The Problem with Autotune on TikTok

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Giving theatre kids auto-tune is like giving cocaine to their agent.

more importantly, why do singers climb on everything like cats?

The fact that people are lying saying they’re not using it is what kills me. Pitch correction in itself is not the issue, but lying to people without a trained ear that you aren’t pre-recording, pitch correcting, and then lip-syncing to your pre-recorded audio is CRAZY.

When they sound like studio recording quality without a mic in sight, it’s a give away.

The fact that they move so freakin much and their voice doesn't shift whatsoever is proof. Professional singers who dance and sing or move around can't be that perfect.

The main thing with the kitchen one for me is that when you sing in the kitchen, the room just doesn't sound like that. The reverb and the echo in a kitchen is way different to the studio style sound that accompanies them

For me, the harmonies sound uncanny. Too perfect. Even trained musicians have a slight waver to one side or the other, and this just sounds to perfect.

The reason we "can tell", is because we expect slight incorrections but don't get any. It's the same reason many people easily see double spaces in texts because you just expect single spaces - just reverse.

This whole perfect pitch thing makes no cents.

Its not that they are using it, its that they are pretending not to, which makes young and learning artists feel incompetent because they dont sound as perfect as these people posting their "unedited" singing

I take singing lessons for a half year now and videos like this make me really insecure even tho my coach says my voice is pretty good.. Videos like this made me think of quitting, my stupid ass never considered that all this is fake... Actually opens my eyes more and motivates me to continue what makes me happy :) ❤️

It’s not just vocalists, but drummers, bass players, guitarists etc. Sooo many social media musicians are just miming and no one talks about it. For me, it’s the same as claiming to speed run a game but actually splicing multiple videos together.

"I dont use pitch correction" i do, but her name is Helen and she's my voice coach banging the same piano note over and over again until i cry

That girl and guy climbing on the counter top is wild. Like you can tell that they're lipsyncing cause if they weren't you would've heard them climbing on the counter top. Also the woman wouldn't have been able to hit those high notes in real life crouched down on the counter top the way she was like that's such bad posture when singing.

autotune vocals sound so emotionless because the slight variation in vibrations of the voice adds so much emotion to it

Justice for the imprisoned piano guy!

you hit such a good point on the fact that people dont really "hate" the practice of autotune but more the incorrect use of it.

Autotune for new singers feels exactly like photoshopped body for teenagers. We think it’s the reality, we get low self esteem because we can’t reach the unreachable.

I once saw a YT short where this woman dueted this guy and they sung that song that's like "oh when the saints come marching in~" (idk the actual song name) and her voice was so very obviously pitch corrected to get the note jumps, but everyone in the comments was like "oh em gee she's so talented and has so much voice control!!" And all of the people who were like "hey wait this is literally 0 cents perfect which isn't possible esp at those vocal jumps, this is pitch corrected" got totally dogged on. It was so sad. Thank you for shedding light on this issue!