Idk but having tried both now I think I land in the “old man yells at cloud” camp and just want to go back to mp3s on my college laptop. Or maybe I should hit up the vinyl thread
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Lorde summer
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I have become completely enamored with “Dollar Bill Bar” the second track in this video. Not because it’s overly great, although it has found its way deep into my brain, seemingly out of nowhere, on multiple occasions recently, but because of the ending.
Toward the end of the song, it breaks, she plays alone and sings
which is very beautiful, but obviously has a ton of sadness in it, too. It’s absolutely wonderful. But we’re here because in the Tiny Desk version, the first version I had ever heard, they come right into a nice little boppy ending after “you’re better off alone”, complete with synchronized dance. It ends the song on an upbeat note, despite a rather downer lyrical ending.
But in the studio version, it just ends after “you’re better off alone.” The first time I heard it and realized they weren’t coming back in, I let out an audible ohhhh maaaannn all alone in my car.
It’s absolutely fucking incredible to me how much different this song is with 30 seconds more, or less. And I can’t stop thinking about what made her decide to add the bop. Maybe she thought it was a downer and it was too much of a downer live, maybe she wrote it depressed and ain’t there anymore, maybe the bop just works (and it does!) but holy fucking lord I am obsessed with that ending right now.
Pop music should always be this good.
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New music Friday: I Don't Know How But They Found Me! - Album by Jensen McRae - Apple Music great album by a really good vocalist and some fun pop production on some tracks
Bloodless - Album by Samia - Apple Music hopefully a strong follow up to “Honey”
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