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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cher has been around decades before auto-tune even existed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What!? You mean she was a singer prior to 1998!?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing existed before The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is MetaStatic ShittyMorph??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Him hitting the table caused the Big Bang!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Technically, if you count her big break as the alarm clock song from Groundhog Day.

[–] Earthwormjim91 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure but the article specifically mentions autotune being a Cher first thing.

The ubiquitous robotic Auto-Tune effect? Cher did that first.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Motherfuckers never heard of a vocoder before.

Also it’s hilarious that other motherfuckers think that auto tune effect was supposed to hide imperfections in her singing and not be a blatant and intentional vocal effect.

“Believe” is a cheesy ass tune, tho

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It wasn't a vocoder in Believe but they did lie and say it was initially to keep it a trade secret.