Q. There’s a big trend these days to use auto-tuned vocals. What do you think about that?

AF. The what?

Q. Auto-tuned vocals — it’s a way to digitally correct pitch.

AF. I’ve never heard of that! I’ve never even heard of that.

RnBAmbassador said:

Q. There’s a big trend these days to use auto-tuned vocals. What do you think about that?

AF. The what?

Q. Auto-tuned vocals — it’s a way to digitally correct pitch.

AF. I’ve never heard of that! I’ve never even heard of that.

LOL! She'd probably fall off her chair if she heard HALF of these so-called "artists" or "vocalists" TODAY! It's all CRAP! If you're TRULY a good singer, you don't NEED 2 correct your "pitch," Rihanna, Ciara, etc...

Don't even get me started on this today.

Ree like "fuck outta here".

^ Sho'NUFF!

Obviously, she listens to NO contemporary music.

Timmy84 said:

Ree like "fuck outta here".

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aardvark15 said:

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Didn't Cher mainstream this whole auto-tune thing with that horrendous "Believe" song???

aardvark15 said:

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Whatever Cher.

kitbradley said:

kitbradley said:

aardvark15 said:

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Didn't Cher mainstream this whole auto-tune thing with that horrendous "Believe" song???

hold on right there

it was used as a (then cool/trendy) effect to embellish the vocals in certain areas of the song

auto-tune during the 99-02 era was nothing more than a (now dated/cheesy) effect

but nowadays it's used to produce people who CAN'T sing, BIG difference

and Believe is still a hell of a pop classic

JoeTyler said:

hold on right there

it was used as a (then cool/trendy) effect to embellish the vocals in certain areas of the song

auto-tune during the 99-02 era was nothing more than a (now dated/cheesy) effect

but nowadays it's used to produce people who CAN'T sing, BIG difference

and Believe is still a hell of a pop classic

JoeTyler said:

kitbradley said:

Didn't Cher mainstream this whole auto-tune thing with that horrendous "Believe" song???

hold on right there

it was used as a (then cool/trendy) effect to embellish the vocals in certain areas of the song

auto-tune during the 99-02 era was nothing more than a (now dated/cheesy) effect

but nowadays it's used to produce people who CAN'T sing, BIG difference

and Believe is still a hell of a pop classic

When Cher used it, it was another way of making noise. When everyone else started doing it, it only exposed them for not being talented enough.

But anyway, I doubt Ree would've fucked with it anyways if she knew what it was.

Timmy84 said:

But anyway, I doubt Ree would've fucked with it anyways if she knew what it was.

Why are speaking in past tense? She's probably googling right now

Cher's recording catalog goes back about as far as Aretha's so SAVE IT

aardvark15 said:

Timmy84 said:

But anyway, I doubt Ree would've fucked with it anyways if she knew what it was.

Why are speaking in past tense? She's probably googling right now

Cinny said:

Cher's recording catalog goes back about as far as Aretha's so SAVE IT

Uh Aretha came out in 1960 (1956 if we're counting gospel recordings).

kitbradley said:

aardvark15 said:

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Didn't Cher mainstream this whole auto-tune thing with that horrendous "Believe" song???

She did but for her it was just a cool effect. Cher likes to try different things, and we all know what her voice is like so I wasn't mad at her for that. Unfortunately, this gave the greenlight to the careers of the non-singers like Spears, Rihanna etc who use auto-tune in just about every damn song

Timmy84 said:

JoeTyler said:

hold on right there

it was used as a (then cool/trendy) effect to embellish the vocals in certain areas of the song

auto-tune during the 99-02 era was nothing more than a (now dated/cheesy) effect

but nowadays it's used to produce people who CAN'T sing, BIG difference

and Believe is still a hell of a pop classic

When Cher used it, it was another way of making noise. When everyone else started doing it, it only exposed them for not being talented enough.

But anyway, I doubt Ree would've fucked with it anyways if she knew what it was.

^ Exactly.

Timmy84 said:

Cinny said:

Cher's recording catalog goes back about as far as Aretha's so SAVE IT

Uh Aretha came out in 1960 (1956 if we're counting gospel recordings).

I'm sayin'.

Timmy84 said:

aardvark15 said:

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Whatever Cher.

CORRECTION: Cher never used auto-tunes. Her vocal track on Believe were processed with a vocoder. And as we all know, vocaders & talkboxes are definitely old-school.

JoeTyler said:

kitbradley said:

Didn't Cher mainstream this whole auto-tune thing with that horrendous "Believe" song???

hold on right there

it was used as a (then cool/trendy) effect to embellish the vocals in certain areas of the song

auto-tune during the 99-02 era was nothing more than a (now dated/cheesy) effect

but nowadays it's used to produce people who CAN'T sing, BIG difference

and Believe is still a hell of a pop classic

I REPEAT: Cher used a vocoder, NOT MFing auto-tunes!

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

Whatever Cher.

CORRECTION: Cher never used auto-tunes. Her vocal track on Believe were processed with a vocoder. And as we all know, vocaders & talkboxes are definitely old-school.

I actually did read that...

Cinny said:

Timmy84 said:

Uh Aretha came out in 1960 (1956 if we're counting gospel recordings).

I'm sayin'.

lol and even Cher wasn't using autotune on "Believe".

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

Whatever Cher.

CORRECTION: Cher never used auto-tunes. Her vocal track on Believe were processed with a vocoder. And as we all know, vocaders & talkboxes are definitely old-school.

Do you have your sources? I can't seem to find any.

aardvark15 said:

TonyVanDam said:

CORRECTION: Cher never used auto-tunes. Her vocal track on Believe were processed with a vocoder. And as we all know, vocaders & talkboxes are definitely old-school.

Do you have your sources? I can't seem to find any.

Hmm... apparently, the vocoder story was debunked. The "Cher effect" was allegedly used by Antares Autotune. Cher was really the reason that vocal effect stayed on "Believe". When Warner Bros told her they didn't want it on the song, she reportedly yelled "over my dead body!"

Timmy84 said:

aardvark15 said:

Do you have your sources? I can't seem to find any.

Hmm... apparently, the vocoder story was debunked. The "Cher effect" was allegedly used by Antares Autotune. Cher was really the reason that vocal effect stayed on "Believe". When Warner Bros told her they didn't want it on the song, she reportedly yelled "over my dead body!"

Everytime I hear that "Believe" song, I think of the Buffy the Vampire episode when Buffy when off to college and her dorm mate kept playing that song over and over again. It irritated the hell out of Buffy. The chick turned out to be a demon and Buffy had to kill her. I can't remember exactly what Buffy said but it was something like she deserved it for playing that song.

kitbradley said:

Everytime I hear that "Believe" song, I think of the Buffy the Vampire episode when Buffy when off to college and her dorm mate kept playing that song over and over again. It irritated the hell out of Buffy. The chick turned out to be a demon and Buffy had to kill her. I can't remember exactly what Buffy said but it was something like she deserved it for playing that song.

you watched that shit???