X Factor has just started an there’s a piece of music playing with vocoded vocals.
Can we throw these machines away now, please? They are like very bad photoshop filters, naff and overused.
All the vocoder does is make everyone sound the same. Why, If you have a good and distinctive voice would you want to make it sound like everyone else?
Glad to see the speedboats in the XFactor intro film. We saw them powering up the Thames at the end of July and figured that’s what they were for.
A surprisingly emotional day – seeing all the kids at school getting their results, most of them looking happy, some not, and realising that we might never see some of them again after they’ve gone their separate ways. Weird.
My kids did okay, just need to see how everything fits in with their future plans.
Phew! Just got back from my first drive with my dear son, Ed. He’s had lessons and his mum has been out with him, but this was my first time. He’s very calm and quite together, but we had an interesting route.
I took him to a very strange junction. He couldn’t work out where to go and stalled in the middle of it. My fault, I think. Then we met several enormous tractors down narrow country lanes and, the most difficult maneuver, getting past a couple or horse riders that didn’t want to go in single file, on a hill in a narrow lane. He did it though!
So many things to think of at the same time.