Cher has done a lot of things. She scored her first Hot 100 chart-topper in 1965 and her last in 1999. (At 52, Cher was the oldest woman to land a #1 hit until last week, when Brenda Lee broke the record.) Cher sang backup on “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.” She helped modernize the variety show in the ’70s and defied expectations in the ’80s. She won an Oscar for Best Actress. The ubiquitous robotic Auto-Tune effect? Cher did that first. But Cher is not in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and she thinks that’s some bullshit.
I respectfully disagree that she has contributed anything of value whatsoever to the music industry. She did not invent auto-tune. Music producers used auto-tune on her voice because she could not carry a tune herself. And it’s not even a good song. The music industry is rigged and God only knows why that one song is played over loudspeakers over and over again, assaulting the ears of the unconsenting masses.
And although some other journalist claims to have written that article, I wouldn’t doubt that Cher wrote that article herself and paid someone to pretend he wrote it as if anyone else cares what dubious contributions she has made to the music industry.
Cher has been around decades before auto-tune even existed.
What!? You mean she was a singer prior to 1998!?
Nothing existed before The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
Him hitting the table caused the Big Bang!
Technically, if you count her big break as the alarm clock song from Groundhog Day.
Sure but the article specifically mentions autotune being a Cher first thing.
Motherfuckers never heard of a vocoder before.
Also it’s hilarious that other motherfuckers think that auto tune effect was supposed to hide imperfections in her singing and not be a blatant and intentional vocal effect.
“Believe” is a cheesy ass tune, tho
It wasn’t a vocoder in Believe but they did lie and say it was initially to keep it a trade secret.
My friend auto tune did not exist in 1965 yet she still topped the 100 billard chart. She can more then carry a tune. Don’t diminish skill because you don’t like her style.
Maybe read the article first.
I did. Did I miss something specifically? This posturing is not helpful to your point. No wants to believe a jackass even if they are right.
Hey - me again.
I didn’t mean to be a jackass, I was just skimming through and yours was the second comment I saw along the same line of thought within minutes, which is why I gave a curt response. I realize now that the comments were so close together that you probably didn’t even see the first one.
All that to say - sorry for being a dick, I just wanted to highlight that OC was arguing the autotune thing, not the whole article (or the headline).
That was one point the article brought up, not exactly her sole claim to (rock) fame.
It’s a pretty big claim she’s making. I think that’s why OC is refuting it.
“Refute” implies that they successfully argued their case, which they haven’t.
No it doesn’t.
Cher wasn’t the first to use Auto-tune; she was the first to use it to intentionally distort vocals as an artistic choice rather than for minor pitch corrections.
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