True Believer is probably the one that was screwed up the most. There is at least one thing per song (mostly) that he fucked up, spoiling some of the completely. He ALWAYS changes something for the worse when a track is released, unless it is an upcoming super hit (Wake Me Up, You Make Me, Hey Brother etc.) With Stories however it is a different Story. I'm not too good with Reddit formatting lol

Really nice production quality and lots of really catchy melodies that Avicii is always known for making.ĮDIT: Sorry I didn't mean for that to be bold. I really enjoyed the song! I was a big fan of True and this album lives up to it IMO. After all, it's about what the artist thinks sounds good and what their vision for the song is, not what everyone else wants to hear. I thought Chris's vocals sounded better, but maybe Avicii had a different vision for the song and thus chose someone else. So I hope that helped clear that up for you!Ģ) As far as the vocals go, I'm not sure why he changed vocalists. It's usually pretty boring and simple, but that's why most of the time there's a radio version of a lot of these songs so it doesn't have that intro/outro. I'll be happy to explain this for you! So in many Electronic Music songs (more specific, progressive house, which is what this song is more or less like) there is a lot of times where a 30-60 second instrumental intro is thrown in so that it makes the song easier to mix into sets when DJs are playing the song. And I'm not just a butthurt Chris Martin fan, anyone will tell you the live version sounds better.ġ) So for this question, you're upset about the house instrumental in the beginning. ANYTHING would've been better then 'I wasn't always the bravest, they say you only live once.' DID CHRIS MARTIN JUST WRITE YOLO INTO A SONG. The lyrics were average before but the new vocalist make them seem even worse. The great vocal effects are now removed and makes it sound so shit. He has also removed any vocals from it and now the piano plays the melody, so now it sounds like Chris is playing it on a kids keyboard. There has been removal of reverb on the sound for sure though). In the ending piano bit (3:10 for the live, and 4:26 for album) it seems Avicii has changed the ending piano sound to a shitty preset plugin instead of the obviously better one in the live version (I might be wrong with this, but it sounds worse. ( ) In this live version, Chris' voice is used instead and it sounds fantastic.Īt least Chris' voice is used for the chorus and that's the only good thing about it. Why is there a random house instrumental at the start of the song for no reason? Maybe purely just the lengthen the song.Ĭhris Martin's voice is either extremely altered or replaced with someone to sounds like they are trying to do an english accent. So I'm just gonna go through it bit by bit.

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