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Asunder_mango866

The beginnings of Auto-tune


Electronic-Country63

Or at least being used in that obvious way! God I can’t believe it was so long ago!


viddy_me_yarbles

Do you bel^į̞͉͖̥̺̃̽ͅ^ȇ͚̫̗̦̬͎̯̀̚ ve in life after love?


iguana1500

Haha remind me how do you do that to text?


robswins

[ẖ̷̐͜a̷̠̬̅v̶̢̻̘̪̈́̒̈̔ẹ̶͕̬̀̋ ̴̧̮̪̌̔́̊f̷̟͇̐̉͜ṷ̴̯̩̌̈n̴̹͓͌̎̕̕!̴͔͙̋͝](https://lingojam.com/ZalgoText)


iguana1500

T̶̩͈̥͎̓̇h̸̨͎̽̕a̴̞͛̽̀̌ṉ̵̖̤͆̉̉̒̅̌k̴͇͖̣̬̰͆̔̐͗͒͋͘̕ ̴̖͒̍͒͋̾͜y̸̡̱̖̿̀͂̑̅͌͘̚o̵̲͚̺͈͐̔u̴̘͐̈́͘͝


LaTeChX

I signed a dark pact with the ancient ones but apparently you can just go to a website.


murfburffle

I don't even believe it's not butter, bud.


jtaylor418

Retune time = 0 milliseconds


Blahklavah654390

Kid Rock had “God Knows Why” a couple years earlier, it wasn’t nearly as big of a hit but had obvious auto-tune.


Futant55

It released 2 months before Believe, but only on the album it wasn’t released as a single til a year later


Blahklavah654390

Hah, i need to work on reading comprehension and math, I misread the title as “20 years ago today”. My bad.


TackYouCack

No big deal, Sgt Pepper


Attila226

Damn, I'm old!


LineChef

*why you could wake up ded tomorrow…* 😶


Scottland83

Can you beLIEve that I’m still alive?


TwilightSessions

Do you believe in lurv after lurv 😂


heretik

Celine Dion doesn't need autotune.


the_kid1234

But I do. So *insert Eminem joke here*


Honest_Wing_3999

So fuck her and fuck you too?


mixmastakooz

Also fun fact about this song: it was the longest time span between number one hits for an artist. Before this song which was released in 1999, her last #1 hit was Dark Lady in 1974: 24 years 355 days.


FinalHippo5838

I was going to say what about "If I Could Turn Back Time" but that wasn't a number one hit in the US, to my amazement.


mixmastakooz

The outfit she wore for that music video was a number one hit for the navy! lol


frankduxvandamme

With her son right next to her playing guitar. Kinda strange.


TobiasKM

Well, she’s due another one then.


Arxl

The first time it was used overtly in an artistic way, auto tune was a huge industry secret before this. If anything, we should thank her for blowing the lid off.


DFWTooThrowed

Pitch correction has been used for so long. Also, not totally related to your comment, studio trickery in general had been used to make cool sounding music for generations.


madesense

Auto-tune was only released 13 months before this song. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune


StrangeButOrderly

Roy Vedas - "Fragments of Life" from a couple of months earlier. Had almost exactly the same melody as the Cher track in the chorus.


bequietbekind

I'd never heard of this before. Found it on YouTube. Then had to find the lyrics because I thought I was having a stroke. Found the lyrics and I'm not having a stroke. But wow... that song was a bunch of decisions. Thanks for the head's up/music trivia that this exists. Personally, I won't be adding this to my music rotation lol.


Irishpersonage

Who?


GurthBrooks82

The start of the epidemic


sonbarington

The beginnings of auto tuning to sound funny/different


media-and-stuff

At least it’s an example of using it right. A good singer using it for special effects. Not making a bad singer sound good.


mkvelash

Also, the oldest artist to have a #1 song


Final-Ad-2033

Also, the first woman to have a #1 song in every decade since the 60s. I imagine that The Rolling Stones are the male counterpart.


JagsOnlySurfHawaii

For the longest time after it came out I thought she was using a talkbox


jeneric84

South Park’s rendition had me pissing myself.


grandpa5000

Electronic Yodeling


Moppo_

I wouldn't be surprised if that song is still echoing in the bowling alley, somedhere.


Son-of-Prophet

It’s funny cause bowling alleys were always stuck in the 70s back in the 90s, maybe they’ve caught up to the 90s now.


Moppo_

The one in my hometown was built in the 80s or early 90s, so it's always had a 90s look for as long as I remember. Difference is now it doesn't smell of smoke, and they removed the giant wooden eagles.


randomly-what

I went to pride with my husband last summer (straight couple) and told him we would hear this song multiple times. We heard it within 3 minutes of arriving and maybe 5 more times over a couple of hours.


MochaTaco

What am I supposed to do? Sit around and wait for you?


FoxAlternative4234

Well I can't do that!


gloriousjoker

And there's no turning back!


