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Singing Someone Else's Heart Out

Singing Someone Else's Heart Out

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 17, 2015
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Lots of people find the sound of an autotuned vocal as pleasurable as fingernails across a blackboard. But there’s something I think I dislike even more — hearing someone sing in someone else’s voice. There may be no more expressive an artistic act than singing, but doing it in someone else’s voice ruins the whole thing for me.

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