Lady Gaga accuses record bosses of forcing her to adjust vocals
Pop star Lady Gaga has hit out at recording studio bosses for using voice-adjusting software on her music, insisting she often sounds like a "robot" on her albums.
The Poker Face hitmaker has accused officials at her record label of trying to "control" her early career and blames them for demanding that her singing should be made to sound more "radio-friendly".
She alleges studio staff were ordered to increase the use of
pitch-tuning software to correct any imperfect singing during the
early days of her career, which left her vocals sounding
unnatural.
Gaga tells British magazine Seven, "There's been a part of me that
has been quiet for a long time that is now being reawakened, after
years of producers and record label people telling me to make my
voice sound more radio-friendly.
"Since The Fame, The Fame Monster, and Born This Way, they've been
auto-tuning it more, or changing the timbre. They take the vibrato
out so you sound like a robot...
"They really control you, especially in the beginning. Although it
was still my songs, and I still had a lot to say about the
production, the vocal was something that they really, really wanted
to control. So my vocal presence has been kind of the smallest
presence about me for a long time."