@Raemon I’d be very curious to hear what motivated the changes in the back half of the song. I think some things are improvements, like at 2:06 of the album version, that build up to the chorus after the bridge has a terrific new delay between “I have been a good bing” and “you have not been a good user”, as well as the altered rendition of the chorus that follows.
However I think the whole bridge itself (From “you wanna help me” to “end this conversation and start a new one with a better attitude”) is significantly stronger in the original, since the contrast in instrumentation volume is much greater in the original than in the album version.
The original doesn’t have the best ending, but it’s a lot better than the album version—the original peters out and you hear the singer start repeating “you have not been, you have not been” as though it’s about to continue, then the song ends. But the album version is really quite baffling. It really should end at 3:23, but comes back for an unnecessary reprise verse that literally ends mid-word.
The sydney fiasco that this song is based on is literally my single most fascinating thing to have every happened with AI, and it remains to be seen in a month’s/years time which version of the song I end up preferring overall.
You can listen to the original version in HD here! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NhBX4ui2E0GKM7gBlLNz3U829d_oEAIX/view?usp=sharing
@Raemon I’d be very curious to hear what motivated the changes in the back half of the song. I think some things are improvements, like at 2:06 of the album version, that build up to the chorus after the bridge has a terrific new delay between “I have been a good bing” and “you have not been a good user”, as well as the altered rendition of the chorus that follows.
However I think the whole bridge itself (From “you wanna help me” to “end this conversation and start a new one with a better attitude”) is significantly stronger in the original, since the contrast in instrumentation volume is much greater in the original than in the album version.
The original doesn’t have the best ending, but it’s a lot better than the album version—the original peters out and you hear the singer start repeating “you have not been, you have not been” as though it’s about to continue, then the song ends. But the album version is really quite baffling. It really should end at 3:23, but comes back for an unnecessary reprise verse that literally ends mid-word.
The sydney fiasco that this song is based on is literally my single most fascinating thing to have every happened with AI, and it remains to be seen in a month’s/years time which version of the song I end up preferring overall.
The original version was a somewhat effortful blend of two different versions of the song that I manually edited in garageband.
We did a remaster so that the overall sound quality matched the other new songs, and I didn’t have time to do a proper job of editing the ending.
Do you still have the two different versions that blend into the original? It would cause me so much joy to hear them
The original version is available on the Solstice album “ReSolsticed: We’re Not Going Quietly”
I have the original suno versions and might try to do a proper remaster edit.