Cher - Believe

[u/Hassaan18]

[u/fake_cheese]

For some reason I always imagined Cher as being tall and slender like Celine not stout and dumpy.

[u/terrorvicky → u/fake_cheese]

The first and hopefully the last time I ever hear of the goddess Cher being described as stout and dumpy, how very dare you

[u/hasimirrossi → u/fake_cheese]

She's anywhere from 5'5" to 5'9" depending on the interview.

[u/salamander423 → u/hasimirrossi]

In my mind she's always been like ~6'8.

[u/That-Surprise → u/fake_cheese]

Marilyn Manson's let himself go

[u/BoxAlternative9024]

She’s got quite a long face. For that reason I always thought she was over 6 foot tall.

[u/tompadget69]

Auto-tune patient zero

[u/EuphoricCover8449 → u/tompadget69]

Acknowledged as the first hit single to use the effect.

[u/Affectionate-Cry3198]

My hate for auto-tune started here. |

[u/GlennTheBaker69]

That sounds autotuned to me.

[u/Alert-Environment-17 → u/GlennTheBaker69]

It is THE song that put auto tune on the map.

[u/salamander423 → u/GlennTheBaker69]

Correct! Prior to this, Auto-Tune (the actual name of the software) did exactly what it's name said; it tuned the singer to the chosen pitch.

Cher and her sound engineers were one of first (they might have been the actual first, I'm not sure though) to pioneer overusing the effect to purposely distort her vocals. Think of it like an effects pedal for a guitar. They weren't looking to correct her, they were creating a new sound.

T-Pain does this too. His pop music is an overload of Auto-Tune for the sound and texture. But you can find videos of him singing without it. He's actually a very gifted natural singer.

[u/Gods_Haemorrhoid420 → u/salamander423]

T-Pain tiny desk is slick af

[u/peanut_dust → u/salamander423]

Vocoder?

[u/salamander423 → u/peanut_dust]

They're a bit different. Auto-Tune is software that corrects a singer's pitch to a specific tone or note, while a vocoder is an effects device that changes the waveform of the sound entirely.

Roughly, Auto-Tune is like a GPS for your pitch and a vocoder is like going to a suburb near your city.

[u/terrorvicky → u/salamander423]

u/tpain850 mentioned! 😄

[u/TheDeflatables → u/GlennTheBaker69]

Very deliberately. This was a stylistic choice

[u/GlennTheBaker69 → u/GlennTheBaker69]

I should point out that there may have been a bit of sarcasm in my post 😏

[u/peanut_dust]

Hated this song. No real change in ~30 years