Or ...very slightly mic-ed and acoustic. = under produced and the CD is "better."

It's not you. It's all of us... together. Either perspective is a tiny, tiny minority of the whole which is 99.9% no opinion whatsoever. That's just the hard math of pop entertainment and why folks advertise.

On the bright side of pop... you get two (2) versions and the freedom to choose and opine... or not.