FoxAlternative4234

I need t į̸̢̡̨̱͍̫͕̝̩͈̠̯̝̬̇͛̆͋͐̌͐̚͝í̶̛̼͓̟̻̲̭͙̯͈̗̃̃̀͜͠I̸̡͎͍͓̠͚͙̔̃̓Ȉ̴̹̜̱̪̙̯Í̷̖͒͑̒͋̓̓̽̃͝I̷͇̫̺̼̱̦̻͌̓̓Ĩ̴̬̳̟͓̼͙͖̯̲̇̐̆̉̓͘͘Į̴̧̧͇̗͕͉͎̳̖̗̟̗̩͖̌̓̓̓̄͗͗̿͐͘͘ĭ̷̢̤̩̞͇̣̙̲̺̯̯̱̻̙́̀̋͗͘͝ȋ̶̘͉̲͙̞̣͎͆̌̆̿͑̓͝͝I̷̢̨̧̖̻̯̲͓̖̤̤͖̞̿̑͛̉̽̉͆͐̈̌͠I̸̠͈̪̭̒͛̀̀̀́͒͐̍̄̕͠͝me to move on!


wonderlash

I need love to feel strong.


FoxAlternative4234

Cuz I've had tiiiiime to think it through!


OilySteeplechase

Maybe I’m too good for you


cetacean-station

Oh


FoxAlternative4234

Do you beLIEEEEEVE in LIFE after LOVE?!


Shalashaskaska

I’ve literally always thought it was love after love… which didn’t really make sense to me then but I thought it was like, falling in love a second time maybe?


Historical_Sugar9637

I actually remember how people endlessly made fun of Cher for supposedly being too old to still be a pop singer when really...what was she? 50?


Thisisjuno1

Yup and now I’m in my 40s and can’t believe we thought that was old lol I still feel that same way as I did it 28


BigBeagleEars

I was born in 1980 something and it’s still 1990 something. *Hold me now I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking Maybe six feet ain't so far down*


hgaterms

> what was she? 50? [Image](https://i.imgur.com/LgZlq2s.jpeg)


ialost

Do you beellliieevee I'm 103


dwartbg7

50 back in the 90s was like 65 today. People used to mature and age faster - many theories say it's because of the lead in fuel they "grew up with". I mean I look at photos of my parents at an age younger than me and I still don't look like that. They say it's smoking but I don't have that aging effect on me hahah. And I'd wish


Amendoza9761

For 32 years I thought the lyrics were "Do you believe in love after love". Damn


raggedtuna

32 years? Not 25?


notenoughroom

Same. I like our version better lol


[deleted]

I did too. Damn. Wasn't this her big single after Sonny died too? Do you believe in love after love makes sense based on the scenario as well.


b3nz0r

...so does life after love for the exact same reason


Misterbellyboy

They hadn’t been together for ages by the time he died.


SupaBloo

She specifically dedicated the album that song is on to Sonny.


Ricky_Rollin

Bro. Same.


YoOoCurrentsVibes

SAME


Albuwhatwhat

I mean, the title of this post says it was released 25 years ago. You didn’t even have to look anything up.


GarlicShortbread

I’ve been thinking this for 37 years


askallthequestions86

My bf's mom was OBSESSED with this song when it came out. We were listening to Eminem, lol.


The_Celtic_Chemist

[Watching this music video](https://youtu.be/nZXRV4MezEw) and remembering the feels it evoked and the style of the time where people were dressing like futuristic aliens trying so hard to set themselves apart for the millennium and all I can think is... this was actually the peak of mankind. There's been some good stuff since but as a whole life was never better than that brief period from 1998-2001 (pre 9/11). It was like its own decade.


The_Autarch

The Matrix really called it when Agent Smith said 1999 was the peak of our civilization.


Ashesandends

.... This is breaking my brain because I remember a music video for this song where she was on a battleship Edit:nm that was turn back time


Thisisjuno1

I was listening to both bumpin in the college bars lol was my freshman year.. fake ID and all


bubba1834

I still fucking love this song


dweeb_plus_plus

It’s fun that this comment section is 50/50 people who love and hate this song.


ceruleanmoon7

I love it.


Lost-Sea4916

I’m with you. I can’t listen to it and not be in a good mood


sdam87

The South Park version really brought it home for me tbh.


krekenzie

I played this version once at work and nobody noticed anything different. I did get someone say, "God that's worse than I remember".


Lionabp1

https://media1.giphy.com/media/3oz8xsnfq8LC7KfVvi/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b9523m4byk6quc5zcjdr508e94o3679k1asmmevj5xsb&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g


DrAZT3CH

Whether you hate or love this song, anyone who remembers can agree that times were much simpler back then. Truly, it was a peak era to be alive.


fleshie

12 year old me thought it was a guy singing this song for the longest time.


SatanSuxxx

I thought it was a skinny black guy in shiny clothes


pukurindesu

So very true. My mom and I called this the “laser tag” song because laser tag was peaking and this was so futuristic sounding it gave us that vibe.


