#Autotune effect stack software#

Fix a little backing harmony here, bump a flat note up to diva-worthy heights there: smooth everything over so that it’s perfect. But the diss isn’t fair, because everybody’s using it.įor every T-Pain - the R&B artist who uses Auto-Tune as an over-the-top aesthetic choice - there are 100 artists who are Auto-Tuned in subtler ways. Since rising to fame as the weird techno-warble effect in the chorus of Cher’s 1998 song, “Believe,” Auto-Tune has become bitchy shorthand for saying somebody can’t sing. So much for showing the world the authentic Ke$ha. “She may be able to sing, but she or the producer chose to put her voice through Auto-Tune or a similar plug-in as an aesthetic choice.”

#Autotune effect stack software#

“That’s pitch correction software for sure,” wrote Drew Waters, Head of Studio Operations at Capitol Records, in an email. Warrior starts with a shredding electrical static noise, then comes her voice, sounding like what the Guardian called “a robo squawk devoid of all emotion.” “No, I got, like, bummed out when I heard that,” said Sebert, sadly.

“People think they’ve heard the Auto-Tune, they’ve heard the dance hits, but you really have a great voice, too,” said Guthrie, helpfully.

“Absolutely,” Sebert said, gripping the mic nervously in her fingerless black gloves. “Was it really important to let your voice to be heard?” asked the host, Savannah Guthrie. She was there to promote her new album, Warrior, which was supposed to reveal the authentic her. Yet this past November on the Today Show, the 25-year old Sebert looked vulnerable, standing awkwardly in her skimpy purple, gold, and green unitard. Sebert, whose label did not respond to a request for an interview, has built a persona as a badass wastoid, who told Rolling Stone that all male visitors to her tour bus had to submit to being photographed with their pants down.

Much of her sound is due to the pitch correction software, Auto-Tune. Her style is electro pop-y dance music: she alternates between rapping and singing, the choruses of her songs are typically melodic party hooks that bore deep into your brain: “Your love, your love, your love, is my drug!” And at times, her voice is so heavily processed that it sounds like a cross between a girl and a synthesizer. In January of 2010, Kesha Sebert, known as ‘Ke$ha’ debuted at number one on Billboard with her album, Animal.