"Out of touch and not afraid to admit it"

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believe me, i don't want to hate autotune. i want to be able to like just about anything. but at this point, the only autotune i want to hear is deep on the ocean floor, modulated by deep water flows, time-stretched to 400x length

i don't have too many dealbreakers like that, and whenever autotune comes up in real life i just try to think about other things and let it go by, because i don't want to be that guy who hates on autotune. except on this thread though

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link

honestly i would like a #autotune tag on any review that covers it, though. the worst thing is when the review makes it sound like incredibly pop, and maybe it actually is, but...

another analogy. it is like a great painter who always uses the same exact bright neon yellow green, on top of everything else, very thick, impasto, always, on every single painting

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link

the only autotune i want to hear is deep on the ocean floor, modulated by deep water flows, time-stretched to 400x length

it's been a long time since an ilx post made me weep for the beauty of it. ty The Postman

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link

Autotune is to pop as eyelash extensions are to femininity; performative artificiality that highlights the underlying absurdity of idealised norms. It can either be super fucking hot or a total cringey bore.

The Ghost Club, Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link

I couldn't quite ID why most modern pop music was exhausting for me to listen to until I watched hours and hours of "pop music producer shows you their Logic Pro workflow" videos. What kills me is that most songs now have at least 90+ tracks - each track tweaked and/or worked over.

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link

xp

<3 *puts 2 tacos into the mailbox*

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link

xp ghost club i think on my better days i agree with you, that it can be really good. i just think, imagine if there were a new song with a tambourine solo. and then suddenly, every single song had a tambourine solo. and this went on for like 20 years

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link

no, but what you don't understand is that THIS tambourine solo takes place over some really innovative discordant stuff

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link

("why why why why why" by sault is a fine example).

wow! have listened to this dozens of times and it using auto-tune never crossed my mind.

i'm out of touch with auto-tune use and not afraid to admit it.

stirmonster, Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link

Like a lot of people I thought autotune was a fad that would wane, and so subsequently I've wondered if it would be analogous to something like heavy electric guitar distortion for people in the sixties, which also never went away (though rock has become marginal).

Funnily enough I was listening to Caetano Veloso's white album this morning and thinking "this is really good, but the guitar is like someone scrawling all over a beautiful landscape painting," which I assume must have been an intended effect.

eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link

wow, the guitar parts are one of the best parts in the '69 album. Lanny Gordin ftw

fpsa, Sunday, 7 August 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link


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