{"id":433,"date":"2004-01-18T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2004\/01\/18\/operacion-fracaso\/"},"modified":"2004-01-18T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T18:02:44","slug":"operacion-fracaso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2004\/01\/18\/operacion-fracaso\/","title":{"rendered":"Operaci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a609'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This wave of weak voices comes at a time when singers have fewer excuses than ever: with electronic pitch control, producers can make sure every note is perfect. And listeners are getting more astute: they know that what they&#8217;re hearing on the new album by, say, Britney Spears (a closeted bad singer, though she&#8217;s not fooling anyone) is something more &#x2014; or less &#x2014; than an unvarnished voice.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s why bad singing is so popular right now: the more listeners know about pitch correction, the more fascinated they may be to hear something that&#8217;s obviously uncorrected. At a time when it seems easier than ever to become a celebrity, bad singing can create a seductive illusion of intimacy. To hear a pop star flub a note is to believe, if only for a moment, that you or I could just as easily be onstage, doing no less and no more than our best.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Fox is to begin broadcasting the third season of &#8220;American Idol,&#8221; and before too long we&#8217;ll have a new cast of would-be winners, turning too-familiar songs into vocal workouts. And maybe some enterprising producer will look at the contestants, look at the pop charts and see the marketing opportunity. Never mind the winners: maybe it&#8217;s time to sign up the losers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nCuando en las <i>Metamorfosis<\/i>, tras entrar en los Infiernos, Orfeo llega ante Plut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wave of weak voices comes at a time when singers have fewer excuses than ever: with electronic pitch control, producers can make sure every note is perfect. And listeners are getting more astute: they know that what they&#8217;re hearing on the new album by, say, Britney Spears (a closeted bad singer, though she&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}