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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I'm not.
So youre absolutely sure the artists you listen to arent using any form of pitch correction?
Are they all recording directly to 24 track 2" tape and then cut to vinyl directly as well? Because thats the only way you can be certain (thats negating an outboard vocal tuner, which could be in the signal chain).
The point here is, you have no idea. Just like many will have no idea they are listening to machine generated music and it wont be given a second thought. Its just kind of gross to me.
I guess I can never be 100% sure, but why would my favorite punk band who can't even tune a guitar (or maybe they're doing that on purpose) use autotune? To untune their singing?
And it's not just Punk, there are many ways of singing that defeat the purpose of autotune.
And your weird gatekeeping with analog tape and vinyl has nothing to do with anything here.
Its used in punk bands as well. i can assure you. Even if its home-recorded.
Wasn't gatekeeping at all. Merely stating that that is the only way you truly know the music is completely authentic (if you care about that, most dont).