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Originally Posted by Christopher
And I agree, the RAL "Mirror, Mirror" outtake IS better than the Street Angel version that we now have, mostly because it rocks more & of course Stevies on fire vocal performance. But it also sounds incomplete. The b-side released RAL track has no backing vocals at all. Also the ending trails off abruptly, one second Stevie's singing, "You must know" He says, "No, not really" and then it just hangs there, while the instrumental track goes on almost another minute. In my opinion the RAL released version of "Mirror, Mirror" was not fully fleshed out or completed. It could be that's as far as they took it before deciding to just shelve it.
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I actually like the fact that there aren't any backing vocals and it's just her. Maybe they thought it sounded best that way at the time? Her delivery of the lyric, "She says I think you walk a thin line!!! WALK A THIN liiiine..." is one of her greatest vocal "moments", in my opinion. Regardless of the lack of bgv's and the quick ending, I still consider it a "finished" song. I don't think Stevie could top this if she re-recorded it today.