What if Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin had used Auto-Tune?
If you looked closely, you might have been able to see the little light blue ribbons our future Gonzaga guests Death Cab for Cutie wore on their lapels to the Grammys. Those ribbons did not symbolize any currently widespread cause, but rather drew attention to a musician-specific issue. “We’re here to raise awareness about Auto-Tune abuse,” frontman Ben Gibbard said to MSN UK. “I think over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a lot of good musicians being affected by this newfound digital manipulation of the human voice, and we feel enough is enough.” Blue to honor the “lost art” of “blue notes,” those ribbons disdained the recording industry’s crush/crutch in Auto-Tune. Though their gesture might be a dramatic lapse in tact, Death Cab could have a point. Has the recent proliferation of Auto-Tune use gone too far? Pitch correction software is an oft-used mainstay in recording studios. As our A&E writer Seth Sommerfield points out, even Ben Folds admits “some producer with computers fixes all
