Here's a piece I wrote for Pitchfork about 20 years of Auto-Tune - and the whole related realm of pitch-correction and "vocal design" technologies. It spans from from Cher's "Believe" to Migos's "Slippery," via Britney, Kanye, Ke$ha, Keef, Flavour N'abania, Man like Nayvadius, and more. Detractors dispatched; digital existence dissected; defining sound of the 21st Century delineated.
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Showing posts with label KE$HA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KE$HA. Show all posts
Monday, September 17, 2018
Futuremania
Labels:
AFROBEATS,
AUTO-TUNE,
CHIEF KEEF,
DIGITAL,
KE$HA,
MELODYNE,
MIGOS,
TRAP,
VOCAL DESIGN
Sunday, November 25, 2012
In today's New York Times, my profile of Ke$ha.
Not that you can actually use the name Ke$ha in a NYT piece on Ke$ha. You have say Kesha.
Other expressions you can't use in a NYT piece on Ke$ha (or indeed in a piece on anything) are "badass", "cock rock", "cock pop", and "balls over dance beats". (That last one, I didn't even try to get in there).
Not that you can actually use the name Ke$ha in a NYT piece on Ke$ha. You have say Kesha.
Other expressions you can't use in a NYT piece on Ke$ha (or indeed in a piece on anything) are "badass", "cock rock", "cock pop", and "balls over dance beats". (That last one, I didn't even try to get in there).
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