As Sinead O'Connor once said, "Fight the real enemy!"
That's what Death Cab For Cutie was doing when they showed up to the Grammy Awards wearing light-blue ribbons on their suits, to raise awareness of their new crusade against auto-tuned vocals popularized by people who actually won Grammys on Sunday, like Lil' Wayne.
Singer/songwriter Ben Gibbard:
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. So 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.
Seems like time for a Death Cab for Cutie vs. Guns N' Roses vocal production battle royale!
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