Trax - you judge WAY too quickly. Autotune was not being used, IMO. This girl actually sings that way. She's a conservatory student - listen to her chops here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=estiCp-U8jk&feature=relatedShe sings Brazilian style jazz and can sing pure tone pitch better than you can imagine. The video I posted I did because of how incredibly unique it is to have this type of a sing, with Jordan Rudess - the best known prog-rock keyboard player today -
And Jordan Rudess - have you ever seen his written out musical scores? He could play circles around any of us here in any style. I'm completely serious about this. He plays 'proper' keyboards, as well as many different key-based controllers. I thought it was fun seeing him having fun with this new iPad controller layout.
Here's some videos of Jordan doing 'Proper' musician stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GwhO1_zIMo&feature=relmfuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNotmfp4E6g&feature=relmfuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EmccyFdnOw&feature=related (check out his 'score', a monitor turned sideways)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgpiXgiB9dU&feature=relatedAnyways - the talent loaded in that video is pretty huge. The union guys will have to step it up actually.
-Scott