Hello, my name is Max and welcome to Nerdify Me. This will be a blog of reviews, rants, and random articisms. Please keep arms and feet inside the vehicle and enjoy the ride.
So this is my first post and I've decided I should talk about something that pops up into my life too commonly for it to not be relevant: music. Music can bring joy, serenity, spicy food, all those emotions.(If you get the reference, I love you) but only if done right. Today I'm going to talk about music NOT done right. In fact, it doesn't deserve to be called music. It deserves to be called trash.
I won't point fingers at any artists 'cause that ain't my style, but I'll do my best to identify the key problems with modern music in general and put in my own two cents in the form of suggestions on how to fix them. This'll most likely be an ongoing thing so I can go into depth on every problem.
Numero Uno: Auto-Tune
Sure autotuning can lead to some entertaining viral videos (see: Auto-Tune the News) but those are viral videos with an emphasis on VIRAL. Being popular doesn't neccesarily translate into automatic quality. You can make a popular viral video of cats wearing underwear, and I think music deserves better than that. Basically, Auto-Tuning corrects pitch in vocal and instrumental performances, that, if used too drastically, will distort the human voice adding the tell-tale "electronic" sound. Many use Auto-Tuning because they WANT that sound and that's a-okay (if used creatively) though it can get a little gimmicky. What I'm upset about is using it to guarantee a "pitch perfect" performance, literally. I am not picky in general, but I want real music sung by real people, not robots. If you screw up, suck it up. As cheesy as this may sound, mistakes don't matter if you put heart and soul behind your music. Don't use Auto-Tune, it's that simple! I'll admit that at the beginning I thought it was cool, but now it's overused and overrated, and I'm not the only one. Many prominent figures in the music industry agree. So the lesson of this story is that by respecting the music, you're respecting yourself as an artist.
Peace Out
-Max
