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Post by K. on Mar 1, 2015 8:06:07 GMT -5
Listening to Kelly Clarkson's glorious "Take You High" got me thinking of what I'm going to call (for lack of an official name that I'm aware of) the "stutter" affect -- a kind of rhythmic, electronic distortion of vocals in a song, to the point where the singer's voice itself becomes a kind of beat.
What other songs feature this effect? Off the top of my head, I think of this as a little bit of an Ellie Goulding signature (e.g., "Starry Eyed"), although I'm sure it's been used by a lot of artists for a while, especially in the alternative realm. It's easy to see a relation to beat-boxing as well.
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Post by Glove Slap on Mar 1, 2015 8:35:06 GMT -5
Isn't it just a staccato though? Except that the voice is used instead of a traditional instrument?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2015 16:03:15 GMT -5
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Post by maine on Mar 2, 2015 11:10:50 GMT -5
Marianas Trench - "Stutter"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 13:44:53 GMT -5
It's a digitally produced vocal stacatto, which essentially sounds like a stutter. The two songs that immidiately came to mind were 'Sleazy' and 'I Wanna Go'.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 14:00:32 GMT -5
 At you all for forgetting the song that made this mainstream; 'Stutter' by Joe (the remix at least). Nicki Minaj uses it in her verses sometimes as well like in 'Only.' Also does 'I Can't Stop Drinking About You' count?
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Post by icefire9 on Mar 2, 2015 16:55:54 GMT -5
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Post by surfy on Mar 2, 2015 19:57:11 GMT -5
I love it when songs have this effect in them! Ke$ha and Brintey immediately came to mind.
"Break Free" kind of has this. Zedd uses her voice during the outro in the same way that "Take You High" uses her voice in the chorus.
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Post by die Lotterie on Mar 2, 2015 22:08:42 GMT -5
My favorite example of this here:
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Post by nikkominaj on Mar 3, 2015 10:04:01 GMT -5
Britney Spears "I Wanna Go" and "Till The World Ends" comes to mind.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 13:32:05 GMT -5
Sia - "Elastic Heart"
It's not Sia's, but somebody's voice is the entire melody.
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Post by divasummer on Mar 4, 2015 16:12:54 GMT -5
I know this is OT but are all those vocals on Mimi's remix to "Say Something" new for the remix or just some of them???
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Post by divasummer on Mar 4, 2015 16:14:10 GMT -5
I know this is OT but are all those vocals on Mimi's remix to "Say Something" new for the remix or just some of them???
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