#anon i think you're mistaking jimin for a robot

[sirensoul-min]

anon is back with a longer essay but i ain't reading all that. anon, you're not even constructive, you're just hating. no matter what i say here won't make you change your mind.

everything that i knew jimin has done from his group debut to his solo debut has helped him grow as an artist and a person. and for that i couldn't be more proud of him. if you fail to appreciate his artistry and personality, it's not going to be my problem.

nothing will change for jimin unless he leaves this company. bongo decides everything, and if jimin doesn't man up, put himself first and leave, his career is going to go downhill, we already saw how in 2023-2024 he lost his hard earned popularity. nobody outside his fans likes him anymore, he made all wrong decisions. he doesn't interact with fans, changed style and hairstyle to ugly, made awful music like smeraldo and set me free [whole muse album was underwhelming compared to face if we're being honest], he doesn't ger out of comfort zone and work with different producers. jmn doesn't go online, so he doesn't know trends and how to make trendy music, he became corny asf cuz why he acts like 10 y/o and can't say things like alcohol sex etc as if his fans are kids, he keeps doing fanservice with ratkook for these brain dead jokers who call him omega and other degrading slurs. he wants everyone to hate him so bad

just received this but i'm already answering it because this is so funny. nice try, anon. if only you can be honest to yourself first. also, don't use 'we' because we're not the same. ew

[whysojiminimnida]

does bts use autotune in recorded versions, its just that i came across some vocal coach saying that they do you use autotune? in the mtv bts unplugged fix you performance? i am not talking about studio versions, bc i know they do that to also put some effects too , but i mean the live singing perfromances, like maybe be some pre recorded performances in 2021 /20 and also do they use that in live performances during concerts and award stages? i thought they did not hence teh mistakes sometimes?

Okay anon hang tight because this is gonna take a minute.

Yes, BTS *does* use Autotune in their performance stages - BUT CHILL BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE OWN YOU THINK IT IS.

Literally EVERY ARTIST WORKING USES SOME FORM OF AUTOTUNE 99% OF THE TIME. BTS uses less and needs much less than most artists. Grab some snacks and I will explain.

There are two types of Autotune. Live correction, which is in the pic above, and after-the-fact graphic correction, which looks like this in the interface:

Every artist in the known universe uses the graphic correction for studio work. Because many artists, BTS included, need additional backing tracks since they provide their own backing vocals. Also it's a necessary tool to provide depth and the proper overall sound - it's not about pitch correction in the moment, per se.

Now, the "Fix You" and other pre-recorded performances DO ALSO USE AUTOTUNE. Not just BTS, y'all. Everyone does this. It's to help maintain a consistent sound quality over all performances and also because Antares has a very specific tonal quality that is hugely popular in recorded music. To get the human voice to sound that way you almost have to have a little bit of Autotune on the mic. They don't need a lot or use a lot most of the time, and in fact, don't use live correction much at all. But figure this: you're out there on a huge international stage in front of millions of people and you're also dancing. What if - what IF - you miss a note? Maybe not by a lot. If that can be fixed prior to it being shown, why wouldn't you fix it? You'd totally fix it, right? So they do. And so does everyone else in the industry.

Live, real-time correction doesn't work like that and it's not used much in BTS performances. Because it's risky. If you mess up the mic or get it wrong or overdo it you end up with horrible, obvious robotic sound and nobody likes that. So BTS doesn't do it. If they're gonna be a little bit off, they're just off a lil bit and we love them anyway.

Now, their lives do have some graphic correction built in on the front end. They often - even usually - have backing vocal tracks laid down and running behind their vocals. BECAUSE THEY CAN'T SING THREE THINGS AT THE SAME TIME and they are actively using their own vocals on multiple tracks at once. Those extra tracks gotta come from somewhere to keep the concerts sounding about the same as the recordings, so the extra tracks are provided for lives.

There is also a little bit of preset Autotune in the mics they use - I'm not totally familiar with the software and it may be their own proprietary blend - to help out in super dance heavy or very high songs, like Dynamite and Black Swan. Both those songs use a fair amount of Autotune pre-laid on the front end and you can actually hear it in both the recordings and the lives. That is a stylistic choice, not a pitch correction choice. It is also there for breath support. You try lifting a Jimin and rolling around on stage and also singing with your full voice and see how far you get.

So the reason we hear mistakes sometimes is because they make ACTUAL MISTAKES and don't use much real-time pitch or vocal correction in concerts or live performances. In fact, they use enough LESS graphics (after-the-fact) correction that we sometimes hear a beat slip through in pre-records. So let anyone who wants to bitch about Autotune and BTS take a flying leap off the industry bridge because they have proved over and over that they don't NEED it. Ed Sheeran is a damn nightmare live and I love him. Billie Eilish uses Autotune routinely in live performance for real time correction. Every artist you might be listening to is using some form of Autotune (okay, Bieber uses Melodyne but he's got Jungkook level pitch and still uses it on the front end, just like BTS).

It doesn't make BTS less authentic or less talented. It just means that you are getting what you paid for every single time you hear them - and our guys can do it while dancing, jumping, spinning and rapping without it being overwhelming or robotic, and that is an achievement. I dare any other group working right now to do it - the vast majority will fail. Even Coldplay uses Autotune and except for Chris Martin they're not generally all over the stage. Hope that helps, anon!