Editing Version 2.0 (section)

==Composition and style==
Building on framework sound and style Garbage established on [[Garbage (album)|their debut set]], ''Version 2.0'' featured musical references to the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, songs featuring [[String instrument|live strings]], over 100 recorded [[Sound recording and reproduction|tracks]], and an [[Interpolation (popular music)|interpolation]] of the [[Beach Boys]] and [[The Pretenders]].<ref>"''Version 2.0'' press release".</ref> The band said that the goal of ''Version 2.0'' was to create a "rapprochement between the high-tech and low-down, the now sound and of golden memories."<ref name="CyberSpin">{{cite magazine |last=Bambarger |first=Bradley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQ0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA93 |title=Almo/Mushroom's Garbage Puts Cyber Spin On Classic Pop Spirit |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |volume=110 |issue=17 |date=April 25, 1998 |page=93 |issn=0006-2510 |access-date=June 26, 2017 |via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Butch Vig]] stated that the band did not want to reinvent their sound, as they "felt that we had carved our own turf on the first record and we wanted to take everything we did and make it better".<ref name="dirty">{{cite web |last=Freydkin |first=Donna |url=http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9810/26/garbage/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030312001137/http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9810/26/garbage/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 12, 2003 |title=Getting dirty with Garbage |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=October 26, 1998 |access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref> This meant to "have the guitars noisier and write poppier melodies", showing how the band had grown together: "With ''Garbage'', we were struggling to find an identity and to get comfortable with Shirley – and vice versa. After touring so much, there's a better camaraderie and sense of communication."<ref name="kerrang">{{cite magazine |last=Rees |first=Paul |title=The Manson Family |magazine=[[Kerrang!]] |date=April 18, 1998 |issn=0262-6624}}</ref>

[[Shirley Manson]] declared that "we didn't want to totally embrace the world of [[electronica]]", so ''Version 2.0'' juxtaposed "the super-hi-fi with the super-organic".<ref name="CyberSpin"/> The band wanted there to be echoes of music they like in the record, "and that means not just [[Björk]] and [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] and [[Radiohead]] but [[the Beatles]] and Beach Boys and [[Frank Sinatra]]", Manson said, concluding that the album is overall "more diverse—it goes to extremes."<ref name="CyberSpin"/> The increased usage of techno beats emerged from frequent exposure to electronic music during the [[Garbage tour]], both in clubs and listening to [[The Prodigy]] and [[The Chemical Brothers]].<ref name="kerrang"/> [[Steve Marker]] stated that the band used as a reference point the ''Garbage'' song "As Heaven Is Wide", "but with a more technoey {{sic}} and dance end."<ref name="mtv">{{cite web |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2996/new-garbage-cd-version-20-set-for-spring/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151129174514/http://www.mtv.com/news/2996/new-garbage-cd-version-20-set-for-spring/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 29, 2015 |title=New Garbage CD, ''Version 2.0'', Set For Spring |publisher=MTV News |date=February 4, 1998 |access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref> The band also aimed to channel some of the energy of their live shows into the rhythm parts of the album. Vig remarked that "the songs sound looser, tougher" that way,<ref name="CyberSpin"/> as by the last concerts, "we'd speeded things up and toughened up a lot of the grooves" and in the album "we wanted that to be apparent from the get-go."<ref name="kerrang"/>

While ''Garbage'' had lyrical input from all band members, Manson was responsible for all the lyrics in ''Version 2.0''.<ref name="kerrang"/> Consequently, it was described by Manson as "more direct and more personal than the first. I was able to verbalize things a little clearer this time—I mean, I'm no [[Nick Cave]], I'm never gonna be [[Bob Dylan]]. I do what I can to express myself."<ref name="face">{{cite magazine |last=McLean |first=Craig |title=Ginger Spice |magazine=[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]] |date=February 1998 |issn=0263-1210}}</ref> The singer "tried to let the darker undercurrents come through to offset some of the pop melodies", adding that "like human beings, songs shouldn't be one-dimensional".<ref name="CyberSpin"/> The singer declared that the introspective nature of ''Version 2.0'' served to "reassure myself while I'm going crazy" due to her experiences during production, as she was "living by myself in a hotel, and I had no one to really talk to" and every day coming back by herself really late after working on the studio.<ref name="CMJ">{{cite magazine |last=Pecorelli |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aSoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33 |title=Garbage system upgrade |magazine=[[CMJ New Music Monthly]] |issue=58 |date=June 1998 |pages=32–35; 55 |issn=1074-6978 |access-date=February 15, 2015 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Manson added that only "[[The Trick Is to Keep Breathing]]" had something that was out of her life, being inspired by her friend Ruthie Trouble.<ref name="face"/> "Medication" came about from a frightful, isolating experience with the US medical system.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MA-uT7kqvc  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/7MA-uT7kqvc| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Shirley Manson interview (Australia, 1998) |publisher=[[YouTube]] |access-date=February 10, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The song, Manson explained, is "a reflection on past ills in a way ... about taking blame on yourself for things that you had no control of at the time, and finally pushing off and realizing that this was not my fault. It wasn't all my fault. There's a huge relief and release that comes from that".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Woolridge |first=Simon |url=http://www.garbage.com/press/articles/199806/juice/index.html |title=Trash Therapy |magazine=Juice |location=Australia |date=June 1998 |issn=1320-9981 |access-date=February 10, 2015 |via=Garbage.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011007180104/http://www.garbage.com/press/articles/199806/juice/index.html |archive-date=October 7, 2001}}</ref>