There's a thing Martin Luther King Jr said, that's partially quotedHere, and I apologize for the source, but I'm a busy bee this morning and that's the first link I could find that covered it.

Anyway, the point being is that this guy personifies exactly what MLK was saying. Outwardly an American liberal (which isn't really the same thing that everyone everywhere uses the word liberal for, hence the specification). On the surface, he's all for the typical ideas of equality and humanity that the word liberal is supposed to cover. But underneath, he convinces himself he's not racist or sexist because he's willing to vote and speak around those ideas.

But, in practice, he's internalized the same patriarchal, bigoted fallacies as many other people do. Mind you, it is difficult to abandon the sense of superiority that thinking you're open minded gives you long enough to actually examine yourself. And it's his arrogance that makes it unlikely he'll ever do the kind of self examination necessary to police himself enough to try and change.

That arrogance was reinforced by the power he held.

I mean, I don't hate the guy. For one, hating some random stranger is a waste of energy. But he isn't unique in his failings. Damn near every human on the planet fails at the kind of self examination necessary to see themselves as flawed. Even the best efforts can fail because it's just so damn hard to look at yourself and divorce that view from your own inner thoughts and motivations. Being objective about the self is hard. Even when someone knows all of that, actually pulling off that objectivity is a long road filled with potholes. I know I sure as fuck fail at it often.

I just wish he be an outlier than a norm.

Did you just ”Oh, you're right. And when you're right, you're right” yourself?

I'm fully aware of vocoders and talk boxes, that both work completely differently from pitch correction. The reason why people trace the roots of exaggerated pitch correction to Cher is because her song was the first (popular) one that sounded like exaggerated pitch correction and not like a vocoder or talk box. Most audio engineers I know doubt the claims that they used vocoders, but again who knows.

And T-Pain is awesome, so thanks, Cher!

(His cover of War Pigs from last year was pretty sweet.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToNfGuXbJoc

And wasn't it the producer who did the cranking uppa? She just gave the thumbs up. She didn't even write a single note on that track.

That would be a fair assumption, but very incorrect these days.

It's become a joke that they leave out talented rock musicians and induct popular country, pop, and rap artists now.