Lady Gaga gets bitchy, snubs Weird Al

[jimmy olsen]

I'm old enough to remember Madonna. I think Lady Gaga has a better voice autotuner.

I think she sounds even better live than recorded.

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm old enough to remember Madonna. I think Lady Gaga has a better voice autotuner.

It's become hard to tell whether people are using the autotune because they need it or because they just want to sound like Rihanna. It's part fad.

[MadImmortalMan]

I think she sounds even better live than recorded.

Doesn't mean it's not autotuned.

[jimmy olsen]

I think she sounds even better live than recorded.

Doesn't mean it's not autotuned.

Maybe I don't understand what autotuned means?

[DontSayBanana]

Maybe I don't understand what autotuned means?

I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't think Cal does, either.  Autotuning isn't the same as "pitch correction" (which, 9 times out of 10, doesn't work).  It's basically a more sophisticated cousin to vocoding.  With both autotuning and vocoding, you would play a similar melody to the vocal line on a synth or some other instrument, but while vocoding blends the carrier and mod waveforms, autotuning drops the carrier and just applies the pitch to the mod- usually, it means you're hearing keyboard notes from a human voice.

Madonna hasn't actually been autotuning all that long- the first time I heard her do it was when she did the opening song for that abomination of a James Bond movie, Die Another Day.

[Admiral Yi]

Can anyone here repeat Bananarama's post in English?

[DontSayBanana]

Can anyone here repeat Bananarama's post in English?

TRANSLATION: "Autotuning" isn't a magic "sing on key" button, as some people seem to believe.  I don't know of any production techniques that will "fix" noticeably flat vocals without sounding really electronic.

[jimmy olsen]

Can anyone here repeat Bananarama's post in English?

Nice to know I wasn't the only one who was confused by that.

[garbon]

Who listens to Weird Al these days?

[Razgovory]

Who listens to Weird Al these days?

Likely people in the future when he releases more parodies, long after Gaga ODs on cocaine.

[garbon]

Who listens to Weird Al these days?

Likely people in the future when he releases more parodies, long after Gaga ODs on cocaine.

Oh just found out his last album was 5 years ago. So it turns out that no one has been listening to him.

[Ideologue]

Gaga's pretty all right, with a fair number of great songs, which makes her a standout in the anemic wasteland of current popular music.  Her persona and some of her songs highly reminiscent of Madonna, of course, but it strikes me as intentional homage, and even if you do want to characterize her act as a ripoff, at least it's a ripoff of talent rather than being originally terrible.

(Bad Romance is, of course, a simply spectacular song.)

Of course, she go fuck herself with a loaded firearm for wearing a meat dress.  So very uncool.

Also, Yankovic is usually very funny, with a fantastic back catalogue of songs that are admittedly cheap but either simply funny or, as in the case of "Perform This Way," rather decent satire.  He also seems like a really great guy.  Finally, his RiffTrax of Jurassic Park with Mike Nelson was hilarious.

[jimmy olsen]

Who listens to Weird Al these days?

He's done some of his best material in the last decade. White & Nerdy and Craigslist were fucking brilliant. 

EDIT: Craigslist was released after his last album in 2009.

[Syt]

Who listens to Weird Al these days?

Likely people in the future when he releases more parodies, long after Gaga ODs on cocaine.

Oh just found out his last album was 5 years ago. So it turns out that no one has been listening to him.

I listen to his polka medleys when I need cheering up.

[Eddie Teach]

Of course, she go fuck herself with a loaded firearm for wearing a meat dress.  So very uncool.

^ This is why that was funny.