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For the first time in my life, this year I have been listening to a lot of music with autotune all over the vocals (K-pop). Now when I listen to songs with non
by parenthesis 5y ago
For the first time in my life, this year I have been listening to a lot of music with autotune all over the vocals (K-pop).
Now when I listen to songs with non-autotuned vocals, even very small pitch variations really jump out for me in a really wonderful way. What's interesting is (assuming it's music I like) I have that wonderful reaction regardless of whether the singer is using pitch variations in a very precise expressive way, or whether, to the contrary, they just don't have good control of pitch.
But I do really enjoy both. There's a Rick Beato video where he complains about the harmony vocals in Lenny Kravitz' Fly Away being autotuned - but I love that sound, it's great!
The precise bluesy inflections in Labelle's Lady Marmalade, versus the autotuned perfection of Shinee's Lucifer (a song which reminds me of the former), versus the wonderfully out-of-tune vocal performance on Motley Crue's Live Wire --- it's all great.
I would just worry about future singers growing up only listening to and copying and internalising the sound of autotuned vocals. But is that going to be the case, with such easy access to music from all eras?