Music Appreciation
Related: About this forumCan we talk "autotune"? I HATE IT... You?
Last edited Tue Mar 26, 2019, 07:53 PM - Edit history (1)
Mandatory qualifiers. I realize I don't have the technical knowledge to know if there are different forms of autotune and thus maybe I am just viscerally responding to a certain type. Or, perhaps it is similar technology used in very overwhelming versus subtle ways...
I remember when Cher first used a form on "Believe" and I "liked" that (sort of, given I'd never heard the effect before and of course it was Cher), though this kind of techno dance music isn't really my fav by any means.
But since then it seems like all music is using some form of this and I am about to break furniture racing for the remote to mute it.
This current commercial in near constant play prompted me to comment (and it is SURELY not the worst form)
https://ispot.tv/a/IW52
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)rampartc
(5,439 posts)make models sound like singers?
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Even if its just to tweak the vocal here and there. I think it has made singers a little lazy. I do hate the way its used as an effect though. Its very annoying.
LiberalArkie
(15,730 posts)hlthe2b
(102,408 posts)KT2000
(20,590 posts)and nowhere else.
Hate auto-tune. One of the reasons I like Hozier so much is that is voice is the same live as on his recordings.
consider_this
(2,203 posts)at least the things that sound like in the Cher 'Believe' where it sounds, for lack of a better description, like someone is gargling. Just UGH!
Maybe it is a tech thing to make things sound ok, in which case I would expect if that is the case it should be unnoticeable when used correctly, but deliberate auto-gargly is not for my ears, thank you.
Tikki
(14,560 posts)Its Yucky sound and music and most of the lyrics, too.
Tikki
consider_this
(2,203 posts)the only time i got a chuckle from autotune
happybird
(4,637 posts)They made some great videos. Now I gotta go look to see if they are still around- can't even begin to imagine what they could do with Dump, Guiliani, and that whole clown car of craziness, lol!
NRaleighLiberal
(60,024 posts)dhill926
(16,370 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)I don't like it most times. And we don't even know when its being used most of the time I gather. Its used to create pop stars out of good looking young people. All you have to do now is get it close, and the machinery does the rest.
But in this instance it is used more as a catchy effect. Its not being hidden. Also, when this came out it was kind of a new fun toy that musicians were experimenting with.
Tikki
(14,560 posts)and my first thought was...just how lazy can this singer be!!
Tikki