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As if to improve on imperfection, the 14-track Born This Way: The Remix (Streamline/Interscope) serves up remixes of nine of Born This Ways tired tunes, with a few songs appearing twice, as well as the BTW bonus cut “Black Jesus/Amen Fashion.” Some of the remixers do what remixers do best and that is to inflate and expand on the original versions. Such is the case with Foster The People’s remix of “The Edge of Glory,” the Guena LG Club Remix of “Scheiße,” Gregori Klosman’s remix of “Americano” and Twin Shadow’s remix of “Born This Way.” But the cracks really begin to show when the songs are slowed or stripped down. Those of us still waiting to see what Lady Gaga’s really made of probably have a long wait ahead.

Fox’s cash calf “Glee” hits a new low with the seventh installment of its “Glee: The Music” (Columbia) series of soundtracks. Uninspired performances combined with pointless song selection (“Hot For Teacher” and “Uptown Girl,” really?) earns this one an F. As covers of Coldplay’s “Fix You” go, the “Glee” rendition doesn’t hold a candle to the one performed by the senior citizens in the doc “Young @ Heart.” “Constant Craving” is too faithful to the original, although the duet on “Somewhere,” featuring Idina Menzel, isn’t too bad. But worst of all is the blatant (and uncredited rip-off) of Greg Laswell’s brilliant arrangement of the Cyndi Lauper hit “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” originally heard is Laswell’s version on the “Confessions of a Shopaholic” OST (search it on You Tube). If McKinley was a real high school (and it’s good that it’s not), someone would be expelled for plagiarism.