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Old 05-27-2016, 01:47 PM   #581 (permalink)
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Really though, I'm still not convinced. Auto tune is just offensive.
Just another studio editing trick, like cutting tapes or doing more than one take.
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Old 05-27-2016, 01:53 PM   #582 (permalink)
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Says the guy who's too up his own ass to listen to music just for the sake of having fun.

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Minus the kick ass synchronized dancing and matching outfits.

Really though, I'm still not convinced. Auto tune is just offensive.
I was pretty much so totally over autotune five minutes after T-Pain reared his literal ugly head, but Ke$ha abuses it in a way that's fun, rather than just tedious. She's just so over the top about all the bull**** she does and her persona, that I can't believe it's not all intentional, and perhaps even a satire of modern music. Albeit one that's far more about making money than making a statement. Unless that statement is "I want money."
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Old 05-27-2016, 01:56 PM   #583 (permalink)
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Says the guy who's too up his own ass to listen to music just for the sake of having fun.
Not listening to ****ty music that uses "fun" as an excuse to cover its scent doesn't mean that I don't find listening to music fun as hell.
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Old 05-27-2016, 01:56 PM   #584 (permalink)
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Its just surprising who makes the 'mainstream' (speaking for all decades), in theory it should go to the best artists out there, but then we end up with a lot of catchy repetitive emptiness that values shock factor over quality sneaking in there instead. How does this happen?
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Old 05-27-2016, 02:06 PM   #585 (permalink)
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Its just surprising who makes the 'mainstream' (speaking for all decades), in theory it should go to the best artists out there, but then we end up with a lot of catchy repetitive emptiness that values shock factor over quality sneaking in there instead. How does this happen?
Money. That's how it happens. A giant media conglomerate decides that they'll make more money and take less risk by doing *B*, so they do that, instead of *B*. Just how it's always been. The only difference now is that the whole youth culture of the sixties that we like to fetishize so much, with its Beatles and Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, made the record companies so much money that they became far bigger than they ever had been before, and with size comes conservative decision making. So those same bands so many people look back on as the pinnacle of popular music were probably also the very thing that made it into what it is today.

But while I'm sure that record companies take less risks these days, I'm equally certain that they probably put out a comparable amount of garbage compared to a few decades ago that would appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to recoup their losses from taking risks on less sure bets.
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Old 05-27-2016, 02:16 PM   #586 (permalink)
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Interesting Batlord, even though it is sad. Who is going to stand the test of time anymore? Is this stuff going to be appealing to my kids in 20 years?
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Interesting Batlord, even though it is sad. Who is going to stand the test of time anymore? Is this stuff going to be appealing to my kids in 20 years?
Kids are stupid, they'll love it.
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I'll be damned if I have to listen to Justin Beiber in 2050.
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Old 05-27-2016, 02:22 PM   #589 (permalink)
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I'll be damned if I have to listen to Justin Beiber in 2050.
Who knows where he'll be at by then? The Beatless started off as a teeny bopper band.
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If my kids don't want to listen to Ke$ha then I'll just beat them until they do, even if only because of brain damage. And if they die, then I'll just make new kids and show them the corpses of their previous siblings as a warning.
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