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Cher Says The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Can Go Fuck Itself
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this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
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Cher has been around decades before auto-tune even existed.
What!? You mean she was a singer prior to 1998!?
Nothing existed before The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
Him hitting the table caused the Big Bang!
Is MetaStatic ShittyMorph??
Technically, if you count her big break as the alarm clock song from Groundhog Day.
Sure but the article specifically mentions autotune being a Cher first thing.
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
It wasn't a vocoder in Believe but they did lie and say it was initially to keep it a trade secret.
My friend auto tune did not exist in 1965 yet she still topped the 100 billard chart. She can more then carry a tune. Don't diminish skill because you don't like her style.
Maybe read the article first.
I did. Did I miss something specifically? This posturing is not helpful to your point. No wants to believe a jackass even if they are right.
Hey - me again.
I didn't mean to be a jackass, I was just skimming through and yours was the second comment I saw along the same line of thought within minutes, which is why I gave a curt response. I realize now that the comments were so close together that you probably didn't even see the first one.
All that to say - sorry for being a dick, I just wanted to highlight that OC was arguing the autotune thing, not the whole article (or the headline).
That was one point the article brought up, not exactly her sole claim to (rock) fame.
It's a pretty big claim she's making. I think that's why OC is refuting it.
"Refute" implies that they successfully argued their case, which they haven't.
No it doesn't.
Cher wasn't the first to use Auto-tune; she was the first to use it to intentionally distort vocals as an artistic choice rather than for minor pitch corrections.