Yo Born-Diva! You're starting to get it. Vocal mics are like shoes. They either fit, or they don't. Cheap shoes that fit are better than expensive ones that don't. Expensive shoes that fit rock. Just pick a vocal mic, and somebody will love it. Somebody else will hate it. I have one client that uses the Baby Bottle, because it works for her. I put up a bunch of mics, and it simply won. Does that mean it will work for you? No. The same can be said of every other mic on Earth. I own a B.L.U.E. Kiwi. It's a $2000 or so main vocal mic. I used it for my vocals on about two thirds of the songs on my CD. Every female vocalist (there were 3) on that CD hated the Kiwi, and it hated them, too. It just likes me.
Mostly, the ladies wound up using Oktava MK319, a Russion mic I picked up for $90 at Guitar Center, AKG C2000B, which cost me $99 used, also at Guitar Center, and Rode NTK, a $500 Australian tube mic. Those were the shoes that fit them. The Baby Bottle has character, which means that it inserts its own color. Sometimes that works. Sarah Watkins from Nickel Creek uses it for a live mic, and switches back and forth between using it for a violin mic and a vocal mic.
I note that your profile gives no location. One thing that helps is to get into a studio with somebody that owns a bunch of mics and just sing into them. Then listen to the recordings blind, on monitors. If you're ever in the Boston area, feel free to look me up, I'd be happy to do that, up to the extent of my limited mic cabinet, which is fair, but not outstanding.
*No one* can tell you what is a great vocal mic for *you* at any given price point. It doesn't matter who you think you sound like, what gender you are, what material you do. Clips of things recorded with mics won't help, descriptions won't help, only singing into mics will help. Given that, a trip to a studio just to sing into some mics is an ear-opening experience. People will spend thousands on gear, but won't pay $100 or so to audition some mics. If you can find somebody on the board with a soft heart, a mic collection, and the time, buy them dinner and maybe they'll put a few mics in front of you. It will be worth more than all the advice you'll ever get.
If you can't do that, you have to gamble. How do you gamble? Buy mics that are well respected and used by lots of people. This increases the likelyhood that the mic will be good for recording *something* or *somebody*. If it doesn't turn out to be your go-to vocal mic, it may be your piano mic, your guitar mic, or something. And it will make it easier to sell it if it doesn't work out for you. Based on that, the Baby Bottle is not a bad choice. It's a respected mic in its price range, is used by lots of people, and it will be good for recording something or somebody. At the end of the day, though, there are more people who use it for an instrument mic than there are people who use it for a main vocal mic. Good luck in your search for the Holy Grail.-Richie