Avril Lavigne’s mouth is full of cheating and trickery as her voice gets remastered way too much sometimes.

I found a really neat article about auto-tuning abuse in pop music.

If you’re unfamiliar with Auto-tune, and especially if you listen to much pop and rock, you might not hear it initially. When overdone, the effect yields an unnatural yodel or warble in a singer’s voice. But the sound is so commonplace in modern mainstream music that your ears may have tuned out the auto-tune!

The auto-tune effect, to help you out, is often called the ‘Cher effect’. If you listen to ween, the song spirit walker (you can hear a preview here) is also a good example of over the top abuse.

As a rule of thumb, auto-tune can be a good way to fix one or two notes, but in the recent years, producers started using it more and more as a way to either save time, or to just use it as style. All in all, it can sometimes give pretty bad results. Hope you enjoy the above linked post.

Here’s the link again if your attention span is really bad.

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