Death Cab For Cutie Want To End AutoTune
Published Tuesday, 10th February, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Death Cab For Cutie hate the overuse of AutoTune in recent pop songs, that they've launched a campaign to end it.
The computer software enables the singer to alter their voice and this process has become popular in the last few years - particularly with artists like T-Pain and Kanye West (who used AutoTune on each and every song on his 808s & Heartbreak album).
"Autotuning is a digital manipulation, a correction of a singer's voice that is affecting literally thousands of singers today and thousands of records that are coming out," frontman Ben Gibbard is quoted as saying.
"We just want to raise awareness while we're here and try to bring back the blue note... The note that's not so perfectly in pitch and just gives the recording some soul and some kind of real character. It's how people really sing."
