Friday, May 14, 2010

Auto-Tune

Auto-Tune is pitch-correcting software which can make poor singers sound better -- if it is used well. Otherwise, they just sound like robots. I remember sitting at a diner in Beachwood, New Jersey, hearing robo-Cher asking if I "believe in love, in love," and wondering what was up with her voice. Now I know.

Aside from making Cher... strange... er.... autotune has the magical ability of finding music where it really isn't. Or, finding music where it was all along. Like in the evening news:




Or in classic internet videos (credit to the same artists):

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