Word: songfulness
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Rubin, who's produced artists as diverse as the Dixie Chicks and Metallica, worries that the safety net of Auto-Tune is making singers lazy. "Sometimes a singer will do lots of takes when they're recording a song, and you really can hear the emotional difference when someone does a great performance vs. an average one," says Rubin. "If you're pitch-correcting, you might not bother to make the effort. You might just get it done and put it through the machine so it's all in tune." Rubin has taken to having an ethical conversation before each...
With the exception of Milli Vanilli's, pop listeners have always been fairly indulgent about performers' ethics. It's hits that matter, and the average person listening to just one pop song on the radio will have a hard time hearing Auto-Tune's impact; it's effectively deceptive. But when track after track has perfect pitch, the songs are harder to differentiate from one another--which explains why pop is in a pretty serious lull at the moment. It also changes the way we hear unaffected voices. "The other day, someone was talking about how Aretha Franklin...
Despite Randy Jackson's stock American Idol critique--"A little pitchy, dawg"--many beloved songs are actually off-pitch or out of tune. There's Ringo Starr on "With a Little Help from My Friends," of course, and just about every blues song slides into notes as opposed to hitting them dead on. Even Norah Jones, the poster girl of pure vocals, isn't perfect. "There's some wonderful imperfections of pitch on 'Don't Know Why' from Come Away with Me," says Anderson, "and most of the other tunes on the album as well. But I wouldn't want...
...release, his second solo album, “Get Guilty.” “Get Guilty,” though, is nothing like “The Slow Wonder.” Whereas the latter was a boldly experimental album that saw Newman embracing diverse instruments and song forms, the former is consistent from start to finish, seldom, if ever, breaking out of its comfort zone. In fact, “Get Guilty” is much more reminiscent of The New Pornographers’ most recent album, “Challengers.” That album?...
...confirmation hearings. She reiterated that "sincere dialogue" with the North can come only after the nuclear issue has once and for all been put to bed - that is to say, when the North verifiably demonstrates that it longer has a weapons-making program. Pyongyang, says the Sejong Institute's Song, "did not like Hillary's nuance at the confirmation hearing, that denuclearization comes before a sincere dialogue. North Korea does not want itself to be on a back burner when it comes to the new Administration's foreign policy. It wants to bypass Seoul and strike a direct deal with...