Released on: 2007
Rating: 6.90
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Readers reviews: Auto-Tune and directors' cuts
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
Tom Ewing last week took to the barricades in one of pop's bitterest current battles, leaping to the defence of Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction technique responsible for that deliberately robotic tone one hears on many current pop hits (and as many of you pointed out, Auto-Tune is now commonly used to describe that effect regardless of what studio gizmo was actually used). It's a divisive sound, and certainly not one CordwainerBird approves of: "Auto-Tune is a bit like that air-raid siren effects pedal that was popular for a couple of years in the early 70s, or those gated drum tracks on stuff from the eighties. It firmly dates your material and polarises your listeners." SV80, on the other hand, agreed with Tom: "The problem is with the lazy use of Auto-Tune to give character to otherwise flavourless songs and its»
- Michael Hann
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Red Riding Hood – review
Is a Twilight-lite version of the fairytale with the girl in red really necessary?
The "little" has been removed from the title, and director Catherine Hardwicke has put a pubertal spin on the old folk tale, removing its teeth, pedantically spelling out the lite-psychological implications, and populating it with high-cheekboned hotties smouldering in the twilight. They all yearningly brood and pout, especially the wolf, who is frankly an incredible drama queen.
Once upon a time, a small girl in a red cloak scurried through the dark forest to deliver pastries to her worryingly lupine-looking grandma. Now the girl in question is Valerie, played by Amanda Seyfried, a totalicious babe, who lives in a quaintly imagined medieval European village, menaced by a werewolf that lives in the outlying forest. My ideal casting for Red Riding Hood would have been Justin Bieber, but there you go. She is in love with sexy»
- Peter Bradshaw
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