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AutoTune my blog

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A friend from work asked, “why haven’t you updated your blog?” “oh yeah, I have a blog…” So there has been something I wanted to blog about.. And that is the state of music today. Back in my day, (crap, I’m too young for back in my day. I’m only in my 30s) Back in my day, there was a thing called talent. Singers and musicians did something called perform. By performing, they created music. Also back then they would do some pitch correction in the studio, but it was a lot of work. And then “in 1997, Antares Audio Technologies developed revolutionary pitch-correction software called Auto-Tune” (Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04312/406807.stm ) This allowed record companies to easily “fix” bad performances. This also allowed bad artists to sound as if they had talent. Example below: Please note that this will be the first and last time I post Cher on my blog. Words I never thought I’d ever say. So here we are today. Auto-tune isn’t something people are asha