Man, i’m a hit or miss Taylor listener (don’t lump me in as a fan, I dislike more than I enjoy) and even I gotta say the original version of Stay Stay Stay far and wide destroys the Taylor’s Version. Whoever mixed the new version really failed to understand how much that track made the song.
Regardless of who mixed is, I suspect Taylor calls the shots, so whoever mixed if that way did so because she wanted it that way. I don't get it, but there were a few other choices on TV of Red that differed slightly from the original that I didn't get either, but her music, her choice. Like my beefs with the Flower Kings remixes, I don't have to like it, but the artist can do what they want with their music.
That's interesting. It's Taylor's Version I've been listening to recently so I'll go back and check the original.
The below live version doesn't have the greatest quality (feels like bootleg quality), but you can hear the bass pretty well. The bass player is even featured prominently visually in the performance. And you can tell Taylor had an absolute blast singing this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHAX3ZcoxQ
Oh, that was fun! Great to see the bass player being featured so much. Looked like he was really enjoying himself, too.
The bass is definitely mixed a little louder in the original version. Not by a massive amount, though. I'd have liked it to have been boosted a bit more even in that version.
For sure, but I don't have any real complaints about the sound of her albums in general. Considering the last two decades have been the age of compression overload and the Loudness Wars, her albums usually sound quite good. Even her most overtly pop albums rarely sees the levels hitting the edges on the top or bottom (when looking at the levels on Audacity for example).