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Would modern pop music be better if....
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Norman Potting
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Vocoder isn't the same as autotune, and I like Mr Blue Sky.
Norman Potting
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And in Peter Frampton's "Show Me The Way". But the track that started it all was surely that mainstay of Junior Choice for many years, "Sparky's Magic Piano".
AmexRuislip
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Still a great track though
A few people still talking bollox in what might as well be Swahili......gabble on, gabblemeisters......
Modern pop music be better if people just enjoyed it for what it is and didn't analyse the shit out of it.
A week would be better.
studio150
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The case against autotune - Katie Price
That should be case closed.
That should be case closed.
daveinprague
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We are currently discussing this in a bar. It was decided that music now is shit. Most parties play old school rnb and soul in my circle. I'm sure younger people like the new stuff, but not sure myself
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
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Or if it wasn't shit.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
Sitting here with my 26 year old son who is visiting and it's Funkadelic and some cool jazz. His music of choice but from my era
OzMike
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All of my kids listen to my old stuff, they also think today's music is crap.
A few people still talking bollox in what might as well be Swahili......gabble on, gabblemeisters......
Can't beat the old stuff from the old West Country...........
https://youtu.be/btEpF334Rtc
This. In spades
I'm guessing the OP is moaning about its "extreme" use as an instrument, e.g. like that Cher song, as opposed to it's intended use. And if you don't like it move on to something else; there's plenty out there and no point hanging around.
We are currently discussing this in a bar. It was decided that music now is shit. Most parties play old school rnb and soul in my circle. I'm sure younger people like the new stuff, but not sure myself
Agree that music now is shit but when you talk about old school rnb do you mean rhythm and blues a la John Mayall/Eric Clapton etc or do you mean the meaningless pap that all crap modern 'singers' and manufactured bands call rnb, presumably to try and attach some cred to what they are churning out? The former is superb. The world would be a better place without what is labelled as rnb these days. In my opinion like....
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Once again, I agree, judicious use of technology is not the problem, it is the extreme use that is. I would bin it simply as that manufactured sound is so popular and so irritating.
boik
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It's effectively the same. Pitch shifting to match a reference pitch. On the vocoder the reference is manually played on a keyboard but the effect is the same - horrible!
But it clearly isn't "irritating" to many others. Listeners of this "popular and so irritating" music have their reasons for liking it just as me and you do for our audio choices. They probably differ but also may overlap. No one is right or wrong. And music doesn't invade your life like many other things do. If you want to avoid Ed Sheeran you can.....so no point kicking against it imho. Just listen to what you like and don't worry about the stuff you don't.