I can't even wrap my head around disliking No Angel but praising Pretty Hurts (my ears).
The vocals of No Angel are sent straight from heaven and the lush synths in the production omfg. It's so perfect. And the lyrics are so much better than Pretty Hurts -- she sounds like a grown woman singing **** other grown women/adults in general that would get how imperfect relationships can be and work in the real world after you've been through seasons and phases with someone and you still have to figure out how to work through your **** because in spite of all of the realized imperfections you love them anyway and without conditions. Meanwhile Pretty Hurts sounds like something straight out of an after school special -- I just can't relate lyrically and the song overall just sounds so very bland -- literally nothing interesting about it in an album full of interesting mature and more complicated themes and topics, production and vocal deliveries. Ugh it's such a dud. I hate she picked that song even something like Part II/On The Run would have been such a better fit. I hate she gave it to Jay.
the vocals are some of her best
