Alexis Petridis on singing out of tune

'Singing out of tune can convey emotions that being in tune can't'One of the weirder side effects of watching The X Factor is that I've started to think singing in tune is hugely overrated. It's a central tenet of the show that singers should be note-perfect, the ideal being the melisma-heavy, high-octane style practised by R&B vocalists, who are all talent and no taste. I suspect at least 250,000 people agree with me: that's how many people bought the debut album by La Roux, whose trademark fal...

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