His vocals, always strong, are now more nuanced and expressive. When a Man Is Wrong, he is charismatic and commanding.
Seal can sound mythic and virile and optimistic and lost and loving all in the same song.
Although love is his main subject on Human Being, it is not his only one. The song was inspired by a trip Seal took to Monte Carlo two years ago. The city was filled with wealthy whites, and the only other person of color he saw was a black street cleaner. Hailing from mean streets himself, Seal grows passionate when talking about gangsta rap. They make videos of loads of women in Jacuzzis and scantily clad and refer to them as ho's, taking the whole ghetto life and glorifying it and showing that this is what you have to aspire to.