http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
GET YOUR GUIDO OUT OF MY GODDAMN JOHNNY CASH!
so thats the video everyone is talking about....
Im still not going to watch it
:argh!:
:crankey: Have you no decency?!
BUT WAIT! I CAN DOWNLOAD IT AS A RINGTONE!
Fun fun fun
Party party party
Backseat frontseat backseat
Walking down the stairs. Drinking frappes.
Singing words of things I'm doing.
Fun fun fun
Party party party
Backseat frontseat backseat
Quote from: Alty on March 31, 2011, 03:45:35 AM
Fun fun fun
Party party party
Backseat frontseat backseat
Walking down the stairs. Drinking frappes.
Singing words of things I'm doing.
Fun fun fun
Party party party
Backseat frontseat backseat
You might just have a career ahead of you in songwriting.
Bernie Taupin would be so jealous!
That is a hell of a lot of autotune artifacts.
Can't they find a girl who can sing at least a little on key?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 03:46:50 AM
Quote from: Alty on March 31, 2011, 03:45:35 AM
Fun fun fun
Party party party
Backseat frontseat backseat
Walking down the stairs. Drinking frappes.
Singing words of things I'm doing.
Fun fun fun
Party party party
Backseat frontseat backseat
You might just have a career ahead of you in songwriting.
Bernie Taupin would be so jealous!
Hot diggity!
I'm off in search of a naive and talentless prepubescent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINYgVtRVjU <-- An actual improvement to the thread.
FUN FUN FUN
Quote from: Requia ☣ on March 31, 2011, 03:52:25 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINYgVtRVjU <-- An actual improvement to the thread.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 03:42:30 AM
BUT WAIT! I CAN DOWNLOAD IT AS A RINGTONE!
but i don't have a cellphone either... Im a horrible citizen of the 21st Century
:sad:
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 31, 2011, 04:25:11 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 03:42:30 AM
BUT WAIT! I CAN DOWNLOAD IT AS A RINGTONE!
but i don't have a cellphone either... Im a horrible citizen of the 21st Century
:sad:
Ima have Jeff call me on my cellphone during the morning meeting.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 04:26:16 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 31, 2011, 04:25:11 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 03:42:30 AM
BUT WAIT! I CAN DOWNLOAD IT AS A RINGTONE!
but i don't have a cellphone either... Im a horrible citizen of the 21st Century
:sad:
Ima have Jeff call me on my cellphone during the morning meeting.
You evil, evil man.
Quote from: Unqualified on March 31, 2011, 04:45:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 04:26:16 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 31, 2011, 04:25:11 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 03:42:30 AM
BUT WAIT! I CAN DOWNLOAD IT AS A RINGTONE!
but i don't have a cellphone either... Im a horrible citizen of the 21st Century
:sad:
Ima have Jeff call me on my cellphone during the morning meeting.
You evil, evil man.
FRIDAYFRIDAYFRIDAYFRIIIIIDAAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEE
THIS IS BAD SHIT. AND NOW IT'S STUCK IN MY HEAD.
Oh hell, I just looked this up the other day to figure out what everyone was talking about.
On a related note, did you know that Lady Gaga and Lady Antebellum are different people? Me neither! Crazy, right?
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342379/ns/today-entertainment/ (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342379/ns/today-entertainment/)
QuoteHer "Friday" video may have garnered 16 million views in one week, but Rebecca Black hasn't won over Miley Cyrus.
"It should be harder to be an artist," Cyrus, 18,
Artist. Yeah, sure.
WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 31, 2011, 02:15:46 PM
WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?
THE LOGICAL END RESULT OF YOU FUCKERS THINKING YOU KNEW MORE THAN BOB SEGER AND ELVIS PRESLEY.
THIS IS
YOUR DOING.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 02:46:16 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 31, 2011, 02:15:46 PM
WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?
THE LOGICAL END RESULT OF YOU FUCKERS THINKING YOU KNEW MORE THAN BOB SEGER AND ELVIS PRESLEY.
THIS IS YOUR DOING.
No.
It wasn't me. I swear.
this deserves a re-toasting ITT, if for no other reason than for the horror it will cause
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKH5S5IpGdk
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 02:46:16 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 31, 2011, 02:15:46 PM
WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?
