vocal effect (was Re: [linux-audio-user] How to get good vocal sound)

[Brett McCoy]

Brett McCoy wrote:

>>>    Cher started that garbage about 4 or 5 years ago - it's pitch
>>> correction taken to extremes.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Cher could not have been the first to popularize this.  I am pretty sure
>> that boy band Simpsons episode predates "Believe".
>>
>> (BTW I can't stand the effect either)
> 
> 
> I'm not sure I've heard this effect... what other songs have used it?

I found a video of "I'm Sprung" via Google... that is an awful sound. Do 
people actually like that? It seems very gratuitous, like the overly 
obvious CG effects used in movies...

-- Brett