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Originally Posted by truehappiness
I honestly think you aren't really looking at MY STORY with an unbiased eye.
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I will admit that although I was still blown away overall when MY STORY came out, I did feel the latter half of the album somewhat blended together and dragged. However, looking back and in my current mindset, I love MY STORY even more now because of exactly what I said. Not every track had to be full of attitude, as long as it's good at what it's trying to do. I feel more so now than ever, especially by comparison, that the songs on that album are perfect as is. As I mentioned, my biggest gripe are tracks that attempt to be epic but fail. All I see there is potential for what could have been, or a missed opportunity. Another point is that MY STORYs arrangements were so very lush. I mean, there were a multitude of layers to her music then - so many that I still am beginning to notice the subtleties. Even if back then I had felt "this track isn't a highlight of the album to say the least" I tend to love those tracks now because even the dull tracks during that time period are unbelievably more entertaining than the non-album highlights of today, as well as many of the so called "album highlights" or promotional tracks.
I definitely have days where all I am in the mood for are tracks like HAPPY ENDING, HOPE or PAIN, Replace, and winding road.
Waterballoon sums it up well. It's as if each track was carefully crafted back then, and now it's not quite like that.