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According to the liner notes
on her website,
Better was recorded live. Well, of course it was. I mean,
what's the alternative? But no, it doesn't simply mean she and the
musicians were there, and breathing, at the time the recording was
made. It's a promise that what we're hearing is just what they
recorded. Kind of like those "filmed in front of a studio audience"
sitcoms, but with less of a safety net. And no laugh track to tell us
how we're supposed to feel.
Which gives the performances on Better a little more
immediacy, a lack of filtration. Could've been a disaster. Heck, we
only have her word that it wasn't, that what we're getting really is
the original, unadulterated performance. I'm just cynical to
acknowledge the possibility I'm being flimflammed, even as I don't
believe it for a second. Besides, with country-tinged pop this sweet,
does it really matter? (Only to the degree it lets me use a word like
"flimflammed". That was worth the whole digression.)
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