{"id":751,"date":"2022-10-10T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:30:09","slug":"deconstructing-songs-take-a-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/10\/deconstructing-songs-take-a-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing Songs: Take a Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-audio fusion-audio-1\" style=\"--awb-progress-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-color:var(--awb-color1);--awb-background-color:#1d242d;--awb-max-width:100%;--awb-border-size:0;--awb-border-top-left-radius:0px;--awb-border-top-right-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-751-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Episode-046-Deconstructing-Songs-Take-a-Bow.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Episode-046-Deconstructing-Songs-Take-a-Bow.mp3\">https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Episode-046-Deconstructing-Songs-Take-a-Bow.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2>~ Or: My obsession for music sometimes gets really weird<\/h2>\n<p>Sometime in late November of 2021, my then brand-new voiceover friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roshellesimpsonvo.com\/\">Roshelle Simpson<\/a> had the idea that it would be fun to do a cover song of &#8220;Take a Bow&#8221; by Madonna, a song co-written by her and Babyface.<\/p>\n<p>I think what she had in mind was finding an instrumental or karaoke version of the song and singing over it.\u00a0 A logical choice all things considered, really.<\/p>\n<p>I had different ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Something I&#8217;d been wanting to do for a really long time was take a crack at deconstructing a popular piece of music by ear, figuring out all the parts, and re-recording my own version of it.\u00a0 When Roshelle suggested that song, it brought back all kinds of memories of when the song first came out.\u00a0 I realized in that moment that -that- was the song I wanted to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>I think she thought I was insane when I came back with that suggestion.\u00a0 She was correct.\u00a0 I&#8217;m straight-up bat-guano crazy.\u00a0 But I set my head out to figure out how to deconstruct and rebuild this massive smash hit.\u00a0 It scratches a punctilious itch in a seriously effective way that I didn&#8217;t even know existed.<\/p>\n<p>Did I succeed?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you the reader and listener be the judge of that.\u00a0 The actual video we made for our version of Take a Bow is later on in the post.<\/p>\n<p>The following entry is a summary of how I approached tackling this behemoth of a pop song, things I listened for, and many of the challenges I ran into.\u00a0 Some of my analyses may be incorrect!\u00a0 I wanted to find a multi-track version of the song to compare to and cannot so I&#8217;m going with my gut on this one.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how it all breaks down.\u00a0 Welcome to a peek under the hood!<\/p>\n<h2>History of the Song<\/h2>\n<p>Following some of the more controversial subject matters of a more explicit image in the early 90s, Madonna was on the hunt for a change of style.\u00a0 The idea of adding new-jack R&amp;B to her library was very appealing at the time.\u00a0 After exploring prospects with a few different producers, she decided on working with Kenneth &#8220;Babyface&#8221; Edmonds in appreciation of some of his work with other pop artists of that era.\u00a0 As well as his own material.\u00a0 When they got together, it turned out that he already had a beat and some music for a song but he wasn&#8217;t sure where it was going yet.\u00a0 That song became Take a Bow, which was a chart topping smash hit for both of them.<\/p>\n<h2>Instrument Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>This is the part where I&#8217;m going to go into some details of the instruments I was able to identify when listening and some of the guesses that I made to see how close I could get.\u00a0 Once again, it&#8217;s not going to be entirely perfect.\u00a0 I do have this strange \u00e6ffinity to 80s and 90s music due to being a byproduct of that era, so maybe I got close enough!\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see how this all played out.<\/p>\n<h3>Electric Piano<\/h3>\n<p>Doogie Howser!\u00a0 MacGyver!\u00a0 The Quintessential Sound of the 80s and 90s!\u00a0 And now: Take a Bow!<\/p>\n<p>I do loves me some electric piano.\u00a0 There&#8217;s just something so mellow about the way it sounds with just enough plingy round attack to tickle the back of the spine.\u00a0 In that good way.<\/p>\n<p>This instrument was not only super popular in music of the era, it is also the first readily identifiable instrument in the song in question.\u00a0 Right out of the gate before hearing anything else, in comes the electric piano.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind&#8217;s eye and childhood impression, Take a Bow was predominantly a vehicle for this instrument.\u00a0 I was surprised to find out that it certainly is in there but not nearly as prominent in the mix as I recall.\u00a0 Just goes to show what our brains focus on when listening to a song during one part of life while sounding completely different later.