Not really sure how that would work, but I love the sound of it!
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Have you noticed with a lot of the modern music that...?
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UncleBingo
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I think it would be MF'ers MF'ing the current definition to re-appropriate it to a MF'ing political end or to suit their own MF'ing purposes.
Quadman2
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Sorry no titles. Don't really buy into this genre, so memory of such.
It's the type wherein a lot of the lyrics are often sung with computer enhancement that makes the words sound almost human. Cher might have started this quite a while back with one of her renditions.
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Quadman2
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UncleBingo
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Oh, you mean the "Auto-tune" synth-pop. Yeah it's ubiquitous. Don't worry. In a few years it will be as obsolete as the Syn-Drum (and possibly approaching a similar unlistenability index until it becomes hip again based on the fact that nobody would be caught dead using it until it's so un-cool that it is considered "Ironic" or iconoclastic).
UncleBingo
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I hear ya. Guess we all are effected by time...and gravity!
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Yet the vapidity of that song somehow transcends the passage of time. Oop, sorry. I had the "Snark" set to max for a second : )
WillVT
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Pop music relies on formulas that are proven to work. And strangely enough, many are written by Swedish songwriting companies. I think of Pop as the fast food of music. McDonald's burgers taste the same anywhere you go, just like Pop songs all sound the same. I don't touch either.
As to the auto-tune craze, I think there are two parts to this phenomenon. There's the voice changing effect that you hear a lot, which is just a trend, then there is the subtler pitch correcting side. This makes anyone who can't really sing on pitch, sound like they can. This part I don't like, because you can't really tell if someone is actually a good singer or not.
As to the auto-tune craze, I think there are two parts to this phenomenon. There's the voice changing effect that you hear a lot, which is just a trend, then there is the subtler pitch correcting side. This makes anyone who can't really sing on pitch, sound like they can. This part I don't like, because you can't really tell if someone is actually a good singer or not.
UncleBingo
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I think of pop music as "Empty calories'. I can't live on it, but sometimes they hit the spot.
Kit-Kat ain't Skittles ain't gummy bears. Gummy bears might be moldable into some sort of ear-plug that would block out some saccharine pop in an emergency, though . : )
Quadman2
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Heard the strangest take to computer enhancement this day in music production! At the end of a phrase/word, the frequency was lowered. Drastically! To my way of thinking...it was weird. Probably because I've never heard this effect before. It was like taking a guitar string and loosening it, in trying to get the correct pitch on the string. In the case of the tune in question, the board man kept doing this all through the whole song, giving it a "Doppler" effect. Have heard this before, but not with the voices and instruments.
I often think, different producers trying the new to get noticed, to to stand out from the rest of the crowd, eh? And there's a waiting audience ready to embrace something different.
And it was...different.
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UncleBingo
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Hendrix did that on Electric Ladyland "!983...". sounds amazing.
Yes, it was "Believe" in 1998-9, I think. The story goes: they were using Autotune for pitch control (never Cher's strong suit) and somebody inadvertently cranked it to 11 thereby creating that cheesy "drowning" effect that remains popular to this day.
Okay, I'll continue to wait for it to go away. Been over 20 years so far ...
likebike23
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There is a ton of great music out right now. Where are you finding most of the stuff you are hearing? If it's through the traditional avenues then you are being shortchanged. YouTube has music from all over the world in every genre imaginable. You can see it all and decide what you like. You don't have to eat what they are feeding you anymore. I for one am 49 this year and feel like I'm finding my groove in a big way lately.
Quadman2
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Yup, that helium voice yodeling robot thing.
Oh yeah THOSE songs.
A mike, laptop, garageband and autotune and you're ready to go. Any song where the artist is "Producer- Song feat. (featuring) singer" is usually going to be a sausage machine created product. It might of started way back when Gergio Moroder added a click track to songs, then came sampling, drum machines and lately autotune.
I can only think of one I like.
The rest are like this.
Like @UncleBingo said.......may they go the way of the Synth Drum.
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What do you need the band for? All the phony sounds you need are in the computer.
Apologies, Garageband is an Apple computer app/program..... with all the phony sounds.
Well, as my dad used to say, I be go-to-hell. Live and learn.