THE LOGICAL END RESULT OF YOU FUCKERS THINKING YOU KNEW MORE THAN BOB SEGER AND ELVIS PRESLEY.
THIS IS YOUR DOING.
Elvis Metal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc1i1O9pALg)
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 31, 2011, 12:39:30 PM
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342379/ns/today-entertainment/ (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342379/ns/today-entertainment/)
QuoteHer "Friday" video may have garnered 16 million views in one week, but Rebecca Black hasn't won over Miley Cyrus.
"It should be harder to be an artist," Cyrus, 18,
Artist. Yeah, sure.
Damn straight. Your dad should have to be a one-hit wonder who pimps you out to a major media corporation so they can sell backpacks and paper plates with your face on them for you to be famous.
Quote from: Laughin Jude on March 31, 2011, 05:13:18 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 31, 2011, 12:39:30 PM
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342379/ns/today-entertainment/ (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342379/ns/today-entertainment/)
QuoteHer "Friday" video may have garnered 16 million views in one week, but Rebecca Black hasn't won over Miley Cyrus.
"It should be harder to be an artist," Cyrus, 18,
Artist. Yeah, sure.
Damn straight. Your dad should have to be a one-hit wonder who pimps you out to a major media corporation so they can sell backpacks and paper plates with your face on them for you to be the apex of contemporary art.
Fixt.
I hate you forever for the OP. There is no cure.
I was up all damned night because li'l Alty kept waking up crying. He rolls bumps into the sides of his bed and starts crying about every two hour and I'm not sure of what to do. I already have insomnia so losing sleep that I manage to steal from this life fills me to the gills with RAGE and HATE and SEVERE CRANKYNESS. When I have a hard time sleeping, tossing and turning, music tends to pound throughout my skull in an unpleasant way.
Last night? ALL NIGHT?
FUNFUNFUNFRIDAYWEEKENDBACKSEATFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUN
Or Kill Me
Goodbye music, it was nice knowing you...
Heh, if you ever really want to torture yourself, and you have satellite radio, tune into the Radio Disney station. It's basically this kind of shit 24/7. Unfortunately, I accidentally landed on it while flipping through the stations while my daughter was in the car. Ugh, so much auto-tune.!
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 31, 2011, 05:47:25 PM
Heh, if you ever really want to torture yourself, and you have satellite radio, tune into the Radio Disney station. It's basically this kind of shit 24/7. Unfortunately, I accidentally landed on it while flipping through the stations while my daughter was in the car. Ugh, so much auto-tune.!
And they have DEVO II!
:lulz:
Oh come on guys. Her mom paied ARK MEDIA $2k for her daughter to record two songs and two vidoes. She's not signed, she had no intention of marketing these things, it hit the web and went viral. Of course it sucks. She's not a singer, and was handed to a couple of cut-throat producers who didn't give a fuck about her and just turned the auto-tune up to 11 over a generic pop song for the cash.
If you're gonna throw a shitfit over an over-privileged 13-year-old's vanity project, you may want to consider valium for a few weeks.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 05:48:17 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 31, 2011, 05:47:25 PM
Heh, if you ever really want to torture yourself, and you have satellite radio, tune into the Radio Disney station. It's basically this kind of shit 24/7. Unfortunately, I accidentally landed on it while flipping through the stations while my daughter was in the car. Ugh, so much auto-tune.!
And they have DEVO II!
:lulz:
DEVO II is like the Rolling Stones compared to the likes of Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and well, I can't remember any of the other ones.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 31, 2011, 05:51:56 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 05:48:17 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 31, 2011, 05:47:25 PM
Heh, if you ever really want to torture yourself, and you have satellite radio, tune into the Radio Disney station. It's basically this kind of shit 24/7. Unfortunately, I accidentally landed on it while flipping through the stations while my daughter was in the car. Ugh, so much auto-tune.!
And they have DEVO II!
:lulz:
DEVO II is like the Rolling Stones compared to the likes of Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and well, I can't remember any of the other ones.
