Fix what’s wrong, but don’t rewrite what the artist wrote. Stick to the official released version — album booklet, label site, verified lyric video, etc. If you’re guessing, pause and double-check.
Respect the structure
Songs have rhythm. Pages do too. Leave line breaks where they belong. Don’t smash things together or add extra empty space just for looks.
Punctuation counts (but vibe-editing doesn’t)
Correct typos? Yes. Re-punctuating a whole verse because it ‘looks better’? Probably not. Keep capitalization and punctuation close to the official source.
Don’t mix versions
If you’re editing the explicit version, keep it explicit. If it’s the clean version, keep it clean. No mashups.
Let the lyrics be lyrics
This isn’t the place for interpretations, memories, stories, or trivia — that’s what comments are for. Keep metadata, translations, and bracketed stage directions out unless they’re officially part of the song.
Edit lightly
If two lines are wrong… fix the two lines. No need to bulldoze the whole page. Think ‘surgical,’ not ‘remix.’
When in doubt, ask the crowd
Not sure what they’re singing in that fuzzy bridge? Drop a question in the comments and let the music nerds swarm. Someone always knows.
20 years later, they finally cover the song that inspired them to start the band.
I think the result is a lot better than we would have gotten from a Celebrate the Nun cover, or even an early Scooter cover, of the song. By this point, they're free to go off in a huge range of dance styles… which means they can get away with actually playing this one straight.
Unfortunately, live, they went way too far—no more pianos, trancy pad builds, etc., they just tried to reproduce the original sound for sound and note for note, and obviously Depeche Mode can do "let's sound exactly like Depeche Mode" a lot better than Scooter. But this album version strikes a bunch better mix of reverent without redundant.
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20 years later, they finally cover the song that inspired them to start the band.
I think the result is a lot better than we would have gotten from a Celebrate the Nun cover, or even an early Scooter cover, of the song. By this point, they're free to go off in a huge range of dance styles… which means they can get away with actually playing this one straight.
Unfortunately, live, they went way too far—no more pianos, trancy pad builds, etc., they just tried to reproduce the original sound for sound and note for note, and obviously Depeche Mode can do "let's sound exactly like Depeche Mode" a lot better than Scooter. But this album version strikes a bunch better mix of reverent without redundant.