Just listened to the Meg version.
it misses the insistent propulsion, the desire to move, the stress of need and desire, the motion of progression, the pull.
The force that drives, the forces, compulsion in one to simply GO, at any price.
The meg version misses this entirely. It is a very subtle sense of timing, in the the beat vs the rest of it all.
It is a key, maybe even ~THE~ key component of the driving power of Kate’s original. The drums and percussion, the subtle timing of the voicing, the instrumentation, all of it, is built into the push of it. At the same time some of it is designed, to calm, to relax, to open the mind and the mood. A purposely torn and stressed mix.
To find this all critical aspect of Kate’s original, you need to find a pitch/speed perfect orignal on youtube, at a high enough data rate, recorded by a smart (or lucky) yootoober. Youtoob is a total s**tshow when it comes to trying to find such.
Or, can the listener even understand and feel the the difference? Can they get it at all, does it mean anything to them, if they actually do ’get it’? What level does the listener live on/in?
eg, at the end of the original song is the relaxation, the relief of being in motion, a fulfillment of sorts...as opposed to unfulfilled unrelenting stressing and longing -of the body of the song. (combined with a existential search) Akin to the unstoppable desire for infinity and immortality, to live.. while feeling like one is being eviscerated. The song is a story, a ’life arc’ - if you will.
This complex mix is intentional and perfectly executed.. and is why Kate’s version will probably never be equaled.