Rebecca Black, though, is on a level entirely her own.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 31, 2011, 05:50:09 PM
Oh come on guys. Her mom paied ARK MEDIA $2k for her daughter to record two songs and two vidoes. She's not signed, she had no intention of marketing these things, it hit the web and went viral. Of course it sucks. She's not a singer, and was handed to a couple of cut-throat producers who didn't give a fuck about her and just turned the auto-tune up to 11 over a generic pop song for the cash.
If you're gonna throw a shitfit over an over-privileged 13-year-old's vanity project, you may want to consider valium for a few weeks.
I've been using valium for a couple of years, and I still go into a mindless fury.
It's just plain WRONG, LMNO. It's like digging up Robert Palmer and pissing on his skull.
There are a 160 thousand likes on that video...
LMNO's motorcycle is correct. This video is virally popular because of how terrible it is. I believe some /b/-tards are declaring her the new Queen of /b/ (a title held by such luminaries as Boxxy, for example).
It's an unintentional troll, and a brilliant one at that. It straddles the line between "genuinely that banal and awful" and "this is a joke, right?" pretty perfectly.
That said, I still hate it.
Quote from: Cainad on March 31, 2011, 06:31:25 PM
LMNO's motorcycle is correct. This video is virally popular because of how terrible it is. I believe some /b/-tards are declaring her the new Queen of /b/ (a title held by such luminaries as Boxxy, for example).
It's an unintentional troll, and a brilliant one at that. It straddles the line between "genuinely that banal and awful" and "this is a joke, right?" pretty perfectly.
That said, I still hate it.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on March 31, 2011, 05:58:38 PM
There are a 160 thousand likes on that video.
I'll eat my own ass with chopsticks if at least half of those "likes" aren't trolls, or joking.
This is what happened to Rock and Roll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LWV_2DV-ss
Quote from: Requia ☣ on March 31, 2011, 05:58:38 PM
There are a 160 thousand likes on that video...
The Rickroll Effect in action.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 31, 2011, 06:52:24 PM
This is what happened to Rock and Roll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LWV_2DV-ss
what IS that?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 05:48:17 PM
And they have DEVO II!
:lulz:
I lost a lot of respect for Devo when they initially endorsed this.
Quote from: Vaud on March 31, 2011, 07:37:01 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 05:48:17 PM
And they have DEVO II!
:lulz:
I lost a lot of respect for Devo when they initially endorsed this.
In that case, you need to read more about DEVO.
Quote from: Vaud on March 31, 2011, 07:37:01 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 05:48:17 PM
And they have DEVO II!
:lulz:
I lost a lot of respect for Devo when they initially endorsed this.
Mark Mothersbaugh is a card-carrying SubGenius. When he got out of the biz, he squeezed the last few drops of money out of it.
This is Dobbs-Approved behavior. Yeah, they're Pink, but their money is still green.
http://www.billboard.com/charts/heatseekers-songs#/charts/heatseekers-songs
Quote from: Requia ☣ on April 01, 2011, 04:26:39 PM
http://www.billboard.com/charts/heatseekers-songs#/charts/heatseekers-songs
YES.
Wikipedia says she also hit top 40 in Australia and New Zealand.
Do they have those stations that just play top 40 without any regard to what the song actually is? :lulz:
Quote from: Requia ☣ on April 01, 2011, 04:40:45 PM
Wikipedia says she also hit top 40 in Australia and New Zealand.
Do they have those stations that just play top 40 without any regard to what the song actually is? :lulz:
It's also April 1st.
Good point -checks the citations-
http://www.charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rebecca+Black Do we have any Kiwi spags here? I have no idea if your music ratings people are the kind to pull elaborate practical jokes.
The Aussie one is digital charts, not the same thing.
I think a lot of has to do with, god help us, search engine hits.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 31, 2011, 07:27:03 PM
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on March 31, 2011, 07:26:19 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 31, 2011, 06:52:24 PM
This is what happened to Rock and Roll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LWV_2DV-ss
what IS that?
AMERICA.
I actually found this entertaining. Something about a band made up entirely of old unenthusiastic fat guys and one happy Asian keyboard player, being mixed by a very disinterested guy in a Slipknot shirt.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 31, 2011, 05:50:09 PM
Oh come on guys. Her mom paied ARK MEDIA $2k for her daughter to record two songs and two vidoes. She's not signed, she had no intention of marketing these things, it hit the web and went viral. Of course it sucks. She's not a singer, and was handed to a couple of cut-throat producers who didn't give a fuck about her and just turned the auto-tune up to 11 over a generic pop song for the cash.
