TV-Series Southpark features a hilarious sequence making fun of music producers, mix engineers and Grammy-winning artist Lorde.
Randy Marsh voice morphs into Lorde in what looks like an incredibly detailed GUI of a DAW, that leans on the look of Garageband, Protools and Logic Pro X.
The Lorde-plot was first brought up in “Gluten Free Ebola”, and the DAW look behind the scenes happens in “The Cissy” (second episode).
Rumors on the web suggest that the voice we’re hearing is singer and songwriter Sia (Furler) – actually Lorde brought that up in one of her tweets).
i don’t actually watch south park but from what i can tell sia was involved and someone’s mum said something really nice about me.. score!
— Lorde (@lordemusic) October 9, 2014
The Southpark producers paid incredible attention on details like their version of the famous Antares Auto-Tune Plug-In. While the real thing is stuck at Version 7, Southpark is already playing with “Auto-Tuner v10”!! 😉
There’s a fun reddit-discussion, and some links floating around and a bunch of music production blogs started discussing this:
Create Digital Music
EDM Tunes
Ultimate Guitar
Watch the entire episode “The Cissy” on the official Southpark Page.
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