Katy Perry sings without Auto-tune

[Tabasco_Dave]

[baldguy]

1. It's everything I could have imagined.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. I'd grade that performance a B- in a dive bar on karaoke night. However...

...I submit this as proof that today's "music" industry has no business turning half of its roster into stars. I'll go out on a limb and say that at least 85-90% of the vocalists in the era of top-40 radio I grew up in (British Invasion, was born in 1969, and could no longer stand top-40 radio beginning about 1988) were decidedly better singers than that. Nearly all of the remaining ones were certainly no worse. They had to have talent to get into bands back then, even if the music itself was mostly electronic and/or sampled.

Do you really want to sell me the line of bullshit that talented singers have fallen off the face of the earth, and now this is what we have to settle for? How utterly tragic.

[LynneSin]

3. I think the grammy's should have a category for auto-tuned

Since some of these albums are almost 100% autotuned and to me that is an instrument not a vocal

[hobbit709]

4. I've heard way better in a dive bar.

But then I know too many real musicians and singers.

[TheManInTheMac]

5. Oh, god, why that song? Freddie could hit it out of the park; few others can, and Katy ain't one.

[graywarrior]

6. Dylan sings better

I don't get Katy's appeal.

[bluesbassman]

7. Man, that was painful.

There's another YouTube clip out there I endured with Katy singing au natural. She gives mediocre vocalists a bad name. Sounds like she peaked at the sixth grade talent show.