So the complaint about Autotune is that it makes bad singers marketable? I've been kind of baffled by the hatred of Autotune, because I hear the songs that are apparently Autotuned, and I can't hear the complaints. They don't sound fake or computer generated, just competently sung.
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2012 2:11:42 pm PDT #9427 of 10458
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§ ita § - Jul 13, 2012 2:17:38 pm PDT #9428 of 10458
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am generally bad at "hearing" things, but I can hear some of the autotune artifacts, and at least some people are overdoing it, because it's a weird metallic sensation in my ears. Drives me nuts.
Atropa - Jul 13, 2012 2:31:14 pm PDT #9429 of 10458
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I am generally bad at "hearing" things, but I can hear some of the autotune artifacts, and at least some people are overdoing it, because it's a weird metallic sensation in my ears. Drives me nuts.
Autotune, in the hands of someone VERY GOOD, can be made "invisible". But that's not the effect that a lot of singers/producers are using it for - they want that weird metallic sound.
Even when it's not overdone like that, it still can be pretty obvious. It's one of the reasons I was never able to get into the show Glee. The obvious autotune made me grind my teeth.
Zenkitty - Jul 13, 2012 2:33:37 pm PDT #9430 of 10458
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
But that's not the effect that a lot of singers/producers are using it for - they want that weird metallic sound.
Okay, maybe that's the reason I hate that music the kids are listening to these days. Because that sound makes my teeth grind.
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2012 2:39:16 pm PDT #9431 of 10458
brillig
Oh, that's AutoTune? yuck.
Hubby and I went to see Battleship today (such cheesy fun!) and at a crucial moment they were using AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" in a montage. It struck me how much 70's/80's power rock still gets used in action movies. Is the power rock genre too old school? These movies are aimed at the usual young male audience, I imagine, and I'm surprised that music that's probably older than most of the demographic is being used.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 13, 2012 2:39:51 pm PDT #9432 of 10458
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I can't really hear auto tune (except for in songs like I' on a boat) but my understadning s that they sutotune everyone of glee. But, there are people (Lea Michele, Jenna Ushkawitz) who have clearly been able to sing in other context. So that is confusing.
Zenkitty - Jul 13, 2012 2:42:37 pm PDT #9433 of 10458
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
It struck me how much 70's/80's power rock still gets used in action movies. Is the power rock genre too old school? These movies are aimed at the usual young male audience, I imagine, and I'm surprised that music that's probably older than most of the demographic is being used.
My niece Kim, the heavy metal rock goddess, thinks 70s/80s power rock is AWESOME. Metallica is the grandfather of everything she loves.
She's 29 now, but she's been "into" it for ten years.
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2012 3:20:03 pm PDT #9434 of 10458
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It just strikes me as odd that there doesn't seem to be a modern equivalent. Or maybe I'm not watching the movies were that shows up.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2012 3:27:08 pm PDT #9435 of 10458
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A modern equivalent to power rock? Isn't it power rock? With added rap options? There's a lot of headslamming music out there still--I'm not hip with the cool kids, but my fuck-yeah playlist grows by inches when I give up and Shazam the TV every now and again (though I have to admit *nothing* has been better than Fort Minor's Remember My Name in the past few years--DUDE).
le nubian - Jul 13, 2012 3:38:31 pm PDT #9436 of 10458
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, I actually couldn't take it when they autotuned Lea on Glee. I think they did it because otherwise her songs wouldn't sound the same as the others, but damn.
I think once you have autotuned pointed out to you (that isn't the metallic sound, but the Glee version) you can't un-hear it.