The problem in music is FAR WORSE than most people know.
Almost every modern popular recording has had the lead vocal pitch-corrected and/or auto-tuned. It is done with modern digital software. You are not hearing an authentic singer as the recording microphone actually delivered the raw performance to the recorder.
In fact, many vintage, live concert recordings of bands and singers have had the vocals “corrected” long after the live performance. You are not hearing the singer(s) on youtube as the concert audience heard them on the night.
I could name popular singers today who cannot carry a tune in a bucket. Without the fraud of “tuning,” you might NEVER listen to their recordings.
What is coming are artificial intelligence manipulations that create a singer’s voice not delivered by any human being. There will not be a need for any living, breathing singer.
The human voice is inherently imperfect because each person’s singing is unique. Some singers are better with pitch than others but NO SINGER IS MACHINE-PERFECT.
Many singers have a vocal vibrato that creates a pleasing sound moving slightly above and below the actual pitch of the note attempted. This vibrato is a compensation for imperfections of the human voice.
One terrible result is young, aspiring singers hear a recorded performance and are devastated that they simply do not have a voice good enough to sing the same song as perfectly as the celeb singer. The original singer DOES NOT HAVE THAT ABILITY EITHER. It’s fake.
We should insist on authentic performance with human emotion and embrace the human voice as God has gifted each singer.
If you wonder why today’s music is GARBAGE, it is being created by SKYNET !!!
Even tempo today is usually machine-created with a “click” track precise as to beats-per-minute. Many of our greatest, older popular songs had variations in tempo because a human drummer kept the time throughout the song.
Like almost everything in our modern world, music is becoming just another massive fraud.
to me, auto-tune makes all the female so-called “singers” sound exactly the same: BORING ...
Good explanation. There is a LOT of GARBAGE out there.