Beyoncé fell victim to a viral prank earlier this week, after a young man with perhaps too much time on his hands edited audio of her singing to make it sound so badly out of tune only an "idiot" would consider it real. That idiot turned out to be braying shock-jock Howard Stern, who played a clip of the singer failing to hit just about every note of If I Were a Boy during a recent performance on The Today Show.
Beyoncé seemed to take the prank pretty well; perhaps she expected worse from Howard Stern. Meanwhile, the man responsible says he did this to "make a point" about "how easy it is to manipulated someone's voice". Like we didn't know that! Wonky Auto-Tuning not only props up the charts but is the reason T-Pain has a career.
Auto-Tune makes a baby crying sound like you're being serenaded, albeit in a creepy way, and can liven up even the dullest office conversations.
And just as the tweek of a knob can make an otherwise boring song sound that much more interesting, it also makes portraying an egotisical rapper as, say, a gay fish that much easier. And funnier.
