Version of Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder (with a lower key?)

[Blackraven]

Consider this:

CD version/MTV version
YouTube - Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder: Closed Captioned
YouTube - Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

as against this: (performed during American Idol and Music Station Japan)
YouTube - American Idol - Maroon 5 - "Makes Me Wonder"
YouTube - Maroon 5 on Music Japan
YouTube - Maroon5@Japanese TV show

Strangely, I liked the latter one even more (as it doesn't seem to be high a note).

For any musicians here, is there a specific term that you call to this?

Also, is it possible to do this (changing to a lower note?) using Ableton Live 6?

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Thanks (any comments, insights and whatnot are welcome)

[helix eternal]

if I had to take a stab at answering, I'd say when they wrote the song, they wrote it in the lower key
but when their producer got a hold of it (for the album), he thought it'd sound better on a higher key signature

[The Chemist]

It may be easier to sing in a different key

Its easy to change keys in ableton live 6. Pitch is what you'd have to move.