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Originally posted by Ascension
Yes. Live. I swear Woo is the most interesting song I've heard from a pop girl since No Angel; I've been legit obsessed.
After a few days of listening, I'm more solid in my opinions on the songs.
1. Woo
2. Same Ol' Mistakes
3. Needed Me
4. Love On The Brain
5. Yeah, I Said It
6. Kiss It Better
7. Desperado
8. Work
9. James Joint
10. Consideration
11. Pose
12. Sex With Me
13. Never Ending
14. Close To You
15. Higher
16. Goodnight Gotham
1-10: I really, really love. It's rare for me to get so many songs on one album that I can say that about. 11-13: Really like them. 14: Close To You is just OK, listenable but a snooze.
Higher...sigh, I get what she was trying to do, but the vocals are painfully bad. It didn't click there the way LOTB did. Unlistenable for me. Goodnight Gotham ? What was the point? Those are the throw aways for me.
Really, really great album tho -- my fave since ST -- and bar none her best work to me.
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Respectfully, even though I agree about 98% with you (I am stunned by how good this album is,
how advanced and edgy), I have to put in a good word for Higher. You say "I get what she was
trying to do, but the vocals are painfully bad".
Sorry, I don't think you get what she is doing at all. Do you know how easy it would have been
to process or re-do that vocal to make it "good", technically? But a great blues/soul vocal wrings
its emotion out of little flaws, little note bends, usually at key moments here and there. What
Rih has done here is so amazing, I don't think I've ever heard it done before by anyone. She
sings virtually the entire song precisely in that blues/soul "flaw" range, which is like 100 times
harder than singing it perfectly. And 100 times more affecting.
She'd wreck her voice I think if she tried to do it this way live, except maybe an even shorter
medley version, but as a once-in-a-lifetime inspired studio moment, fcuk me!
EVERYTHING 
