My tracklist for Artpop is this:
However, I'd rank them as:
MANiCURE is the only one where I can listen to either, but they both have traits that I wish she pulled from the live and put in the album and vice versa. Like how she sings "touch me - in the dark," in the live version she phrases it like "tew-wutch me - in the dark." I love the chorus changes in the album version but hate that weird pause she takes before "You're the -- the medicine" but love the "I need to heal the way, the way, the way you make me feel." But she sings "feel" with a C#5 and it would have sounded better as an F#5 (At least, I think that's the note I hear in my head).
Sexxx Dreams had only a few improvements on the album version, but it had too much going on with a ridiculous bridge. The iTunes Festival version had the superior bridge, only you could barely understand what she was saying.
Aura has a killer chorus but those verses are just lyrical vomit.
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In other news, listening to the FFXIII soundtrack, and
The Gapra Whitewood is giving me such Grimes teas.
tbh, I don't think that Lotus was THAT bad and that sometimes is shitted because it was coming after Bionic.
I like "Your Body" and "Army of Me" and I still think that Xtina still has the powah to create at least good singles.
Lotus was such a lazy output with a ton of tracks being little changed from the original version. It was as if Christina said fuck it during the conception of the album and let her record company choose tracks and she just sang them exactly like the demos. That said, I use Let There Be Love and Army of Me is occasionally cute. I liked Just A Fool initially but never really went back to it.
