정국 (Jung Kook) ‘Seven (feat. Latto) – Visualizers – 210723

The man said “drown in remixes, peasants!”
Nightfall remix is it for me! 🔥

Lofi mix >>>

*FOUR* remixes? Nine versions of this song already, wow!

I’m digging the Island and Festival remixes, they match the energy of the song well IMO.

(BG: come from a family of musicians, been surrounded by all kinds of music all my life, cannot go a day without my earbuds and music, also learned piano for 6 years and in general have a fairly good ear for music and what works together, what doesn’t)

I’m not a fan of the LoFi and Nightfall remixes, at all. I really really wanted to like them, and I think they can be done much better, because the lyrics would go superbly with a slower, more lofi or sexy kind of vibe. BUT, they would have to re-record it with slower vocals, maybe leave out the rap part to compensate for song length with everything slowed down.

Right now LoFi just feels completely disconnected to me – the BG music is nice, slow, relaxing, takes me to dark lounges and sexy tall dark strange men (lol). But then the vocals in their OG speed burst through the door like a bullet train, crash through and leave a mess behind. This is what the LoFi version sounds and feels like for me. Slow down the vocals, though, and you get a superb sexy dim-lit lounge vibe that will (slowly) rock your socks off.

Nightfall is just a tiny bit better than LoFi, but when I listened to that, I got the feeling like the BG music constantly wanted to play faster than it should. It’s kind of like a nervous person trying to play a piece at a concert, where they keep picking up speed just to get it over with faster. There was a constant feeling of rush, even though nightfall for me should be the time to slow things down, calm down and not rush anymore. Add to that the vocals in the OG speed and the feeling of being rushed through the song got even worse.

Festival Mix is, for the lack of a better word, generic. Bland even, in some spots. Yes, it fits with the vocals’ speed and the of vibe of the song much better, and makes my head bop, but is very much forgettable, just another festival song in the midst of thousands that sound exactly the same. True, I’m not the biggest fan of generic festival music exactly because it’s so forgettable, but, well… to each their own, I say 🙂

And then we have the Island remix. In my opinion the best out of the bunch. Fits the vocals’ speed, has a funky background, again makes me bop along with it and just vibes well. I still think the OG versions (both clean and dirty) are my favourites, but out of these four I would say Island remix vibes the best and fits together overall fairly seamlessly.

Again, this is just my opinion, I am not trying to diminish anyone’s work here (especially the people who worked hard on the remixes), just pointing out things that didn’t sound the best to my ears. But also, what do I know, I’m not a recording artist or even an official singer 😅😅