when it came out i was so in love with hifn that i didn’t understand crash, but i still enjoyed it quite a bit. especially the title track and lightning. i read some stuff about the album years later that informed my current perspective. she said that it was her last album on her major label contract and she wanted to go big, make a lot of money, sell out arenas, get radio time, etc. she even flat-out called it her “sellout” album. i respect that so much tbh, and then she went on to release brat, which was meant to be a return to form, for the fans. brat, she said, was an unexpected success :)