To be fair to Paris Hilton, in that same way that she has no other discernable talents beyond basic stuff like walking and talking and breathing air, nobody expected her to be able to sing either. If there’s one thing that Jason Derulo loves more than singing his own name as a sort of narcissistic audio ident – and above there’s a 57-minute-long YouTube compilation of clips of him doing that if you require proof – then it’s slathering his voice in Auto-Tune. Cher meanwhile strode off into the sunset to later become an unlikely septuagenarian Twitter badass and star of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, seemingly uncaring as to the dark forces she had unleashed.ĭo you believe in life for music after Auto-Tune, or do you really not think you’re strong enough? Decide by perusing this helpful list of Auto-Tune lows and highs. Other, less disingenuous, artists saw potential to use it to manipulate their voice in unusual ways, to sometimes cool and to sometimes toe-curling effect. Suddenly singers who had never in their lives been in so much as the same postcode as the correct key could, with liberal applications of this extraordinary vocal Viagra, range freely and wildly through the scales like a kind of robot Whitney Houston on heat.
With the weird digitised warblings of a singer who sounded like she’d swallowed a dial-up modem, it was exactly 20 years ago this month that Cher and her song Believe opened the fresh hell of Auto-Tune upon music, and nothing has been quite the same since.
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