In reply to Hmmm....

I kinda feel like she kept the title just to be able to have receipts that she did in fact get 'JoyRide' a release date. It's clearly a completely different album than the first incarnation, which in keeping with the title was likely a lot more upbeat and fun. Ride Of Your Life and Spacetime clearly belonged on it. As you mentioned the culmination of the album's downbeat tone is far removed from a heady, joyous narrative as you could imagine. She would've done better to retitle the album 'PainRide' or something that better reflects the final collection of tracks on it. JoyRide was doomed to fail the moment she announced it, the studio clearly got in her head and made her doubt herself. I can't believe the final album is how she genuinely perceived the end result to be.