If you're gonna throw a shitfit over an over-privileged 13-year-old's vanity project, you may want to consider valium for a few weeks.
:lol:
Agreed. The dude who wrote the song has apparently stepped up because he felt bad that Miss Black was getting so much negative attention for something that he created. I also heard that he asked the family if he should take the video down and they said 'No! Leave it!' From this, I gather that both parties know exactly what they're doing.
Obviously, the song is terrible. I don't think there's any dispute there. Mrs Mang told me about it first and I went and checked it out. Went something like this:
Mrs Mang: Did you play that Rebecca Black song yet?
Me: Yeah. It's bad. But is it any worse than the last few singles put out by the Black Eyed Peas?
Mrs Mang: Good point.
I think this shitty Friday song is actually a symptom and not a cause. It exists because there's a culture to support it. A culture of over privileged 'tweens' with expendable income willing to invest in an adult fantasies. This is the musical equivalent of child beauty pageants. Ick.
I imagine her obituary will read something like, "gained notoriety for her song "Friday" which was dubbed the "Worst. Song. Ever." in March 2011 until the next "Worst. Song. Ever." came out in May 2011."
Quote from: Doktor Blight on April 01, 2011, 05:23:51 PM
I imagine her obituary will read something like, "gained notoriety for her song "Friday" which was dubbed the "Worst. Song. Ever." in March 2011 until the next "Worst. Song. Ever." came out in May 2011."
:lol:
Obituary? She has to first go through the Teen Sensation ---> "You're supposed to be a role model" ----> Rehab --> Comeback cycle first.
Then she gets to die.
I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die. I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live. Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced. I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing?
T PAIN
(http://khalifafans.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/t-pain.jpg)
Does not approve of your incorrect usage of autotune.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 01, 2011, 06:03:28 PM
I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die. I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live. Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced. I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing?
It won't. Just like doubling the lead vocal was once a revolutionary technique when multi-tracking came out, just like using computerized beats was once sacrilige, just like click tracks and non-linear editing was cheating, all are considered mainstays and pillars of pop music these days.
The hard tune (i.e. "obvious") function may die down, but now that we have the ability to autotune, it will never go away.
Eli August said to me yesterday that while he was at an event this past weekend, he made $50 off of his CDs and shirts over the course of 3 days.
...The guy who said he would staple his dick to his thigh for $50 made that in 30 secs after saying he would do it.
Music is dead. Long live the music.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 01, 2011, 06:03:28 PM
I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die. I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live. Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced. I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing?
Not a robot, but...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI
This do for ya, Rev?
So the Japanese have the technology to create a virtual 3D popstar with a live backing band and yet they lack the skill to wave their glow sticks in time.
Even drunk people waving lighters and yelling 'FREEEEBIRRRRDDDD' have more co-ordination.
Weird.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on April 01, 2011, 06:09:18 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 01, 2011, 06:03:28 PM
I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die. I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live. Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced. I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing?
It won't. Just like doubling the lead vocal was once a revolutionary technique when multi-tracking came out, just like using computerized beats was once sacrilige, just like click tracks and non-linear editing was cheating, all are considered mainstays and pillars of pop music these days.
The hard tune (i.e. "obvious") function may die down, but now that we have the ability to autotune, it will never go away.
i thought sort of it went the other way around, in a way:
producers already used autotune for ages, in order to tune up the popstars that couldn't actually sing (britney spears, madonna--probably not the earlier madonna, but definitely from Ray of Light and onward). but they did it very carefully at first so it was barely noticeable, plus the popstars actually tried to sing in tune, so not much correction was needed.
then came Cher with "Believe (in life after love)" [december 1998], in which the producer used autotune in a very obvious manner, for effect (and he only used it in two or three syllables). the success of that track spawned a huge number of somewhat less subtly used autotune effects, together with the "filterhouse" genre, Cassius and Daft Punk.
