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This Is Pop
2021 · TV series · documentary · 44 min episodes · 1 season
Unknown histories take center stage as the hitmakers themselves - from ABBA to T-Pain - explore dimensions of pop music you never knew existed.
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Highly recommend watching This is Pop on netflix, specifically the T-Pain episode. They do a deep dive on Auto Tune in the industry and T-Pain's relationship with industry musicians. Turns out he's a phenomenal a capella singer.
[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14155414/
Netflix has a cool (but sometimes goofy) mini-series/documentary called 'This is Pop'. It looks at some of the work behind 'hit creation' as a business. There are some really cool insights behind songs we've all heard.
https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81050786
You should walk the music documentary This is Pop [0] on Netflix. It goes into a lot more details about the inventor and the history of Autotune.
In summary, it was used a lot longer (like old Mac 68k days) by a lot more artists than you realize. T-Pain turned an aid for lackluster artists into a form of art all its own. And the industry was pissed.
[0] https://www.netflix.com/title/81050786
Somewhat related to your points of music...
There's an episode of "This is Pop!" on Netflix that explores why the Swedes write so many pop hits.
One of the arguments presented is that they speak English well as a second/third language so they're less focused on the lyrics making sense and being grammatically correct, and are free to make lyrics that sound like they work but are non-sensical on reflection. It's just the right amount of separation from the language.
Ever since I saw that, I've been listening closer to a lot of the top pop songs over the last decade, and it's fascinating how English is so breakable while sounding right to our mind, but falls apart under scrutiny. (Obviously this is not unique to the swedish writers, even people who only speak English do it as well)