Just finished A Public Affair and now I know why I never bothered with it before. It's so busy veering between being incredibly basic and incredibly terrible that it never realizes it sounds straight of 2002. No wonder it was such a flop.
That said, there were a couple of songs on there I'll be rooting for. "A Public Affair" was way more of a bop than I remembered. And "I Don't Want to Care" and "Let Him Fly" both tugged at my pop-loving heartstrings.