Who is your favorite popular music artist? Lady Gaga (she's mine!), Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber (I hate him.)? Well chances are, your favorite music artist uses audio editing software to make their songs sound better. These programs alter the singers' voices to erase any flaws or mishaps in their singing. So now, everything is skewed. Are we listening to the actual artists? Or are we listening to their studios? Maybe the music industry has just become a competition between the editing softwares of all the artists rather than the actual voices of the artists themselves. Why do they all use Auto-Tune? Yes it makes them sound better. But doesn't it make them superficial? Why don't we just listen to a robot? I'm sure there will be program out some day that allows one to choose the notes of the song and one can literally SPEAK the words and the program alters the pitch of the singer to make it sound they are singing perfectly without sounding like a robot. What will we do if this happens? Embrace it and indulge in it as we have to technology in the past? Or will we reject it and enjoy REAL music with REAL voices.
Auto-Tune takes away the authenticity of music. Some of those who are famous for being music artists cannot really even sing! Miley Cyrus was only made popular because of her father and her fame from the show Hannah Montana. SHE HAS A RASPY MAN VOICE! I have seen videos of Selena Gomez singing live in the studio and it is not pretty. Check out my Multimodal Project to see the effects of Auto-Tune. True artists true talent is diminished because of editing softwares such as Auto-Tune. For example, Lady Gaga is a BRILLIANT artist, but several people think she is just famous because of catchy beats and edited singing. Go watch a video on YouTube in which Gaga sings acoustically! OR go watch the talent show video of Stephanie Germanotta, now known as Lady Gaga. She is a true artist but people undermine her talent by saying she is not a true artist because she uses voice editing software. She doesn't need it, but I think she only uses it to keep up with the other "artists"; everyone needs to make money, and society today seems to like Auto-Tune and the like.
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