I actually prefer the original....
why couldnt they just mix the original better and just send it to radios and replace the spotify and itunes version with it?
Why does the chorus sound so strange? The weird, underwater echo is kinda annoying. The original version is fine, all they had to do is fix the loudness in the chorus.
I love the production in the verses, it's so much nicer... but I can't at them completely ignoring the problem in the chorus. It's way too busy and noisy, and not in a good way like Starships/Pound The Alarm. It sounds distorted and almost low quality. If anything, the changes to the verses accentuate the errors in the chorus mixing. I really don't understand why they didn't fix it, they've literally had a year since the song's original release to revisit the original file and correctly mix it, or reproduce it altogether.