The New Music Revolution ''Photoshopped Music" !
By bluesinjid
@bluesinjid (658)
Canada
July 26, 2009 4:37pm CST
You might be very confused and surprised as you read my title. What in the world do you mean by revolution in music and Photoshopping it? Well this is my own way of saying that the music industry has changed so dramatically in these last year, and most notably in this century.
Music is so different now that songs get 'old' very quickly sooner and sooner. We tend to listen to popular songs or 'pop songs', because they have such a catchy tune or phrase. No one could forget the Soulja Boy craze and his signature dance moves, or even break though artist today Katy Perry, with the song 'I kissed a girl'.
Haven't we notice today that going to a live concert or an award show where all the best musicians sing sound so bad? Well, it's because their studio version of their voice was edited so much, you could barely know it was them. This is standard in any industry but it has been taken to a new extreme this century, most notably by T-Pain.
This new kind of music can now be referred to as 'Autotune', or another type of editing that goes beyond the studio. What it is is basically automatically changing the tune and pitch of a singers voice, correcting it automatically so it sounds perfect.This all is good, except everyone will know you suck at singing when you have to sing live.
Now, people have invented 'Autotune' on the go, which means that their voice is changed at a live performance too, so you think he can actually sing like that! This has not caught on as much as artist make enough money with their 'photoshop voices'.
Almost all the singers have used autotune, with T-pain, Flo Rida, Kanye West, Chris Brown , Rihanna, etc.
What is your take on this new type of music where they don't even have the capability to make the pitch and tune? ( P.S some singers refuse to use autotune and have very nice voices, but the majority of hit songs use it)
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@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
27 Jul 09
Being a musician myself I find it pretty sad. I am familiar with "autotune", put out by a company named Antares. They also produce a few other software "plugins" for vocal work. I have them in my computer based studio actually. But they weren't designed to be used the way they are. they were for correcting minor glitches and such.
As for myself, I can't sing and I don't pretend I can. I have been told I have agood voice, but I have a hard time believing it. I know I am a pretty acomplished guitar palyer and I don't need electronics to make me sound like I can play. I do it with hard work, practice and dedication. That is the difference between an artists and a poser.
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@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
20 Sep 09
One of my favorite bands, Kill Hannah, just finished an album, which comes out in two weeks, called Wake Up the Sleepers. They are saying exactly what you are saying, through that title, that the music industry is in a downward spiral. Although I have to thank the industry, in a way, for allowing such mediocrity to prevail. If it weren't for the insane success of garbage on the radio, Kill Hannah's singer, Mat Devine, would have thrown in the towel years ago and I wouldn't have their amazing music to get me through.
Wow. That sounded like a commercial. I didn't mean for it to, but I was actually thinking about this earlier and how there are still some artists, like Kill Hannah, who have earned the trust and respect required of their labels, and of their fans, to allow them to do their own thing. Their live show is incredible, their albums are consistently good and they are basically left alone to create because they have spent the last 10+ years building a reputation with the industry and with their fans.
I see the music industry of late as a sort of assembly line where the Soulja Boys and the Rhiannas are molded and formed in a factory and, like you said, "Photoshopped" into something commercial and current and when they are no longer what the public wants they will either be swept under the rug or they will be molded into the new trend. The passion and ambition seems to be lost from a depressingly vast majority of today's radio friendly tuneage which renders it completely forgettable. While I am still listening to and loving (as I type this, literally) Little Red Corvette, 25-ish years after it was released, I cannot imagine anyone listening to Superman in another 25 years and appreciating how terrific it is/was.
