Topic: K Pop

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Here's something amazing.  A girl group (SNSD/Girls Generation) does a perfectly respectable song, "Animal."  A fan hears it and thinks, "wow, cool song.  Wonder what it would sound like if sung by men?"  So they electronically alter the original pitch and now the voices sound male. 

Pretty weird.  But it works.  There are a number of these alterations on the SNSD list on youtube.

Here's the original, followed by the altered version.

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Altering the formant is also useful for doing you own backing vocals.  That assuming one can sing in the first place.

Rules me out.

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I'm not a fan of this next song's style, but the Koreans are certainly better at this than we are.  Give a listen:

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