Can we talk about important things, like how autotune and pitch correction is pervasive in the music industry and is destroying the ability to hear and appreciate natural singing? Even many so-called live performances are fraudulent because they have been pitch corrected, most likely in post-production. Another important issue is the hab…
Can we talk about important things, like how autotune and pitch correction is pervasive in the music industry and is destroying the ability to hear and appreciate natural singing? Even many so-called live performances are fraudulent because they have been pitch corrected, most likely in post-production. Another important issue is the habitual unnecessary usage by Gen Z of the word "literally", initially more for ironic hyperbole, but now literally for everything. "Based off" instead of "based on" is another endemic grammatical issue among young generations. I wonder if these problems could be due to the greatly increased number of vaccines given to infants and children over the last number of decades.
Update: Oh no--very near the beginning of the short film recommended in the next Substack, "Epidemic of Fraud Excerpt: History of H+C+Q", the young (by the sound of his voice) narrator says, "Chloroquine was based off of a drug called quinine..." It raises my hackles when I hear that. "The prepositions on and upon seem logical enough for the phrase: you find a foundation or basis for something on or upon something else: you build on that foundation or basis." --https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/based-on-vs-based-off
Can we talk about important things, like how autotune and pitch correction is pervasive in the music industry and is destroying the ability to hear and appreciate natural singing? Even many so-called live performances are fraudulent because they have been pitch corrected, most likely in post-production. Another important issue is the habitual unnecessary usage by Gen Z of the word "literally", initially more for ironic hyperbole, but now literally for everything. "Based off" instead of "based on" is another endemic grammatical issue among young generations. I wonder if these problems could be due to the greatly increased number of vaccines given to infants and children over the last number of decades.
Update: Oh no--very near the beginning of the short film recommended in the next Substack, "Epidemic of Fraud Excerpt: History of H+C+Q", the young (by the sound of his voice) narrator says, "Chloroquine was based off of a drug called quinine..." It raises my hackles when I hear that. "The prepositions on and upon seem logical enough for the phrase: you find a foundation or basis for something on or upon something else: you build on that foundation or basis." --https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/based-on-vs-based-off