Guest
Rutger Gunnarssons Masterpiece of creating possibly the weirdest bass line for any pop song ever. Honestly, to me it sounds like we have a lot of one or more of the “just let me play along a few times“-takes in here, that ended up as final for having an unrepeatable magic. I can hear some little quirks and insecurities that a producer could spot instantly but hardly any listener ever hears, especially with the first chorus - but who knows, I may be totally wrong and every bit has been meticulously designed in the first place. I just find it very very unlikely, because if anyone had thought about something like this for having it it in a pop song beforehand, they probably had kind of simplified and straightlined it a lot. It really is kind of as otherworldly as Van Halen’s glued-together solo in Beat It. You just wouldn’t do this on purpose as a musician. But: Not one cover band, not one karaoke version, not one bass cover ever had it right. At best they are at maybe 40 to
