I’d like to point out that the moral value of the narrative around Miguel’s supposed “modesty” only really works if you take for granted that the showiness, self-aggrandizement, and hater-denouncing among most popular R&B singers is unequivocally a bad thing, as though there are not good psychological, sociological, and aesthetic uses to be made of cockiness. And that if you do think that, you should think it about white men making rock, experimental, or electronic music too. Or is being “difficult,” “prickly,” and “abrasive” only a privilege awarded to the breed of geniuses who can’t get played on the radio?