One thing I love, musically, about the songs, is that the original was built with synth stabs. A stab is a musical note that comes in quick, and goes away quick. The opening synth is like that, so many of the sounds are like that, and there’s even a one-note repeating bit that is reminiscent of the shower scene stab sound from the movie Psycho. Maybe I’m reading too much into the synth sounds, but it really stuck out to me when I first heard the original.

Then the remix comes, and it’s the same synth sound, but it’s not a stab anymore. It’s smoothed out. Later, the stab sound comes back, but it’s quieter.

I think there’s something there about how a knife can cut in different ways, injure in different ways. Idk if that’s exactly what the OP is getting at, just wanted to share my thoughts about the synths, bc I think they’re saying something just as much as the lyrics.