Starra wrote:Not feeling the new LOVE Machine at all. It lacks the fun that the original version had. I mean, it's not awful, but eh.
BANNED!!! No seriously, I agree 100% with your entire post. LM isn't doing it for me. In general I feel that these remakes have had a kind of milquetoast quality, like, yeah, let me throw some loopz on top of this old song to make it sound modern, but I'm not gonna really get in there and transform it on a fundamental level. So the new stuff winds up being a kind of a noisy but thin veneer on the old melodies. Like "hip" Disney Channel cover versions. Well, "I Wish" sounds lovely because of the girls' voices and it does carry a different feel than the old song, but, even so, the end result is a bit sleepy.
But The Peace, that is what an update should be. It's more than just interjecting new beats on top of the existing melody, it's like a real rethinking of the song for this decade, and rivals the best H!P fan remixes that I've heard. It doesn't even feel like a remake. It just sounds like a well-crafted track.