Yes, this is old. But it does point out, also, that some music is not MEANT to be sung a capella. A lot of songs, sans the music behind them, would have other than great sounding vocals, but with the whole package, the vocals sound perfect.

I know I point this out everytime but…

Auto-Tune was a hardware device a LONG time ago. This still could have been pitch corrected. Hell, you can go ‘ghetto’ pitch correction on tape by simply adjusting the speed; it’ll sound shitty but that hasn’t stopped people from doing it in a pinch.

Bashing computer based recording is misguided. Bashing people who do it poorly, is a different story.