You decide. Britney Spears, March 2014:
Posted on 07/09/2014 7:39:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
No one ever thought Britney Spears' songs were untouched in the recording studio, but the singer's voice without Auto-Tune is even worse than we could have imagined.
On July 2, the unedited vocal version of Spears' track "Alien," off her most recent album, "Britney Jean," leaked — and it ain't pretty. Take a listen:
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The video has picked up so much steam online that the song's producer, William Orbit, posted a statement to Facebook explaining that the track is from a vocal warm-up session, not a final take.
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RE: Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, “Under Pressure”, a capella
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Now that was different.
When you remove the music from the QUEEN song, “Under Pressure” it sounds like a convention of manic depressives.
Which I guess is what the point of the music is :)
Just make sure you have your mental airbrush functoning properly, because the media pix we see of her look nothing like what she looks like in person.
Not so much. Taylor Swift plays her own guitar and writes her own songs.
Not so much. Taylor Swift plays her own guitar and writes her own songs.
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That is true, but I have been told (complete hearsay) that she uses pitch correction in concert. Very different from autotune. Fake but accurate, in that the voice itself it unchanged, it just nudges the pitch sharp or flat as needed.
It will be interesting to see how she moves past that wide eyed teenager thing she has done to perfection. But she gets a pass from me for the reasons you mention - she plays her own guitar (a Taylor of all things) and does her own writing, she is not waiting for the Nashville Hit Consortium to send her her next hit song, culled from a Monday morning songwriting session with 4 guys and a rhyming dictionary.
That’s what auto tune does. It nudges the voice sharp or flat as needed. Just like “pitch correction”. Both end up with weird sounding vocals when the pitch is adjusted too much. We used to call those weird sounds “artifacts”. In the old days you would process it repeatedly.... moving the pitch a small amount each time on the areas that were “way out”.... trying to avoid the “artifacts”. These days the artifacts are just part of the vocal. Artifacts begin to surface when you try to move the pitch more than 1/2 of a semitone. The more you adjust the pitch, the more artifacts you hear. It also makes a difference how fast you adjust the pitch. If it is a note that is held and you have time to slide it up gently (like an actual voice might do) you have better results. If the processor is set to a quick adjust, you will hear the obvious sounds that it has been “tuned”. Every album is tuned in this day and age. All of them. Most singers use it while performing live.
I have admittedly minimal acquaintance with either, although the guy who recorded my band’s cd demonstrated pitch correction in protools for me. We did not use it. I guess I think of autotune as pitch correction with other varieties of signal processing.
Thankfully, in the modern acoustic world, in the roots rock world, and in the jazz world, authenticity is still the name of the game - though it would not surprise me if some of the jazz vocalists use pitch correction - so I don’t see a lot of it when I go out to shows. But rarely am I at a venue of >2500 people, and usually smaller than that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1_Lh8-Y_Y
And while she is better known for belting out hard rock songs like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahAQxFrEK3Y
And this, sort of a commentary of pop music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u55fpsbzAfk
She can also sing other styles of music including “country”.
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