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In Reply to: RE: I'm giving props to Lady Gaga... posted by Todd Krieger on September 7, 2014 at 01:37:59:
Lady Gaga clearly uses auto tune in the pop songs to the "Cher effect" which is of no concern to me. It's basically used as a pseudo synthesizer.
I also don't have an issue with pop singers using it at the same time as a dance number at a live concert because dancing and trying to sing is likely to push you off pitch so long as you're still singing live I find that fine.
I think we want to know they can sing and I suppose the only way to know for absolute certainty is to hear them sing Acapella and not into any sort of microphone.
Lady Gaga has said she uses auto tune - has not denied it.
"Last week, I caught up with Lady GaGa, one of Akon's protégés, and currently number one all over the world with 'Just Dance'. Which has, of course, been autotuned to the hilt. But throughout our interview she kept bursting into snatches of song to demonstrate a point, and it was clear she had no trouble hitting whatever notes she wanted. So I asked her why she felt the need to amend her vocals in the studio. "Its not for my voice," GaGa replied. "The radio is used to a certain perfection and it compresses the voice in a certain kind of way, it smooshes all of the sound together so it sounds smaller but fatter, its not open, very condensed. Unless you are Duffy, where its this extremely organic record, its important to play into the psychology of the listener who is used to a certain sonic quality in the voice. If they don't hear that, its not hip."
Indeed, what she is describing to me sounds like the loudness war - auto tune aids yet again compressed recordings to sound "decent" on $3 car speakers and $3 iPhone headphones. With Gaga you can usually tell in the Vibrato if she is auto-tuned and when she's not.
I don;t think she would lie - she admitted using auto tune and made a kabillion kazillin dollars anyway. So it's not like anyone much cared.
So take the above with the following:
[There] "is no auto tune on the album at all. And the records are one-take suzies. We sang them over and over until they were right." (Cheek to Cheek)
Bennett may be responsible for that as well.
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