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Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony
(literature.cafe)
Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, "1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in 'The Matrix' and I laughed because that obviously wouldn't age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point."
I feel like they used a lot of help from ProTools to make him some better on that one, though. Since there want really auto tune back then.
There absolutely was autotune back then. Cher's Believe was the song that kickstarted the plugin's popularity and that song came out in 1998. Autotune itself came out the year before.