Proclivities wrote: 
Electronically reprocessed vocals are not bad per se, and can often be interesting.  The problem here is that the song's nothing special to start with, and they're piling effects on top of effects for the sheer fun of reprocessing, not because the effects are supposed to accomplish anything.  (Well, anyway, if there's an objective to all the reprocessing I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is.)

 ziggytrix wrote: 
It's not just auto-tune (if at all).  There are numerous effects added to the vocals (echo, phase-shifting, delay, etc.) - something which has been done in popular music since the early 1960s.  As you point out, electronic effects have been in "electronic" music (Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Devo, etc.) forever - but I suppose there are those here who choose to disregard that genre.  The effect here is purely for the electronic effect, not to make someone sound as if they're singing in perfect pitch or reaching notes which they ordinarily cannot.

Everybody's a critic...

Regardless....I think this is pretty groovy.....!!

I get so annoyed by the use of this new-fangled electric guitar synthesizer drum kit sampling auto-tune in popular songs!

Beam me up!

 govna wrote: 
Amen

 fredriley wrote: 
Well pegged on the "sounds like", Fred. 

Auto tune is software that processes vocals, mostly to put off-key singing in tune with the music. You can also use it make the voice sound off-key, slightly metallic and mechanical—as with this song. Cher deliberately used the distorting effect with her single "Believe." 

This is arduous and annoying wrapped into one undecipherable meh. 

i'd love to punch the machine that sang this song in the face.

 ziggytrix wrote: 
Overall, I really like this song, which was one of my earlier "Radio Paradise Favorites" playlist additions. I was a bit disturbed by the lyrics until just now reading your post. So, thanks!

As for the Auto-Tune effects: I, for one, hate it as used incessantly in current pop tunes, which I dismiss ASAP. But this came out before that and at the time was to me novel and interesting. Curiously, I've never thought about my current feelings re the use of Auto-Tune and my liking this song. Still a solid 8 for me.

No wonder I got sick last night, those were the nuts I ate.  The song is kinda cool and I'm kinda digging it. 7

 contractor07 wrote: 
Really?  I've only ever heard this one.  :(

There are some good tracks on this album 

doent really set the world on fire does it.average very average.

I think I saw the album cover monsters on an old Dr. Who episode.

I like this — solid 8

Works for me.  7.  

neat album cover

After a bit of though, I don't think the song is literally about a sex-doll.  I think that's just a metaphor for a disposable relationship.

Could be wrong though.

And for the "Auto Tune" naysayers, you're having a knee-jerk reaction to a sound effect to which you've recently been overexposed in pop music.  Unless you've already decided to disregard "electronic" music as a whole, I think you should listen a bit closer to how it's used here, as opposed to how it's used in the hip-pop (not a typo) songs.

 Hippostar wrote: 
Well, that is certainly reassuring!

 Sjaaks wrote: 
The Nottingham jury concurs, though only with an 8 for the time being. Sounds like Laurie Anderson if she wrote for Twin Peaks, with a dash of Air.

And wtf is an "auto tune" that a correspondent below moans about?

I though I had found another gem until the auto tuned vocals kicked in.

AutoTune is a painful fad that should have gone away a long time ago.

Reminds me of Laurie Anderson...in a bad way.

Great!! Love the intro, makes you wonder what the hell you're gonna hear now...
From me as a jury: A solid 9

This song would have fit in really nicely with SciFi's Alice.
Likely the new Depp movie too, but I haven't seen that one yet.
I just know that the tv mini series was tough to watch but fairly worth it, and it left me with an unworldly feel both nights that this song manages in just a few minutes.

 gandalfbmg wrote: 

Or the person who got Goldfrapp's Strict Machine (a song about behavior modification via stimulating a rats pleasure center - from the rat's perspective - when they push a button) into Gameboy and mobile phone commercials!

I see it as more of an ad agency dirty trick than a ad agency failure.  I love it.

 coolpeople_rule wrote: 
Yes, Shadowfax, now there's a group we should hear here!