Listen to this three-minute clip of George Michael's new single, "True Faith," available digitally on March 13 and physically on March 14!

http://www.georgemichael.com/

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with a voice like his why the hell he had 2 use this auto-tune effect...disppointing 2 say at least..and I was full of expectation about this track...

Awful George, talk about phoning one in.....damn, lowering yourself to Tpain land

a great song...a great singer..how could he do this mess.....I still can't believe it. Yet it's true

autotune?

Eh it's cool. It's not the end of the world. I actually don't mind him on vocoder.

Timmy84 said:

Eh it's cool. It's not the end of the world. I actually don't mind him on vocoder.

It doesn't sound like a vocoder to me. A vocoder sounds like a robot voice (ie. Freak A Zoid, Rockit). I can still hear George's voice on this song.

MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

Eh it's cool. It's not the end of the world. I actually don't mind him on vocoder.

It doesn't sound like a vocoder to me. A vocoder sounds like a robot voice (ie. Freak A Zoid, Rockit). I can still hear George's voice on this song.

Yeah it may be autotune now that I hear it but it's whatever.

a new George Michael song?!!!

bboy87 said:

a new George Michael song?!!!

Boy where you've been? Nah seriously, it was announced like early this month.

I was excited before I heard it, but disappointed after hearing the sample. I'll be skipping this one.

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sexy invincible avatar vanilli!

I didn't know he was working on new music either, that's great!

He didn't need that affect, but it's beautiful!

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His take of autotune actually reminded me of when Bon Iver used it on "Woods" (almost). So I like it.

bboy87 said:

a new George Michael song?!!!

OK seriously, I'm like 10 secs into the song and totally not getting the autotune...on the other hand I'm finding it amusing, since we know he doesn't need to depend on it.

I'll have to listen to it a few times or take it in the context of a whole album.

He sounds like a drunk robot.

johnart said:

bboy87 said:

a new George Michael song?!!!

OK seriously, I'm like 10 secs into the song and totally not getting the autotune...on the other hand I'm finding it amusing, since we know he doesn't need to depend on it.

I'll have to listen to it a few times or take it in the context of a whole album.

He sounds like a drunk robot.

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bboy87 said:

johnart said:

OK seriously, I'm like 10 secs into the song and totally not getting the autotune...on the other hand I'm finding it amusing, since we know he doesn't need to depend on it.

I'll have to listen to it a few times or take it in the context of a whole album.

He sounds like a drunk robot.

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I say this...Pre-cise-leeeeeeeee!

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the original is one of the best songs of all time, well for me anyway

i don't mind his robotic voice too much but it's not a good cover

johnart said:

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willi ninja... THE KING!!! those 'house of ninja' kids are keeping up the legacy. that's great.

i couldn't take it... the autotune was driving me crazy. george michael, WHAT are you doing??!! i'm actually not into new order (or that song), but hearing the 'cover' made me actually like the new order version.

and STEVIE uses autotune here too (why, i will never know- he's sung the song live and it's perfectly fine), but it doesn't get too much in the way of the song.

Autotune is for singers who....can't sing.

And GM can sing his ass off so what the fuck?

I'm really liking his take on this, very haunting.

armpit said:

Autotune is for singers who....can't sing.

And GM can sing his ass off so what the fuck?

Autotune started out as a pitch correction tool, nowadays is also used setted to the extreme in order to obtain the robotic voice effect you can hear in this GM song, like it or not it's just another effect like delays, reverbs and stuff like that.

go2theMax said:

with a voice like his why the hell he had 2 use this auto-tune effect...disppointing 2 say at least..and I was full of expectation about this track...

exactly

NOOOOOOOOO.

George his voice is the sex, why do he use Autotune. What the hell.

I loved 'Listen Without Prejudice' and 'Older.' Unfortunately, for me, the autotune/ vocoder - whatever the hot mess is - simply hurts my ears. I was just about to hit 'stop' when, thankfully, the snippet faded. Real shame as I feel without the vocal effect this would be pleasant listening.

Rayan said:

I'm really liking his take on this, very haunting.

this dupe thread.

See http://prince.org/msg/8/353949