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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pattycakes:
Actors are acting, playing a part, being someone they are not, that's their job. If that's what you want to hear in your music than fine. I myself like music delivered from the heart with honesty. How anyone can say faking in accent is honest is beyond me.

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Whoa. Do you realize how contradictory that is? As Mike said earlier, it's plenty fine to dislike someone for whatever reason. If you think they're faking the intent of their recording or acting that's your opinion. However, an actor that can't act a part, it looks phony - thus fake. The same holds true for a musician. If a musician can't act the part for whatever reason, then it isn't going to move me and I'll just forget about them.

Also, being the Beatles nut you say you are, then you should be aware they did do certain things with the inflections of the voices for different songs. Here's several examples: Norwegian Wood, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, When I'm 64, and The Magical Mystery tour. All are totally different vibes and expressions. By your definition this would make the Beatles fake.

You know what all of this smacks of to me? The claims that autotune ruins the magic. What about doing multiple takes or tracks to figure out which performance was best for a record. That would also make people fake too. Or better yet, go see a band live, how many times do they "screw" up a song live? That would make them fake too wouldn't it? Or maybe, they changed the clothing they're wearing to suit a mood, that makes them fake cause they're not retaining the vision from the album cover... It goes on ad infinitum by your logic.

I propose this: Everyone is a FAKE, some just do it better than others. Does that work for you?

Jody

[This message has been edited by Whitesides (edited 04-01-2004).]

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