I love to watch you do it

[aruan]

So much for the technology cooperating. It seems that my copy of the Odyssey 9 remix of A.D.I.D.A.S. (the first remix posted on Riprock & Alex G's site) is in .mpeg format. Does anyone have a version of it that's an audio file of any sort? Their site really "" doesn't like this computer, and I've checked the Project. Much obliged. [ETA: Thank you, halimede!]

In other non-political A.D.I.D.A.S.-related news, I find the various edits/clips/versions we've been leaked absolutely fascinating. How cool is it that we essentially got to hear the song evolve in the creative process? I really liked the chorus of the original clip, which was higher and the beat faster. The different vocal mixes on the two alternate versions up on the aforementioned's site are so, so cool.

But the thing that caught my attention today was the background vocals of the ostensibly-finished-but-apparently-not-final-edit version of the song I found on Morpheus about a week before the CD was released. Listened to it closely this afternoon, and while the lead sounds the same, the background vocals, instead of being the monotonously chanty way they are on the official edit, do this really interesting mimic of the guitar that I like lots and lots. It's not loud, it's not forceful - it's almost lilting actually, like the song didn't start out an anthem but grew into it from humbler rock roots. Of course that's not its story, but listening to those vocals (and how much do I love that for all the bells and whistles JC loves so much, he never compromises on making sure the focus is on the vocals?), you can hear how it could be a different song, as surreal as that incarnation would be. I'd do a very lot of things to hear an unplugged version of it. Not as much as No Strings Attached, but it's a close call.

Comments

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Huh. A post about the musical merits of ADIDAS. How novel.

;)

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

*g* I've found a lot of validity in both the criticism and praise made against/for it in reviews. Personally, I was in love when the first strands of guitar played, but I can see the issues with repetitiveness, and the dance break really needs the performance element not to feel too drawn-out, etc. But at the end of the day, as the man himself would say, I love the song, but not for the same reason I love JC's other tracks. In this version, he sings the lines instead of yelling/chanting them, as he does for the rest of the song. Which is fine, it's a rock anthem, I get it, but JC's voice does things to me, very visceral things, and the incongruity of his singing the chorus is beautiful and intriguing and makes me yearn to give up all the production I love so much and stick him on a stage with a guitar in his hands to have at it.