Music insecurity????

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So ever since I was nine I've LOVED music and have recently signed up for singing lesson. Everyone tells me that I'm good and (believe it or not) that I sound like a male Christina Aguilera. I don't know how I do it but I can. but anyways my music teacher is even having me audition for The X-Factor. But sometimes I just feel like my voice isn't good and becuz of that I resort to Auto-Tune (e.g. T-Pain, Ke$ha, Cher, etc.). She always tells me that I'm good without Aut-Tune but I just don't believe her or anyone. I want to but.... And I sound good live it's just on recordings. Is this normal? To hear something differently than everyone else? I want to know cuz I'd like to start posting my stuff online and to make CDs... And if anyone has ever expirience this before and recovered from it please tell me I'd love to hear ur story.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago | pl

    Don't resort to auto-tune, it is the downfall of actual skilled musicians.

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    • shuggy-chan
      11 years ago

      YUP if i wanted to here robots talk i listen to hawking

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        I actually found that quite funny. Thumbs up to you, sir.

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        • shuggy-chan
          11 years ago

          i cant find it with the actual video, but i was thinking of this song

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muo8sIfgXkY

          ahhh dexter's lab ^_^

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        HA! nice!

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    I hear something completely different when I sing live than I hear on recording too. I guess I just hear my voice so often it sounds plain to me.

    Autotune = The opposite of artistic talent

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  • Charade
    11 years ago

    Jim Morrison never liked his voice.

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  • nightmare28
    11 years ago

    If you need auto-tune, you're not talented. Non of the great singers ever used it, I'm not talking about T-Pain, Ke$ha, Cher, I'm talking about Robert Plant, Frank Sinatra, Janis Joplin.

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    Do you get singing lessons? Whatever you do don't resort to using auto-tune or making horrible meaningless music. Good Luck!

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  • lizzy123
    11 years ago

    I really am shy and think i sound like crap, but when I sing my teachers are looking at me and my friends are telling me i am their favorite Music Artist even if i think i sound like crap, i just can't hear myself but do very well!!

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  • stealmysocks
    11 years ago

    You always sound better to other people than to yourself.

    Unless you sound crap, then you sound crap all the time.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Yeah that must be true. Yesterday my sister and her boyfriend were over while I was practicing for an upcoming audition. It was an Etta James/Christina Aguilera thing I put togetger. Later at a party he was telling a his friends "this guys gunna be f*cking rich and famous one day. I heard him sing for the first time today and let me tell u, he's better than most of the people ik. (That's people like LMFAO, T-Pain, ect. Idk how but he knows famous people I've seen pics of him partying with them.) my buddie owns a small record label and ik if I put him in front of him and he heard what I did today he'd say 'where the f*ck u been'" I knew it souded good but idk it was THAT good that time. Well, wish me luck.

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  • Nemomo
    11 years ago

    I used to be in a choir in middle school but eventually got kicked out since I started to change voice due to puberty. Since that, my voice have became all unstable and I mean, I can still sing well but it is not as good as I was a kid. But still I don't use things like Auto-tuned because that doesn't sound like me, if I wanna appreciate people with my singing, I would like to use my own, unique voice instead of some robotic, T-pain kind of shxt.

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    11 years ago

    So after hours upon hours of waiting in the pouring rain I didn't make it on The X-Factor. I got to nervous, my mouth was dry, I dragged my words, and I was just to nervous to pronounce my runs. That and the judge was a Simon wannabe and an asshole. He did look interested every once and a while and he let me sing two songs but my nerves got the best of me. But I'm not going to give up. Hopefully next year will be better.

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