WOW! WOW! WOW!
Love this version! Before reading your post, I released you stripped the song to its core. Very nice to read this was not initially your intention but ended up doing so. I suppose this is an artist at work. One can plan something, but along the way you get better ideas, the feeling it shall go a different direction. D*mn! I'm impressed by all of it, incl the video. This is a lot of work you put in, and though you mentioned you learned a lot which is more important to you than monetary compensation, you deserve a lot of solid upvotes.
WOW! WOW! Can't stop :)

Congratulation on winning and thanks for your kind comment. Indeed, I think it was on the 2nd day of working on it, I felt that I wasn't adding much by respecting the original material too much, it felt like an acoustic Karaoke. By stripping down the rhythm (and other things like some of the backing vocals and the high pitch lead), It allows the lyrics to really take another form. There were even a moment during the shooting of the music video, that I went full political and I puta a mask on, draw a red cross at the level of the mouth to have some sort of critique or statement, but it was over the top and steering away from the song itself, so we reverted back.
Sincerely, thanks to this song I really feel that my work ethic took another dimension, I cannot do less than that afterwards haha.
Much love @edje ^^
Your welcome 🙃 And thank you for this contribution and the passion and thoughts you put in to it! the political angle and all, nice! don't forget it, you can always make another version. the Talk Talk guys are not active for a few decades by now, so they dont mind {I guess} 🤣🤣