after that, the autotune died down a littlebit, actual vocoders gained a bit of ground with more Daft Punk releases and a revival of electro/electro-clash by Anthony Rother and Dave Clarke (in europe, at least) (this is still a couple of years ago).
and then at some point, the autotuner came back with a fucking vengeance. I'm not exactly sure with which song it was, might have been Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1PVmANeyAg) [2008], cause I remember explaining some girl about vocoders and how fucking awesome they are, and a while later she messaged me with this title, asked me "like this?" and I remember thinking "hey yeah, that's pretty cool", which was about the last time I thought autotuners were kinda cool and awesome as vocoders are, because shortly after that they EXPLODED ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE and became really really trite and over-used.
a while after that people on youtube started autotuning politicians and carl sagan, and also being used in non electronic music such as rock groups, and it's all going downhill from there.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on April 01, 2011, 06:09:18 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 01, 2011, 06:03:28 PM
I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die. I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live. Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced. I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing?
It won't. Just like doubling the lead vocal was once a revolutionary technique when multi-tracking came out, just like using computerized beats was once sacrilige, just like click tracks and non-linear editing was cheating, all are considered mainstays and pillars of pop music these days.
The hard tune (i.e. "obvious") function may die down, but now that we have the ability to autotune, it will never go away.
And this is why I will always be a shitty singer in a shitty garage band. :lol:
Vocal effects can be cool, but I think the overabundant use in the industry is triggered by the fact that it's easier to find someone who can act the right way, and fuck the singing, just autotune it, right? The music's mostly shit anyway right. Though in the end, I tend to agree that's it's obviously weirdly subjective and as someone said in another post, noise or noise and rhythm.
I'm still of the opinion that vocoders (as opposed to autotuners) are AWESOME ALWAYS.
And that no amount of over-use can EVER spoil them, EVER.
I DARE the gods of the music industry to try and make the vocoder into a trite and over used effect, DO IT!! DO IT NOW! :fap:
Rock n roll in 2025 will consist entirely of autotuned air horns and giant animatronic reproductive organs.
Mark my words.
Quote from: Triple Zero on April 01, 2011, 11:53:58 PM
I'm still of the opinion that vocoders (as opposed to autotuners) are AWESOME ALWAYS.
And that no amount of over-use can EVER spoil them, EVER.
I DARE the gods of the music industry to try and make the vocoder into a trite and over used effect, DO IT!! DO IT NOW! :fap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
Quote from: Nigel on April 03, 2011, 05:44:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on April 01, 2011, 11:53:58 PM
I'm still of the opinion that vocoders (as opposed to autotuners) are AWESOME ALWAYS.
And that no amount of over-use can EVER spoil them, EVER.
I DARE the gods of the music industry to try and make the vocoder into a trite and over used effect, DO IT!! DO IT NOW! :fap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
You know, I click and watch every time, and the only thing that I ever think.... WHO THE FUCK WROTE THE LYRICS!? A RETARDED ROCK!? ACTUALLY I TAKE THAT BACK. IT'S AN INSULT TO RETARDED ROCKS.
Quote from: Doktor Phox on April 03, 2011, 05:50:18 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 03, 2011, 05:44:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on April 01, 2011, 11:53:58 PM
I'm still of the opinion that vocoders (as opposed to autotuners) are AWESOME ALWAYS.
And that no amount of over-use can EVER spoil them, EVER.
I DARE the gods of the music industry to try and make the vocoder into a trite and over used effect, DO IT!! DO IT NOW! :fap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
You know, I click and watch every time, and the only thing that I ever think.... WHO THE FUCK WROTE THE LYRICS!? A RETARDED ROCK!? ACTUALLY I TAKE THAT BACK. IT'S AN INSULT TO RETARDED ROCKS.
They are THE WORST lyrics. I feel sorry for the little girl, and I am horrified that her parents are letting her ruin her life like this.
Also... WHAT THE HELL IS A 13-YEAR-OLD DOING DRIVING AROUND WITH A BUNCH OF OLDER KIDS AND GOING TO HOUSE PARTIES??? FUUUUUUCK!!
But Nigel, yesterday was THURSDAY!
So, that means...
like...
fuckin'...
TOMORROW IS SATURDAY!
