If you've ever seen Miguel live, you know that he was basically born to be a successful entertainer. He's too beautiful, too talented, too slickly assured to live out half his waking hours in an office somewhere, and it's virtually impossible to imagine him doing retail or food service or international diplomacy or whatever. He's a crisp, precise perfectionist onstage, his every dance step and flirty eyebrow-waggle planned out minutely in a rehearsal studio weeks ahead of time. So it's been fascinating to watch his career-long evolution into a hazily soulful stoner-messiah type. At the very beginning of his career, with his unjustly kinda-forgotten 2010 debut All I Want Is You, Miguel was pushing for something resembling mainstream R&B stardom. But mainstream R&B stardom doesn't really exist anymore, at least not in the way it did in past decades. So Miguel's pushed himself toward more free-flowing music while still coming across as a slick professional. It's like watching Usher, in real time, doing his best to become Hendrix, and doing a better job than anyone could've possibly anticipated.