Well, you see what's coming, probably. I love R Kelly's work, and I'll always give the benefit of the doubt to a new piece by someone whose previous work has deserved my respect, even if that means suspending my distate for Christianity for four minutes or so. And so "U Saved Me," whose rhymes are almost all inexact and clumsy, won me over, not just somewhat-with-reservations but completely. I think it was the verse about the guy who gets cancer that did it, but the cumulative effect was what's kept my regard for it increasing over repeated listenings. I can't decide whether it's extremely subtle or completely devoid of any subtlety whatsoever, which is the usual tension present in Kelly's best songs. The stakes are higher here, of course, and so the brazenness of a song like this makes the gambit seem that more more impressive when, by song's end, the skeptical ear has to concede that what it's heard sounds very authentically like a declaration of genuine faith.