Listen to Michael Jackson’s real voice with no auto tune from 1988
by raspinberry
Listen to Michael Jackson’s real voice with no auto tune from 1988
by raspinberry
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No one in 1988 was using auto tune. Not until the mid to late 90s.
Loved him. No one can copy of what he’s doing. Not even close.
One of my regrets is not going to see Michael in concert.
Auto tune wasn’t even invented until a decade after the Bad album came out.
He is a legend!
We didn’t call him the King of Pop for nothing.
Auto Tune was not invented until 1998.
I knew it was going to give me full body chill before I even turned the volume up off of mute
Autotune removes the beauty of the flaws and fluctuations of the human voice. Humans don’t respond positively to perfection. All of art history has shown us this. A voice that is perfect in tune and in pitch every moment is a voice that isn’t human. It’s the humanity in a voice that we connect with. In my opinion it removes all the humanity from a singer.
I remember this performance. 1988 Grammys. It was an extraordinarily powerful performance with an undeniable message.
This is 1988, Cher hasn’t even invented autotune yet
That’s how I remember hearing the song when it first came out.
A lot of songs hit really hard exactly because the singers voice crispy clipped at certain words. Autotune makes everything mushy.
This is an amazing vocal, but it’s directly from the album, not from live performance
Isolated vocals before auto tune was a thing.
Autotune?
Some people were put on this planet to design buildings, write. This man was here to sing.
Everyone pointing out that autotune wasn’t invented until way after this recording, but I don’t think that’s the point OP is making. Probably half the artists that exist right now wouldn’t be known if it weren’t for autotune and other producer magic.
Will never see the like of him again.
Soo, it’s just the acappella put on top of a live clip? Wut?
I mean at a record production level absolutely there was vocal correction happening back then and even live shows they would sing over a backing track.
This is stupid… it’s just the voice without the rest, auto tune doesn’t exist back then…
Cool to see this. There’s not as much footage of Michael Jackson singing live as you might think, because he lip-synced most of his performances due to all the dancing he did. That’s not a knock on MJ, it’s just really difficult to sing well and have good breath control when you’re dancing like crazy.
He’s lip synching here actually. He was known for splicing MANY, MANY takes together to get the vocal he wanted on the record. Watch the recording of Jam and the monotony. There’s no way this was sung live.
Look at when he says, “dream”…… and “you seeeeee” he moves his head side to side but keeps the mic where it is and there’s no variance in the signal. It shouldn’t sound this good. And when he jumps up and down….. that affects his diaphragm pressure and you’d be able to hear that. Total studio vocal, possibly a scratch track vocal.
Yeah right… now show us Michael doing the moonwalk with no motion capture cg animation
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There was no autotune in 1988, dumbass.
Actual talent.
What a beautiful and unique voice he had/was.
A capella?
Sounds like Michael Jackson. What am I missing?
Sir, Michael Jackson’s voice was never auto tuned. lol wtf child
Auto Tune? I think you mean a cappella. MJ never auto-tuned a song.
Michael Jackson really learned to sing, with some violent help of his father for every mistake on scene. He could beautiful sing. Britney would be ashamed to death, without autotune…
If you can’t sing in tune without autotune you shouldn’t be a professional singer.
Auto-Tune is audio processor software released on September 19, 1997, by the American company Antares Audio Technologies. Followed by German developer Celemony’s Melodyne in 2001, however Melodyne did not automatically correct pitch variation, it had to be manually tuned. In 2009, the producer Rick Rubin wrote that “Right now, if you listen to pop, everything is in perfect pitch, perfect time and perfect tune. That’s how ubiquitous Auto-Tune is.”
This is literally how I always remembered and heard MJs voice
… autotune didn’t exist…… jesus christ this younger generation…..