I finally put the album in my ipod, and after listening to it on the road I think some songs are growing on me.
Clap your Hands and Can't Nobody are pretty catchy and if nothing else at least one gotta admit they got great energy. They definitely could've done with less voice alteration, but oh well. The english version of Can't Nobody is pretty cool.
I don't like Go Away and I'm Busy. The only nice parts for me are the Bommie choruses. The rest of both songs sounds boring and unnecessarily over-processed to me.
I love It Hurts!! This song shows why 2NE1 without special effects rules
I also love Love Is Ouch. It's pretty awesome and they use of autotune is well balanced.
In the end, the problem with this album for me is not that they used autotune per se. I have nothing against autotune, when it's used well. But in some songs they altered the voices to an extent where it sounds like freaking robots singing. I understand when it's used like that for artists that are horrible singers so they fix everything with autotune lol But we all know that's not the case with 2NE1.
Anyway, the album undeniably has an interesting style that no other girl group in Korea has, and the first MV out of the 3 is pretty awesome too. Their style is still beautiful and colorful and interesting and exciting and that's enough to keep me looking forward to what's yet to come with 2NE1's comeback!