I was listening to Taylor Swift yesterday - Everything Has Changed from her new version of the album. There’s this bit in the bridge at about 2:30 where the backgrounds do this “haaaa, ahhhh, ahhhh” thing that’s so wonderfully out of tune and everybody involved in the making of this album had the courage to leave it.
Nobody does that anymore. I started thinking about how auto-tune has really enabled the elimination of musical talent as a condition for creating music, and made it that much easier to just create pure product with no musical value at all.
Get off my lawn.