The first single from Gray's fifth studio album The Sellout, "Beauty in the World," is featured in the final sequence of the series finale, Hello Goodbye, of the ABC television series, Ugly Betty. "Beauty in the World" is also used as the theme in multiple videos created by Microsoft to promote Internet Explorer 9. Both singles released from the album ("Beauty in the World" and "Lately") are Top 10 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. On 16 February 2012 to participate in the Sanremo Festival as a guest, performing alongside Gigi D'Alessio and Loredana Berte with the song At least you in the universe, in the English version entitled Flame. Upon its release, The Sellout received generally mixed reviews from most music critics. Metacritic gave it an average score of 57, based on 15 reviews; Andy Gill of The Independent gave it 3 out of 5 stars; while Allmusic writer John Bush shared a similar sentiment and panned Gray's songwriting. However, The Boston Globe's James Reed commended its production and Jeremy Allen of NME gave the album a 7/10 rating. The first single from Gray's fifth studio album The Sellout, "Beauty in the World," is featured in the final sequence of the series finale, Hello Goodbye, of the ABC television series, Ugly Betty. "Beauty in the World" is also used as the theme in multiple videos created by Microsoft to promote Internet Explorer 9. Both singles released from the album ("Beauty in the World" and "Lately") are Top 10 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. On 16 February 2012 to participate in the Sanremo Festival as a guest, performing alongside Gigi D'Alessio and Loredana Berte with the song At least you in the universe, in the English version entitled Flame. Upon its release, The Sellout received generally mixed reviews from most music critics. Metacritic gave it an average score of 57, based on 15 reviews; Andy Gill of The Independent gave it 3 out of 5 stars; while Allmusic writer John Bush shared a similar sentiment and panned Gray's songwriting. However, The Boston Globe's James Reed commended its production and Jeremy Allen of NME gave the album a 7/10 rating. false 2024-02-07 22:42:06 6.7 2022 2022-12-16 2022-12-16 56 Blues Contemporary R&B Neo Soul Pop Pop Soul Soul 113013 2122075 0ae9784a-09e9-417d-aea2-b32b71858432 48772747-4cda-4ba8-b470-cfd5a32e05f7 8ac9f9dd-129f-4c19-9e45-a62502787836 /media/data/media7/Music/Macy Gray/The Sellout (2010)/folder.jpg Macy Gray AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/M/Macy Gray/folder.jpg Macy Gray Artist /config/metadata/People/M/Macy Gray/folder.jpg Macy Gray Macy Gray 1 03:57 2 02:56 3 04:36 4 03:50 5 03:49 6 04:37 7 03:56 8 03:32 9 02:27 10 04:02 11 03:19 12 04:04 13 03:02 14 03:46 15 03:44 Natalie Renée McIntyre (born September 6, 1967), known by her stage name Macy Gray, is an American R&B and soul singer and actress. She is known for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday. Gray has released ten studio albums, and received five Grammy Award nominations, winning one. She has appeared in a number of films, including Training Day, Spider-Man, Scary Movie 3, Lackawanna Blues, Idlewild, For Colored Girls, and The Paperboy. Gray is best known for her international hit single "I Try", taken from her multi-platinum debut album On How Life Is. Gray was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2014 in her hometown of Canton, Ohio.