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[koganbot]

I don't have a poll function, but if I did, these would be the choices:

1) If Heidi Montag's singing didn't sound like she was forcing salt water out through her nose, "No More" would be one of the best singles of the year.

2) Despite her sounding like she's forcing salt water out through her nose, Heidi Montag's "No More" is one of the best singles of the year.

3) Heidi Montag's "No More" is one of the best singles of the year, and one of the reasons for this is that she sounds like she's forcing salt water out through her nose.

(I am wavering between choices 1 and 2. If I were ever to shift to choice 3, this would probably mean that I have entered a new psychosocial life stage, such as _______.)

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Ah... I dunno, that salt-water noise is where the autotune is on this, I think. Although I'm not so great at hearing those things myself so maybe it's not.

I shall look up Body Language... I hadn't heard anything by her until just now, apart from 'Higher,' which as you said, is basically excreable.

[koganbot]

Well, there's definitely something going on with the sound of Heidi's voice on that track, but I think that's owing to some sort of treatment, some minivocoder kind of effect or something. If that's the sign of autotune then autotune is a lot rarer than people say it is and it's also a lot more primitive a technology than I would have thought. But I really don't know anything about it.

Update nine months later

[koganbot]

Ha! Didn't know my technology, did I?* (Didn't know that people used Autotune for timbre as well as pitch - more accurately, that manipulating pitch is one way to play w/ timbre. I'd just assumed that T-Pain was using some gizmo, my never knowing what it was.)

*Not that I do now, mind you, but I finally did get the message about how people if they want to are using Autotune for timbre and symbol and such, rather than just for pitch correction - I assume that they can totally disguise the latter, if they want.