<\/p>\n<p>Ever had that sensation where when you revisit a song from an earlier part of life with a good driving beat, when you listen to it again it sounds like it <em>should<\/em> have been faster but is, in fact, not?\u00a0 That&#8217;s the kind of thing I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, that sounds like a good blog post for another week!<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY.<\/p>\n<p>Electric piano.\u00a0 This instrument is featured from start to just about the finish and provides a great sonic foundation for everything that is to come.\u00a0 It was also one of the easier instruments to pick out and either recreate or get close to.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - Electric Piano\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cMF3_dXX5Dc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Strings<\/h3>\n<p>Strings were much easier to pick out for the most part when compared to electric piano due to their presence.\u00a0 They were also one of the most difficult parts to execute on.<\/p>\n<p>The strings for the original version of Take a Bow were recorded by a live ensemble in the recording studio.\u00a0 Which sounds <em>fantastic<\/em>.\u00a0 It really sets the mood, borrows from some Asian influences, and creates the sense of melancholy that the lyrics absolutely beg for.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem here is that I don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> a string orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>So, East West Hollywood Orchestra to the rescue!<\/p>\n<p>Now, they may not necessarily be the best string library available.\u00a0 I picked this up on a sale about 6 years ago to score something completely different that I never got around to finishing.\u00a0 But I <em>have<\/em> it.\u00a0 And out of everything I have access to, this is the closest I could come up with.<\/p>\n<p>I definitely spent <em>hours <\/em>listening to the instrumental version of the song to try and pick out all of the subtle nuances between the ensemble instruments.\u00a0 Recreating the notes was only one half of the entire project though.\u00a0 The other side of it was trying to recapture the <em>feel<\/em> of the performers and the direction they must have received.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably the part where I fell the furthest from the original.\u00a0 And it is due to a lack of education on my part for the tools in question.\u00a0 Hollywood Strings has a significant amount of power under the hood and I was only scratching the surface.\u00a0 If more time was available, I probably could have continued obsessing about it and gotten far closer to the feel.\u00a0 As it stands, though, it worked enough to fit into the cover version of the song and accomplish the goal of &#8220;getting close.&#8221;\u00a0 Again, Google thinks it&#8217;s the original.\u00a0 Who am I to argue with Google?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a small section of the Take a Bow strings!<\/p>\n<p>(side note: I HAD to use the section where the strings did the run up.\u00a0 HAD to.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of my favorite parts of the song as far as a mood escalation goes)<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - Strings Section\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nzLUQ6W--2M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Bass<\/h3>\n<p>Like virtually every other pop song of the era, no piece of music &#8211; Take a Bow included &#8211; was complete without the benefit of a strong, solid foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one part where I deviated though.\u00a0 The bass in the original song was, to my ears, a synthesizer of some kind.\u00a0 I chose to just record live bass instead of sample hunting.\u00a0 Whether or not that was a good idea remains to be seen, however I felt like I was in much more control of the bottom end of the song that way.\u00a0 Not that I&#8217;m averse to the idea of synthetic bass.\u00a0 Please don&#8217;t get me wrong. There&#8217;s a time and a place for everything.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that as a bass player, the time and place for real basses is always Right Now.\u00a0 So I took the deviation gamble and recorded my version with an electric bass rather than using a synth patch.\u00a0 I think it turned out mostly ok!\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t quite have the same kind of consistency as a synth patch would have had but it just felt better.\u00a0 I&#8217;m weird that way.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of the bass from the Take a Bow cover:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - Bass\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UOwZKDxn9zM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Percussion<\/h3>\n<p>This was the bane of my life.\u00a0 More on that in a bit.<\/p>\n<p>This is separated into two parts.\u00a0 First is the general electronic drums, and then second is more percussion-based.<\/p>\n<p>The drum beat itself was pretty standard 4&#215;4.\u00a0 Slow groove, Kick on the 1 and the 2&amp;, snare-ish sound on the 2 and 4.\u00a0 By itself, though, there was definitely something missing.\u00a0 This consists of a kick sample, two different claps, a side stick, and a snap.