Same here.
I first heard Birthday on a small boombox, and all I could hear was the talk-singing. I was not impressed.
But after hearing it with good headphones, and discovering how the vocals fit in with the instrumentals, it's a whole different song.
Definitely so much going on.
I started enjoying the song when I stopped watching the MV, put headphones on and just focused on the music. There is so much going on in the upper registers. It wasn't until the 3rd or 4th listen that I noticed the bass was doing very little.
Given the buzz about Rhapsody In Blue, I'd like to share a tidbit regarding its composer. George Gershwin wrote the musical Porgy and Bess in 1935, and here are some interesting facts about it:
In three acts, Porgy and Bess tells the doomed love story of beggar who is disabled and an unmarried...
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