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Post by jonathan » Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:33 pm

That Britney Spears Sound...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/S/Spe ... 6-sun.html
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Post by the brill bedroom » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:58 pm

I'm shocked and appalled?
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Post by deenz » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:58 pm

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Post by AstroDan » Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:22 pm

Actually, I heard to make Nina Simone sound good, they mixed in some Britney.
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Post by drumsound » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:53 pm

Using ghost sings for guide tracks has been done for years. There was a lot of that done in the 80s (Paula Abdul et al). Nothing new.
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Post by RefD » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:55 pm

so, kind of the opposite of replacing a shitty vocal track?
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Post by rydaken » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:27 am

I just did this on Saturday. New "Boy Band" on "big" label. We've been working all night, its now 9am and the "hook" still isn't as sweet as the demo singers. Having both Pro Tools sessions at my finger tips, the producer asks me to import demo singers vocals, and align the new vocals to the old ones. I then mix in demo singers under new singers and viola! I'm having breakfast w/ my wife by 11am, then off to bed.
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Re: Britney Spears

Post by palinilap » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:40 am

jonathan wrote:That Britney Spears Sound...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/S/Spe ... 6-sun.html
I heard that was the inspiration behind the new Antares plug-in, Diva.
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Post by Gorilla » Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:19 pm

Isn't that kind of what happened with Milli Vanilli?

The demo singers were real singers and the other guys couldn't sing so you just release the demo singers with the other guys faces?
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Post by ;ivlunsdystf » Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:57 pm

But: you can't fake the devil-may-care strut of her MTV "comeback" performance (song: "Gimme More") nor can you fake the crotch shots nor the head-shaving nor the umbrella attack of a Ford Explorer nor the getting-hauled-out-of-her-mansion-on-a-stretcher

etc etc

I think she's an artist through and through, seriously. Some faked studio vocals don't bother me. She's taken her entire weird self and made her life into a spectacular public event. It's like the most colossal performance art piece ever. I am not being sarcastic here.

If we are fascinated by Wesley Willis and Skip Spence and Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain and Daniel Johnston and all the other mentally compromised artists in the canon then we also ought to be fascinated by Britney and her unique blend of life/persona/art. All I'm sayin.
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Post by JGriffin » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:25 pm

That's an interesting perspective.

Madonna did the same thing, to a lesser extent, with things like the "Sex" book; marketing a persona.

The difference, or I guess one of the points to consider, is whether Britney (or Johnston or Cobain) is living and behaving this way as an artistic statement or not (with Jandek it's pretty obvious, with Britney though?).
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Post by Mark Alan Miller » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:57 pm

Gorilla wrote:Isn't that kind of what happened with Milli Vanilli?

The demo singers were real singers and the other guys couldn't sing so you just release the demo singers with the other guys faces?
Pretty much.
palinilap wrote:
jonathan wrote:That Britney Spears Sound...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/S/Spe ... 6-sun.html
I heard that was the inspiration behind the new Antares plug-in, Diva.
There's a video about it here.
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Re: Britney Spears

Post by Patrick McAnulty » Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:06 pm

Mark Alan Miller wrote:
Gorilla wrote:Isn't that kind of what happened with Milli Vanilli?

The demo singers were real singers and the other guys couldn't sing so you just release the demo singers with the other guys faces?
Pretty much.
palinilap wrote:
jonathan wrote:That Britney Spears Sound...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/S/Spe ... 6-sun.html
I heard that was the inspiration behind the new Antares plug-in, Diva.
There's a video about it here.


fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. rick rolled again. :hammer:
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Post by Nick Sevilla » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:53 am

drumsound wrote:Using ghost sings for guide tracks has been done for years. There was a lot of that done in the 80s (Paula Abdul et al). Nothing new.
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Post by fossiltooth » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:27 pm

P Mackey wrote:
Mark Alan Miller wrote:
Gorilla wrote:Isn't that kind of what happened with Milli Vanilli?

The demo singers were real singers and the other guys couldn't sing so you just release the demo singers with the other guys faces?
Pretty much.
palinilap wrote:
jonathan wrote:That Britney Spears Sound...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/S/Spe ... 6-sun.html
I heard that was the inspiration behind the new Antares plug-in, Diva.
There's a video about it here.


fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. rick rolled again. :hammer:
I just got my learn on.

Should I have been aware of this phenomenon?
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