"Ricky W. Hunt" wrote in message news:IKwSa.105321$ye4.77902@sccrnsc01...
"WBRW" wrote in message
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As countless people agree, Norah Jones has an excellent voice and is a
skilled pianist and songwriter in her own right. But on the album,
her voice is suspiciously flat almost all the time; she constantly
seems to hit about a half-note below what the proper pitch would be.
It's one of those things that you might not notice at first, but when
you do, it becomes so obvious that you just can't ignore it anymore.

I think this is just a sad side effect of all the other current artists
using pitch correction (whether they need it or not) and kudos to her
producers for NOT using it. Someone has be the bold first one. I've found
that after listening to lots of "current" music putting on some old
favorites that were "perfect" to me before sound almost unlistenable at
times because of "bad pitch" (but that's a relative remember). Autotune is a
form of addiction and functions just like a drug addict that needs purer and
purer levels to attain the same "high". Normal things no longer sound "good
enough". Autotune is to good music as an apple is to corn syrup.
Hilarious. Funny stuff. I certainly hope the poster didnt mean "half
note below"...now that would sound interesting.
Can you really see these producers telling someone to sing off key?
"No honey that was on pitch, can we try it again"? Unfortunately the
pitch correction era in music has made people used to perfect pitched
vocals and other things..like perfect rhythm section timing. I see it
in my own discernment of recordings. Jones' success has at least
somewhat proven that it's still songs and mood that people key into.
kelly