The only music is popular music guys

Get with the ****ing program

Did any of these songs or albums have Auto Tune incorporated into them? You can look them up if you haven't heard them before...

*All Loved Up - Fish (2014)
*Bridge Burning - Foo Fighters (2011)
*Delicate Matters - Patti Rothberg (2000)
*Leaving New York - REM (2002)
*Fifth Fret - The Connells (1996)
*Come Home - Placebo (1996)
*American Idiot - Green Day (2005)
*Heroes Never Die - Mostly Autumn (1998)

Why don't you look them up and tell us. Most people here don't really mind auto-tuning. My only beef with it has nothing to do with it's use, and I'm not gonna derail your thread complaining about it.

I just feel that it seems a little fake, and makes me feel sorry for those who do not use it. I could theoretically look it up, but very little will give the answer unless the artist is very well known...

Do you have a problem with guitar pedals?

What about artists who use autotune to enhance the music and have it become an instrument in itself a couple very popular examples would be Kanye and The Flaming Lips.

Also I'd make a big list, but Dead Channel pretty much covered that.

Do you object to artists who use things like compression or limiters or reverb or multi-tracked vocals to enhance their recordings?

Not especially, no. But these could always be created since the dawn of modern music. I don't really regard pedals and reverb as cheats in the same way.

Have you noticed how those guitarists with their fancy-shmancy electric guitars and distortion whatchamacallits let notes ring for, like, forever? They aren't even playing. They just hold them and try to look cool. The guitars basically play themselves. Damn phonies.
Now a nice acoustic guitar, preferably with intestine strings, that takes real talent to play.

Why not? And why would using a tool to produce a desired sound be considered a cheat?