Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music?

"close you could hear autotune being turned on while they were talking"

It's no secret that a lot of modern pop music uses this technology.

So what if the act is electronically enhanced? That's progress.

It beats lip-synching and pretending to sing completely which has been going on for decades.

Whitney lip synched, but it was still the best anthem performance of all time.

It may have been a vocoder effect, not autotune. It could have been a vocoder and autotune. It's hard to say.

"Whitney lip synched, but it was still the best anthem performance of all time."

I'll accept lip synching for the anthem if needed to assure a sterling performance.

Otherwise, let people who are supposed to be singers just give it their usually best. No big deal.

Agreed Whitney's was perhaps the one for the ages.

Auto tube coming on premature was just another flaw in the prgram, I know its no secret, it was however a sloppy transition. One more cherry on the poop sunday.

Actually, all the background music is pre-recorded a day before and played through the monitors at half time the next day. It would be impossible to properly stage a "live" event due to the nature of the roll-out stage and the logistics of feeding and mixing a 64 track board in real time. It is easier to mimic the music under similar conditions the day before and let the attention be placed on the front persons during Sunday.

The only live feed in real time is the mics on the singers and occasionally one instrument, usually a guitar. Only Fergie and Slash were live during that section.

Why do I know this? I have done three of the half time shows.

Very difficult for ANY band to sound good here.