Quote from ÜberschallI'm looking at AutoTune more like something to save you some time in the studio. Even someone with huuuuge singing talent will likely need a lot of takes to get every bit of the song just perfect and autotune helps reduce the time it takes for that. The problem is that music today is drilled for perfection, every small mistake is terrible. I don't like that, but you have to go with popular trends to a certain extent, no matter what.
Where it shouldn't be used anyway are live gigs, just because live should be... live and natural. And turning hip-hop into technopop shit isn't what AutoTune is for, that's just some terrible bastardisation of the program's working.
Looking at is as a time saver just makes it sound like a crutch for people who don't have any talent. It sucks that people who actually can sing get pushed by those who can't but just edit their voice to make it sound like they can. And to say that you have to go with what's populat to some extent sounds like what someone who looks at music only for monetary values would say.
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