Is it my system or does this song have distorted bass?

[Davide]

I have a system that has just been set up and I don't have many references to understand if certain distortions at low frequencies are in the song or in my system.
How do the bass of this track sound, for example, on your system?
I listen to it from Spotify and Amazon Music, not YouTube, which I think modify the sound a bit.
I notice a slight distortion when the bass kicks.
Yet in other bass heavy tracks I don't notice anything... and neither with frequency sweep.

 

[Shiva]

listening through my Sennheiser HD580’s, I hear distortion in the bass line and turned the vid off. I say, your ears are good.

 

[NTK]

This is how the audio in the YT vid looks like. The problem is with the source.

 

[Shiva]

A better bass line perhaps. The Maria’s -Hush.

 

[Killingbeans]

How do the bass of this track sound, for example, on your system?

Like a cheap car stereo being tortured. So yeah, it's an "artistic choice".

 

[Axo1989]

That's why they call it dirty bass. I remember my baby sister having a laugh at me along those lines when I asked about distorted bass in an MIA track years back.

Which makes a good palate cleanser after the somewhat cloying title track here (obvs shouldn't do The Weeknd on a Monday). This one's on the clean side:

Btw haven't watched The Idol yet but planning to, has anyone?

 

[Davide]

Glad to hear it's not my rig!

 

[dasdoing]

That's why they call it dirty bass

two years after Axo MJ had already terrible distorsion in bass

bass was probably reamped?

 

[Killingbeans]

two years after Axo MJ had already terrible distorsion in bass

I blame the absense of Quincy Jones.

 

[dasdoing]

I blame the absense of Quincy Jones.

Off course, Quincy would have never acepted that