

I'm not sure about the use of "solely sample Erykah Badu's recordings," given that she does actually sing many of the songs included on the list; they're not sampled vocals, the songs simply don't appear on Erykah's albums.

[edit] "music style" sounds too commercial

The "music style" section sounds too much like an advertisement. It should probably be rewritten. 192.158.61.167 16:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "MUSLIM NAME"?

There is no such thing as a Muslim name, only names commonly used by muslims. These names however come from other languages, paticluary Arabic, it being the holy language —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.243.161.203 (talk) 06:14, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Translated from Muslim"?

Muslim is not a language either. Translated from Arabic, perhaps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauranen (talk • contribs) 23:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Musical Style Section

Pardon, but what is this paragraph trying to say? It is not clear and assumes the reader will readily understand its oblique and unqualified characterizations:

Badu's lyrics are highly personal philosophies which throw emotional challenges in the face of the listener.

What is the writer trying to say with "personal philosophies"? How can lyrics be "philosophies"?

And even more peculiar is "emotional challenged." What the darn is that?

67.87.92.56 (talk) 18:16, 1 February 2008 (UTC)