{"id":20373,"date":"2020-05-18T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2020-05-18T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:27:24","slug":"why-some-remastered-music-videos-look-awful-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/why-some-remastered-music-videos-look-awful-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Some &#8220;Remastered&#8221; Music Videos Look Awful (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; user-select: auto;\">Last year YouTube allowed some major labels to remaster their older music videos (while keeping the same video IDs and views), to make them look good in 2020.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Some music videos from the likes of Wham! and Freddie Mercury look fantastic in 4K. Others look worse than they used to, why? 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Here&#8217;s links to the music videos listed: Wham! &#8211; Last Christmas Freddie Mercury &#8211; Living On My Own Queen &#8211; Bohemian Rhapsody Smash Mouth &#8211; All Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8614],"tags":[14550,6383,14552,8868,2006,14554,18,5813,2648,14553,14551,3815,14559,14560,179,614,14549,14545,8198,14548,14556,6271,13807,14555,8867,12811,6033,14558,14546,69,7958,70],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Some &quot;Remastered&quot; Music Videos Look Awful (Video) - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/why-some-remastered-music-videos-look-awful-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Some &quot;Remastered&quot; Music Videos Look Awful (Video) - RouteNote Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last year YouTube allowed some major labels to remaster their older music videos (while keeping the same video IDs and views), to make them look good in 2020. 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