DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - ROCKERS CALL FOR AUTO-TUNE BAN

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ROCKERS CALL FOR AUTO-TUNE BAN

American rockers DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE are the latest musicians to criticise KANYE WEST's use of Auto-Tune - they're launching a campaign to have the controversial technology banned.West is one of a number of musicians who rely on Auto-Tune to help improve their vocals and it features heavily on his latest album, 808s & Heartbreak.
But Death Cab for Cutie argue it is killing the art of singing and want it outlawed.
The group wore blue ribbons to the Grammy Awards on Sunday (08Feb09), to highlight the their campaign, 'Auto-Tune abuse in music'.
Frontman Ben Gibbard says, "Auto-Tuning is a digital manipulation, a correction of a singer's voice that is affecting literally thousands of singers today and thousands of records that are coming out. So we just want to raise awareness while we're here and try to bring back the blue note... The note that's not so perfectly in pitch and just gives the recording some soul and some kind of real character. It's how people really sing."

10 February 2009 19:02

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SethX9 (2)

posted on 12/02/2009 13:50

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It's the entertainment business. This isn't an overly complicated concept. People chose their own entertainment from businesses. Bitching about how technology pollutes the purity of blabbity blah blah ... Oh piss off! Maybe recorded music should be banned because, hey, that's not a real live performance. Or maybe amplifiers and PA systems should be banned because, hey, that's not what your guitar and your voice really sound like. What a petty s**t this guy is.

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Anonydiva ( 1)

posted on 11/02/2009 19:26

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Oh HELL Yeah - these people who can't even carry a pitch deserve to be outed for their total lack of talent. If you can't sing, you should not be wasting my ear time. Straight up! And, furthermore, Cher's "Do You Believe" may have been groundbreaking in the 90's - so can we lose the nasally roboto-like tone already!?!?