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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