(Friends with Benefits) We Still Mean It: Autotune and Effort

When you listen to T-Pain, Cher, or any of the thousands of musicians with requisite software and computing skills,* and their thin, perfect sheets of Auto-Tuned melody spill from your speakers, one of the first things you do, without realizing and without the ability to stop yourself even if you wanted to, is imagine what kind of animal—what kind of human is making that noise? Your pre-conscious mind notices that the vocalist approximates human emotion, but does so effortlessly, executin...

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