Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect
In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot of pop vocals suddenly sound great. Better than great: note- and pitch-perfect, as if there’s been an unspoken tightening of standards at record labels or an evolutionary leap in the development of vocal cords.
While it can be used to great effect (see “Woods” on Bon Iver’s Blood Bank EP), I think Auto-Tune is finding wider acceptance in taking the imperfect, human element out of music. And that sucks.
