I'd be greatful if someone let me know what is the difference between the production of the original song and the remix besides the talk part that was substiued for the Riff Raff rap.
From the stuff that I can remember from the top of my head, they added synths to to the song that were present only by the end of the album version. And there's this little stop on "this is no. big. deal!".
And as Goldsoundz pointed, they mixed the vocals properly. On the album version, the background vocals and harmonies were not as clear as the ones on the remix
I wish I had the opportunity to attend the meeting when they decided "Yes, TIHWD is a great KP single choice, let's release it, it will smash and even if not it has a great quality"
She needs to do some radio interviews in New York and Los Angeles to promote the song + increasing its airplay or sending some taccos to the radio stations
They took the ping-pong reverb (echo) off the verse vocals. They added the pad to the first verse and bumped it up in the second (a pad is a soft sounding synth). They turned down all the ratchet, turnt up, pogo stick effects. They varied the drum pattern. You can hear little trap claps at the end of the second chorus. They turned down the saw synth on top of the guitar in the chorus. The put a bass drop before the second chorus, and they sequenced the entire high keyboard harmony to the end instead of just having it in the original bridge and for a few bars before the "Going to bed with a 10 and waking up with a 2."
i'm sorry buddy, and even tho I hear those changes you've sited, the Riff Raff mix totally sucks. It's been a complete waste of money, has it not? I understand the politics behind iTunes promotion, but all that money should've honestly gone towards that in whatever capacity. Like maybe instead of the original and the remix being in the Pop section, put ALL that money towards the original being in a poor slot in the main section. Or maybe just saving it all and doing a discount, cuz I don't feel either slot in the Pop section did anything.
Uncle and Birthday should never have been singles. I'm not saying that because they didn't reach #1, I just knew that they weren't singles from the first listen. The first half of PRISM was my favourite and those two were at the bottom of the list (of the first half). Even Roar isn't the strongest song but it was a good lead and it did what it needed to do. Era should have gone Roar, Dark Horse, This Is How We Do, Legendary Lovers, International Smile, This Moment. But that's just me.
