But do you honestly 'believe' that this move to Auto-Tuned vocals has actually IMPROVED modern pop music? Nowadays, they massage and 'improve' everybody up to and including great singers like Celine Dion, to what end? Do they sound 'better'? I honestly don't think so. The microtonal inflexions of the unprocessed human voice is the MOST complex sound you are likely to ever hear. Try to think what Ella would have sounded like with ALL pitch inflexion 'fixed'...

What it is is a money saving tool to allow ever hard strapped studios to output something that doesn't suck at a fraction of the cost that it would have taken before the invention of AutoTune and Melodyne. But making something 'not suck' is hardly a goal worth pursuing. Making something that connects with the listener is an art, not an industrial process.

Which is what the rampant use of AutoTune has turned it into. NeYo is just the logical conclusion. Someone completely incapable of singing, 'Cher''d to the gills, and foisted on the by now uninformed public.

It is no wonder that a large percentage of kids interested in music listen preferentially to the music of the seventies. Even THEY can recognize when something is REAL, not computer enhanced to the point of roboticism.