Before auto tune you needed a church choir



    by Alphaxfusion

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    1. That was full on religious experience at the time. And I’m a white guy from a middle class family in rural America.

    2. DangerousDisplay7664 on

      This has nothing to do with a church choir, it’s that one can sing and the other one can’t.

    3. Nothing to do with auto tune.

      This was quite literally the first ever single i bought, it was on cassette tape. We didnt have a CD player like my fancy friend did.

      I wonder if its still lying around somewhere because my son and daughter aren’t going to have a clue what these things are

    4. Thing about this song particulular it has no profanity and it isnt lame. Very hard to do in rap without sounding corny

    5. The addition of a church choir to “Gangster’s Paradise” has nothing to do with “auto-tune” its an intentional artistic choice in a song about young men destroying their lives and dying because they feel they have no other choice.

      Otherwise if you knew fucking anything about audio production you would know the same effect could be achieved with basic editing, sampling, and layering technology and technique that goes as far back as the 1920s.

      Beyond that I doubt you even know what auto-tune is or how it actually works. Becuase believe it or not, not every voice effect is auto-tune. Vocoders date back to the 1930s.

    6. Is it wrong that I’m waiting for “I churned butter once or twice, Livin’ in an Amish paradise…”

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