Cher’s ‘Believe’ was the first song to bring the sound of pitch-corrected vocals into the mainstream.
Here’s how that happened, and what’s happened since.
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What Auto-Tune lets the producer do is fix the first take."
I usually just say, ‘It’s magic.'"
Hildebrand built Auto-Tune with a sliding scale to govern that speed, from 1-10.
This is more or less where Cher comes in.
It kind of pissed me off, so I changed it.
I toughened it up a bit.
She’d been watching TV and saw a singer named Andrew Roachford, whose album she then purchased.
“We were tackling ‘Believe’ for the gazillionth time,“she toldThe New York Timesin 1999.
“And I said: ‘I’m so tired of doing this.
Let’s just put on this CD and listen to music and get away from this."’
Cher suggested they try the same trick.
Then, of course, there was T-Pain.
Don’t worry, Cher.
