Poll: Your view on auto-tune

[LightspeedJack]

It's ok in some instances such as the following, however I don't think its an excuse for people who can't sing to make shit music that the chart watching mouthbreathers lap up, e.g. Black Eyed Peas, T-Pian, Kesha.

Good examples:

 

[Luhrsen]

I don't usually like it. But the dog was great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4bmK-acEM

 

[Luhrsen]

Grrr, stupid lost double posting. >.<

 

[Gaderael]

It has it's uses. It can make for an interesting effect when not overdone. Unfortunately, it's used for everything and makes the Biebers of the world sound like they can sing/rap/whatever.

99% of the time, I hate the god damned thing.

 

[neoman10]

Only good aspect of auto-tune

 

[koriantor]

SNIP

Vocoders? What about One More Time?
[sub]If Wikipedia is to be trusted.[/sub]

I checked out the page, and the source saying it was autotuned was dead. There was however a valid source saying

"We care less now than we used to about what critics say about our music. We liked the track, Romanthony liked it, we can be disappointed about what they said about the song, but still we liked it. It?s just music, it?s just entertainment, and as long as we believe in it that?s what is important. It?s what we wanted to do. We love to be able to use instruments the way we want to. Criticizing the Vocoder is like asking bands in the ?60s, ?Why do you use the electric guitar?? It?s just a tool... no big deal. Creation is interaction. The healthy thing is that people either loved it or hated it. At least people were not neutral. The worst thing when you make art is for people to not even be moved by it. Love and hate are interesting because it?s deep and intense. It?s one side of our music that people might be sensitive to and others might not.[7]"

Wikipedia is not to be trusted.

Trust me, I've got some experience with vocoders.

 

[iamthelizardqueen88]

I have only ever heard one single song with autotuned vocals, that i actually liked. And that was because it was used specifically for that single song to amplify the meaning and feel of it (the group never used it for any other song). And that was from a time when it wasn't popular yet.

So yeah, shoot it, then cut it to pieces with a chainsaw, then shoot it some more, then kill it again with fire, and then put the remains into a toxic waste dumb.

(sorry i picked your post) do you people even know exactly what auto-tune is or what its does? i can personally guarantee you every single one of you has listened to countless song with auto-tune you just didnt realize it was there. that whole over processed T-Pain voice isnt what auto-tune was ment to do in fact ive read a quote from its creator stating he never thought anyone in their right mind would use it like that. so i beg all of you learn what it is before you bash it. i have no problem with the bashing of the people who use it incorrectly but to bash the software its self and say it should go you should know doing so would change the music scene drastically and im not too sure thats a good thing

 

[someonehairy-ish]

I vote kill it with fire because as a result all the talentless leeches who make careers out of using that machine and miming when they call themselves performers would all burn with it.

Its ocassionally fun as part of a parody. I have no problem with certain other vocal effects designed to make your signing sound cool, eg vocal distortion- they are used more sparingly by the people that use them, and also they don't sort out your singing for you artificially, they just add effects. I could bear Autotune if a song had perhaps 1 verse of it or so, and it was used in such a way that it ADDED to the overall impact/musical value of the song, rather than just being an easy opt-out for talentless w***buckets.

 

[pigmypython]

Should be destroyed, that way you have to be marginally talented to succeed...(emphasis on marginally) plus I don't care for the sound much, but then I'm old and cranky.

 

[badgersprite]

I don't care. I really don't. I don't get how it bugs so many people considering 99% of the time it's used you're either not going to notice, or it will make the song better. If they are enhanced to the point of sounding like robots, then they're doubtlessly doing it that way for a reason, and you would probably like them even less if they weren't using it. I don't know, but to me it just sounds like people complaining about genres of music they don't like to listen to anyway.

Then again, I listen to dance and electronica, and voice effects like this have been used to enhance those songs for effect for ages. I think those songs would sound wrong if they weren't electronically enhanced, so that might have skewed my perspective a little.

 

[zehydra]

hate it. Although I don't mind it's use in the studio that much, I hate it when it's used in performance.

 

[euro2019]

I don't know why people rage so much about auto-tune. If the song sounds good listen to it! It's music, people worked hard (despite what ignorant morons might think) to make those songs. If they're hits I listen to them. I don't get a hard-on for "listening to certain artists". If they make songs that have a good beat (screw the lyrics), I'm in.

T-pain still makes good songs and just like a lot of artists 50% of them suck, so what? If the songs sell, obviously people enjoy listening to them.

Auto-tune still requires a certain degree of musical talent to pull off. Who cares if its their real voice or not? Do I listen to music to listen for "talent"? No. Do i listen to music to "hear a real and beautiful voice" sometimes. Not always. Besides if people would hop off mainstream media and MTV they'd find there's still plenty of good non-autotuned songs out there. Many seem to think that the only music thats popular is that which is heard on the radio and TV. NO. There's plenty of sites and online radio stations that have many listeners in fact that play real talented artists (thats not to say that people you hear on the radio and TV arn't talented. But they are milked to a certain degree and that's ok, what's wrong with people making a lot of money nowadays? "Because they don't deserve it" boohoo..go cry about it)

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

It's stupid and allows for general laziness from many artists...like Lil Wayne for example.

 

[Treblaine]

If it's good, then it's good. No point lettign prejudice get in the way. I'm not the type of person to think:

"wow, that song (that happened to use Auto-tune) sounded really good, but since I'm a purist douchebag who thinks the art of singing should be 100% natural with no technological enhancements... so I will force myself to hate it because of my prejudice"

T-pain and others like him obviously makes good songs with auto-tune. If you don't like that, well congratulations, you are a human being with your own unique preferences. I don't like Limp Bizkit, we all have a type of music we don't like, so who cares. No point wishing ill on that type.

 

[TPiddy]

Auto-Tune is only the naturally progression of the ongoing faking of the music industry. Ever since MTV, image has been more important than talent. Look at the masterful vocals that bands like Queen and Boston were able to pull off without that shit...

Hell, even bands like Aerosmith, the Rolling Stones and AC/DC don't have great singing, but it didn't matter, they have musical talent. Now, you don't even need to be able to sing. Just present the right image and you're in.

 

[General Ken8]

I curse whoever the douchebag was who invented that horrid device. Thanks to auto-tune some of the crappiest crap to ever be craped has come into existence. If it were up to me I would ban that stupid thing.

Funny, it was originally used as sonar to detect things in the ocean, and someone messed with it to make it a voice tuner.
Personally, I don't mind it, but I don't really like it a lot either. In small amounts it sounds okay, but most people abuse the hell out of it

 

[Dr. wonderful]

It's fun as hell.

Also, your poll options make me sick.

 

[Professor James]

I have no problem as long is it's used sparingly and properly. I hate it when a whole singer or rapper is only famous because of that machine. but I wouldn't blame the machine, I'd blame the singer/rapper and the people that hire them.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Remember when artists sang the right notes, it wasn't digitally altered?

You know, back when popular singers actually had fucking talent?

So...You're going to do something about it?

Just wondering.

 

[lvl9000_woot]

It has it's place.

Like on the bed intruder song and stuff.

I agree.

Other songs like what T-pain "sings" and such aren't anything I care to listen to.