I think this was a brave album to make. Christina obviously wanted to spread out along some different musical directions - hence the number of collaborators that she brought in. Some people have accused her of just copying these people's styles, but if you listen this obviously isn't really true - for example Birds Of Prey doesn't really sound like a Ladytron track. Simply trying to imitate these artists would have been fairly pointless as even the most commercial of them has had only limited chart success. Christina was already an established star entering an area of music which hasn't had that many successful artists. I can understand why she might have wanted to add the ballads and rap style tracks as I think it was her aim to make a diverse album - but although that is great for us fans I think it does present a problem when it comes to marketing the album. Perhaps it would have been better to have made 2 EPs in a similar way to Robyn with her trio of Body Talk EPs.