\u00a0 Is that accurate to the original?\u00a0 Not sure!\u00a0 If any of ya&#8217;ll know how to ask Babyface, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the beat by itself without any percussion backing it up;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - E-Drums Only\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0pn6MyPePCE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The percussion for Take a Bow was a lot of fun to pick out!\u00a0 At least most of it when I <em>thought<\/em> I had it down.\u00a0 What you are going to hear here is the final version of it without the thing that I was missing for months.\u00a0 The bongo conga thing, shakers, tambourine, that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - Percussion Only\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bl0gMrzve_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So that&#8217;s how they sounded when separated out.\u00a0 So what about when combined together?\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to come back to that in a little bit in a challenges with beat section.\u00a0 Take a Bow might be a beautiful song but dang it had some complex stuff happening in the beat department!<\/p>\n<h3>Other hidden but necessary instruments<\/h3>\n<p>It sounded like there might be some acoustic guitar and electric guitar arpeggios from time to time and I had to kinda try to approximate what I thought I heard.\u00a0 I am not making any claims to accuracy on this one.\u00a0 Just took the gamble based on what I was hearing and hoped I got it right!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snippet of the acoustic guitar.\u00a0 Worth noting: rather than actually playing and recording it, I ended up using a brand new Steinberg acoustic guitar instrument that sounds DELICIOUS.\u00a0 I think you&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - Acoustic Guitar\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/coQecrOLbmE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And then some electric guitar on top of that.\u00a0 Not super distorted or anything &#8211; this isn&#8217;t a metal track.\u00a0 Yet with just enough spring reverb to feel bouncy amidst the otherwise more somber feel.\u00a0 The juxtaposition is fun to think about!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a snippet of that one too:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - Electric Guitar\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eYcZvPRKa3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Why bother including any of these samples in the first place?\u00a0 That goes to something I learned a bunch of years ago from a top mixing engineer by the name of Jack Joseph Puig.\u00a0 He demonstrated this with the multi-track version of the Bee Gee&#8217;s &#8220;Stayin&#8217; Alive&#8221; song.\u00a0 He played it back normally, then removed something and suddenly the song sounded naked.<\/p>\n<p>What did he remove?\u00a0 Acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. There&#8217;s a super delicious acoustic guitar track in that song that isn&#8217;t <em>exactly<\/em> noticeable unless you&#8217;re really listening for it.\u00a0 But its absence is deafening.<\/p>\n<p>When listening back to the mix without these two elements, it&#8217;s just Not. The. Same.\u00a0 Take a Bow suffers the same fate without those instruments.\u00a0 So on that front, I knew that I had something there.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t sure it was correct, but it definitely filled a gap.<\/p>\n<h3>Very brief polysynth drone<\/h3>\n<p>No, nothing to do with flying spy devices.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know if this was actually in there or not but I heard <em>something<\/em> and this was about as close as I could get to recreating it.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a synth of some kind near the very beginning and the very end but I couldn&#8217;t pick them out well enough to try to do anything with.\u00a0 Regrets, I haz them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick clip of that very tasty synth though:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - Polymode Synth\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZTnVgR7et3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Challenges With the Beat<\/h2>\n<p>The drum beat for this song destroyed me.\u00a0 For months.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not gonna lie.\u00a0 I&#8217;d pick it up, try again, put it down frustrated, leave it alone for a while, rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>I was so completely stumped that I actually <em>called Babyface&#8217;s management team<\/em> to find out if there was ANY WAY to pass a question to him while on tour.\u00a0 Which there was no answer to but that&#8217;s ok.\u00a0 I still can&#8217;t believe I actually did that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate answer was a forehead slapping moment and I feel foolish for having missed it the first time around.<\/p>\n<p>Beats 2 and 4 were consistently the same sound throughout almost the entire song.\u00a0 Kind of a side stick, clap, clack, <em>something<\/em> sound.\u00a0 Except every time I tried to create that sound, it came out sounding empty.