Quote from: Sigmatic on April 03, 2011, 06:16:36 PM
But Nigel, yesterday was THURSDAY!
So, that means...
like...
fuckin'...
TOMORROW IS SATURDAY!
:lulz:
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 01, 2011, 06:03:28 PM
I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die. I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live. Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced. I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing?
What I want to know is when the damned loudness wars are going to end. There's a lot of theoretically really good music out there right now that I simply can't listen to because its constantly peaked and I can't deal with the ear fatigue for even one song, and ear fatigue aside, it's just flat out not as good as if they'd go back to old mixing practices (hell the entire reason vinyl got a reputation as being better sound quality than CDs is that you can't do the loudness wars on vinyl).
Quote from: Nigel on April 03, 2011, 06:14:44 PM
Also... WHAT THE HELL IS A 13-YEAR-OLD DOING DRIVING AROUND WITH A BUNCH OF OLDER KIDS AND GOING TO HOUSE PARTIES??? FUUUUUUCK!!
IKNORITE!!?
Quote from: Sigmatic on April 03, 2011, 06:16:36 PM
But Nigel, yesterday was THURSDAY!
So, that means...
like...
fuckin'...
TOMORROW IS SATURDAY!
:lulz:
FUN FUN FUN
Also agree with Requia here, artificial loudness is absurd and bad. If I like it, I'll turn it up myself thanks.
Stephen Colbert sings "Friday" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU1v_XKgEPc)
Quote from: Laughin Jude on April 03, 2011, 07:17:09 PM
Stephen Colbert sings "Friday" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU1v_XKgEPc)
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Damn you, NBC...
What is this? I don't even fucking.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 31, 2011, 03:34:17 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
I couldn't make it past the 10 second mark.
My son was watching some awards show on the teevee and shit like this came on. Dad had to ask WTF was that? Was it music?
(luckily my son wasn't sure either.)
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 01, 2011, 06:03:28 PM
I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die. I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live. Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced. I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing?
I have seen the future! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=canHzCiWoKI&)
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on April 03, 2011, 09:41:09 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 01, 2011, 06:03:28 PM
I'm just wondering when this whole auto-tune thing is going to die. I remember back in the 80s when artists got shit for lip-syncing at performances instead of playing live. Now, every other pop star-let has their vocal chords digitally enhanced. I mean, fuck, if we are going to have robotic singing can't we at least have real robots doing the singing?
I have seen the future! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=canHzCiWoKI&)
What have they done to that poor fleshlight?
Quote from: Nigel on April 03, 2011, 05:44:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on April 01, 2011, 11:53:58 PM
I'm still of the opinion that vocoders (as opposed to autotuners) are AWESOME ALWAYS.
And that no amount of over-use can EVER spoil them, EVER.
I DARE the gods of the music industry to try and make the vocoder into a trite and over used effect, DO IT!! DO IT NOW! :fap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
That's an autotuner, not a vocoder.
Autotuner is when you pitch-bend a human's voice so that it is in tune with the music, and applying it "too much" makes for the effect that is being (ab)used in contemporary pop music. Also see my story two posts back ITT.
A vocoder is a different effect. It electronically separates the human voice into the plain buzzing sound of the vocal cords, and the way it is altered (filtered) by the vocal tract, throat and mouth. Then it replaces the buzzing sound with a synthesizer buzz* and alters (filters) it in the same way as the vocal tract/throat/mouth would have. The result is a robot-like voice, because it removes (replaces) all of the intonation. But it still sounds very much like a voice and is reasonably clear to understand because the most important parts of forming syllables and words are done with the filtering in the vocal tract/throat/mouth and not so much the vocal cords.
This is a typical vocoder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXTZOSWIUU (ja tvoi sluga, ja tvoi robotnik!!)
This is a also vocoder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmoFNya6P4Q
Vocoders are similar to autotuners in that they also allow to control the pitch perfectly in tune, but in the case of vocoders, that's just because the pitch is determined by the synthesizer buzz, so it's always accurate. It still removes all the intonation of the voice, though.
*any harmonically rich sound will do, actually. Near the end of Daft Punk's
harder better faster stronger they use an electric guitar, for instance.