What the History of Autotune Tells Us About the Future of AI
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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The Anti-Auto-Tune Sentiment
Auto tune is so commonplace that most people don't even know they're hearing songs that have been pitch corrected by auto tune when they hear it. The taste for these effects and the revulsion against them are part of the same syndrome reflecting a deeply conflicted confusion in our desires simultaneously craving the real and the true while continuing to be seduced by digital's perfection. Kate Bush has said that the song is a critique about our relationship with technology saying this is about people well about the modern situation where more and more people are having less and less contact with human beings we spend all day with machines all night with machines you know all day you're on the phone and all night you're watching the telly
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