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Music Appreciation

highplainsdem

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7. Yes, since 2005. I did some quick googling, saw that lead singer Taka was in the boy band NEWS

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #6)

Mon May 5, 2025, 03:53 PM

May 5

before that, when he was in his mid-teens. (He's 37 now.)

I did see one page saying they have made some use of autotune, but limited use, and there were no details there about specific songs/albums.

You can hear him using autotune just a bit here (it can be used live), from 12:06 to 12:20 in the reaction video. I wish he wouldn't use it at all because his voice is so good and I would have preferred not to hear that mechanical sound, but younger music fans are used to the sound and it seems normal enough to them.

Fairly short interview I found (no year on the article but he's talking about their 2023 tour):
https://www.squareonemagazine.co.uk/interviews/a-conversation-with-one-ok-rock

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Here is a review of one of my favorite rock groups..ONE OK ROCK [View all] LiberalArkie May 5 OP

The original video they're talking about, linked to in the YouTube description, was taken down. highplainsdem May 5 #1

hmm... Looks almost the same though. I wonder if it was taken off for remixing. They .have been doing that recently. LiberalArkie May 5 #2

Same performance, apparently, but different URLs - I compared the links. highplainsdem May 5 #4

What did you think of them? LiberalArkie May 5 #3

They're good! Sorry I got so busy finding a replacement for the concert video that I forgot to highplainsdem May 5 #5

I think they have been together for 20 years. A lot of history and to me they have a video/audio concert LiberalArkie May 5 #6

Yes, since 2005. I did some quick googling, saw that lead singer Taka was in the boy band NEWS highplainsdem May 5 #7

It does not bother me that much when a very proficient singer will use it a bit, what rips me a new one is when LiberalArkie May 5 #8

I agree it's much, much worse when it's used for what amounts to fraud. And Taka and his band are very highplainsdem May 5 #9