\u00a0 Completely devoid of all fullness.\u00a0 It was like &#8230; waifish.\u00a0 Puny.\u00a0 Diet beat.\u00a0 I wanted <strong>full-fat<\/strong> beat.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until MONTHS later that it finally hit and I only noticed it when listening back to the original on headphones and listening carefully.\u00a0 I had been missing something critical to the sound.<\/p>\n<p>The bongos and congas were pretty easy to pick out in almost every part of the patterns.\u00a0 What I missed for months was that the pattern started at the very beginning of each measure, not just later.\u00a0 The absence of that thick hand-percussion sound was the thing that was causing the foundation to drop out from under the beat completely.<\/p>\n<p>Was adding it back in the magic bullet that I was looking for?\u00a0 Mostly!\u00a0 I still feel like it&#8217;s lacking <em>something<\/em> and I realize that I can spend another 6 months hunting for it.\u00a0 Instead, it&#8217;s &#8220;good enough for release&#8221; and here we are today!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the combined reconstructed beat for your listening pleasure:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song - Combined Beats\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g50G0Udkx4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 I did mix the bongos too loud in the final mix.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t decide if it was an error or because I just couldn&#8217;t believe how silly I was in not being able to hear it for so long that I needed that reminder to pay more attention in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>The Final Product<\/h2>\n<p>So then it was all done!\u00a0 The music complete. Mixed down, exported, ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>Then an accompanying video where we took some selfies in those cute hats with the veil and accompanying gloves &#8211; yes, me too &#8211; and made a mockup old-time movie slideshow out of it!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we had an incredible amount of fun with pretty much every aspect of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Take a Bow completely assembled!\u00a0 FINALLY!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Take a Bow - Cover Song\" width=\"1652\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/coNEY8XBH4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>The Curtain&#8217;s Down<\/h2>\n<p>So ultimately, what did I accomplish with the recreation of this song?<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, it was a challenge I set out for myself.\u00a0 I wanted to see if\u00a0 could do it.\u00a0 Was I hoping to re-create it as accurately as possible with the tools available to me?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 Did I successfully do so with the level of accuracy that I had hoped for?\u00a0 Not exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Even if my phone hears this version come on and it recognizes it as the original &#8211; which is funny and kinda endearing in a way &#8211; it&#8217;s still just &#8216;close&#8217; and not <em>quite<\/em> the level of accuracy I&#8217;d hoped to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I wanted to do something fun that featured the incredible singing voice of my new friend.\u00a0 On <em>that<\/em> front, I feel like I succeeded.\u00a0 So at the very least I can feel pretty good about that goal.<\/p>\n<p>So if I took this project on knowing then what I know now, what would I do differently?<\/p>\n<p>I would likely take more careful notes of every sound I hear.\u00a0 Actually document specific things and combine note-taking with what my ear picks out. You know, like with a pen and paper and stuff, instead of immediately trying to track what I think I hear.\u00a0 Slowing down is the order of business there.<\/p>\n<p>I would definitely alternate between headphones and speakers when doing this documentation process; some things are much easier to hear in speakers, some much easier in headphones.\u00a0 Different volumes at both of those mediums would be much more useful as well.\u00a0 When I finally heard the percussion I was missing, it was at a different volume than my normal listening volume.\u00a0 That made a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p>Finally: would I do this again?<\/p>\n<p><em>DEFINITELY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I already know which song is next and I can&#8217;t <em>wait<\/em> to dive into it.<\/p>\n<p>And learn new lessons in the process!\u00a0 Hopefully ya&#8217;ll will enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoy recreating it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for going on that journey with me!\u00a0 I&#8217;d take a bow myself but I&#8217;m already sitting and that would get awkward&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Until next week.<\/p>\n<p>-= george =-<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-engineering","category-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deconstructing Songs: Take a Bow - George Nowik - Voice Actor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ever wondered what goes into the nuts and bolts of a pop smash hit? 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