Google Home never plays the right version of a song

[RichardA]

If I ask Google to play a song it ALWAYS plays remixes or live versions. Even if I ask for the original version I still get something weird. It has gotten worse more recently too. I know I can cast but that defeats the object of Google Home. I know I'm not the only person suffering with this but I haven't been able to find a solution. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

[notcasey]

aaand my issue has been closed without resolution. They are blaming Apple Music, despite this occurring with every music platform, and the fact that other (non-Siri) voice assistants handle don’t have this problem.

[KJC1]

Same problem for me, normally I end up giving up and getting it my phone to open Spotify and change it to the right song, an example I just had was asking for "What was I made for", 

Instead of Google giving me the obvious Billie eilish version with 500 million streams that I'm asking for I get given "What was I made for (originally performed by Billie Eilish) - Acoustic Guitar Karaoke by Sing2Guitar"

Pretty obvious that's not what I'm looking for and this happens all the time, Google really need to sort this, what's the point of a smart speaker that won't play anything you actually want it to

[jhaf]

The reason I switched from Amazon was that I heard Google’s assistant was more reliable. I’m not even a week into owning my devices, and Google will play instrumental versions of songs on Apple Music. This even happens when I specify the album/artist. Not to mention it’ll play censored versions of music randomly, even though I’ve updated the preferences to allow explicit music. Biggest waste of money. Wish I stuck with my Amazon devices. Which is sad, because it’s honestly not much better

[Neuxufbfidjrbru]

Given how long this issue has been open without any official response, at this point I think it's safe to say that Google gives precisely zero **bleep**s about this issue. Hopefully folks see this and other posts before purchasing one of these expensive paperweights and buy something else instead.

[buckrussell]

just for giggles i hooked up my alexa and use my google junk as just speakers. it's really sad that i'm "upgrading" to alexa lol. google, just buy chatGPT and make your assistant useful.