i feel like i reach a new level of "understanding" when i listen to every part of a track.. my first "dissected" track i "researched" was Judas, and to this day every part of that track amazes me. then it was Bad Romance. now i'm re-discovering Alejandro & its layers and this feels exactly like the first time i heard it, thank you for bringing that feeling back. it has been over 10 years since.
my first deconstructed song I believe was god is a woman and I tend to look for the deconstructed version of songs when I hear parts throughout the song that my friends don't hear and so I try to prove myself Im not hearing things =))
I know this is an older comment, but I’ve been on a mission to roll my Rs lately(I’m half Mex) & it seems like when u are learning, u tend to hear rolled Rs in a lot of things,& in this song I noticed the same thing! She does it perfectly, but I bet she practiced of course.
I enjoyed this (maybe) *too much* - I got a little lost in a certain headspace - THANK YOU for this upload! [Would love to see “ARTPOP” deconstructed sometime!]
@@queenvqueen this kind of separation, you can't do it using the final mix of the song! In this case, it is a leak from the final mix of the separate tracks from the song!
I could tell they used a little autotune/melodyne to keep to the vocals on tune with the notes. They just put a bit of delay and compressor to it. I wish to hear the raw vocals before the presets.
Probably auto tune! Because in Melodyne you get a natural effect, without sounding robotic! Gaga's vocals in Chromatica, were all tuned with Melodyne, for example!
Sounds like detuned sawtooth waves layered with some harsh FM synthesis, and pitch modulated in places. With little/no decay or full sustain and no release on the amplitude envelope. The second bassline sound around 10min in is a pretty standard analog-style timbre passed through a lowpass filter with high-resonance and low frequency cutoff, but then heavily modulated by a snappy envelope with short decay and moderate sustain. :)
