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I have to disagree there - I don't really see a correlation. She'll sing about feelings & situations that are quite personal and have a really amazing sound (monochrome, BRILLANTE, Last angel) and she'll sing about things more directed at her audience than at herself that sound very dull and run-of-the-mill, like Thank U. Even her less personal songs will have a hugely personal component though, so it's hard to gauge really. It's just that alot of personal songs deal with topics she's already talked about so many times that it's gotten diluted over time. She recycles lyrics & concepts - not just making deliberate reference (which she often does, like any prolific lyricist would). So in her delivery, it's like she doesn't actually FEEL what she was feeling at the time anymore, so you can tell when a song's feelings are still fresh in her memory and when they're not. More "personal" songs recently, dealing with older feelings or being written when she's not feeling things so intensely, have therefore been very lethargic sounding.
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