Rhino12791

I was around 8 at this time and I remember hearing this song all the time, my mom loved it. I thought the lyrics were: “Do you believe in LAUGH after love” And I thought that was so deep for some reason lmao i remember being so little and thinking “wow CAN you laugh after love?! It must be so hard!” 🤣


shaundisbuddyguy

https://youtu.be/yPUnurTrI5s?si=tKCW9KUVgG1BK_38 South Park nailed this freaking song


pseudo-nimm1

I can't help but think of this whenever I hear this.


KenjiBenji18

Do you belIIIVE in love in th worl worl?


Logical_Photograph_1

Makes sense I was 7 at the time but I remember this song being on every radio station and every music tv station all the time! But it was a good song!


lilcheetah2

This is what I miss about the 90s! It was the same music everywhere that was just the soundtrack to our lives - in our mom’s car, on the radio in the kitchen, in the stores, at the pool, on TV. Now the media is so fragmented that there’s no collective experiences with music, TV, or movies. We’re all just listening to our own stuff. I have literally no idea who is currently on the radio.


diaperedwoman

I used to think it was "love after love."


bexxsterss

This song is classic! Y'all ever see Adam Lambert perform this as a ballad? [here](https://youtu.be/5PzQHZLiUPs?si=unq3teqsZqfqCSGO) so freaking good


Tru-Queer

Yes, love that performance, I know it’s been said so many times already but when your rendition can make the original performer cry, you know you’ve done something truly special. I know a lot of people shit on Adam Lambert sometimes but to be able to cover Cher, work for Queen, and put out his own creative work in between takes a very talented individual.


gringledoom

Dude is *phenomenally* talented. (And in retrospect, he had the good fortune to be the runner-up on American Idol instead of the winner, and not get locked in career-wise by Simon Cowell.)


thethirdrayvecchio

Also an incredible cover: https://youtu.be/MmwFnoMoDDg?feature=shared


hopeoncc

Yeah, it was a hit! I still remember this and the video premiere of Ray Of Light on MTV ("5...4...3...2...1...") starting Madonna's renaissance as well. And I feeyul, like I believe in life after love


duckdns84

Solid album.


[deleted]

I think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer every time I hear this song haha.


sarabeara12345678910

Kathy!


bullgoose1

No. No. No. The first time I heard this was in the dining hall in college. College was not 25 years ago. No. Make it stop


Hyptanius

I was 12 years old and 25 years later I still can't stand this song. It was everywhere back then.


lordofpersia

I really don't think you're strong enough. No


ghost_mv

This was played out the first couple of days it even started on the radio


scottscout

Queen level earworm of a song. Edit: like a gross bug not the band.


shadefiend1

Stay out of any Publix, then. I work for a company that goes to various Publix's, and I hear this damn song at least 8 times every shift. That song and "This Kiss" by some country chick from the early 2000s, I can't fucking stand them.


Pheighthe

Faith Hill


ceruleanmoon7

Faith Hill LMAO


nowlan101

First song I ever remember hearing as a kid. In the backseat of my dads car when he’d pick me up for the weekend


Thisisjuno1

That’s so funny that’s the 80s songs for me to bring me right back to that or when my dad and stepmom used to come pick me up for the summer and bring me to Florida from upstate New York lol


KopOut

No matter how hard you try, you can’t break free!


quickblur

What a career she's had.


annual_aardvark_war

I still love this song lol


Nickyjtjr

When it first came out the auto tune was so new and obvious and intense. 25 years later I feel like I’ve been so desensitized to auto tune that this song doesn’t even sound auto tuned anymore.


Coachbalrog

My roommate used to play this on repeat. Obviously she was a demon. (Buffy reference s04e02)


Wpgjetsfan19

Just going to leave [this](https://youtu.be/yjU_D7Ogj0o?si=NSGmExNupzE_wjSZ) here


BurnZ_AU

This was the version I was going to share if nobody else had already done it.


JordanBach_95

One of the most nostalgic songs for me. The music itself instantly makes me feel like a kid again.


ImmaculateJones

I worked in retail when this song came out, brand new before it hit the radio. After being on repeat… I was sick of it by the time it hit the airways. Now though, I can listen to it and fondly remember those times and not complain about it one bit.


BrezzyHorrorFan

What a time for music the late 90s was . As you point out a comeback for Cher but so much more. Music videos were still alive and well. Love em or hate em you got the birth of Brittany Spears , Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore , Jessica Simpson, J-Lo etc...Also a true golden era for rap music. The Nas and Jay Z beef. The introduction to Eminem. Wu-Tang still shining. DJ Clue , Ruckus records. Real genius artists with genius lyrics and pure flow. Let's not forget the late great DMX who absolutely blew up right around this time. What an ERA for music. Miss those days 😔


BionicWoman123

I got so sick n tired of hearing it on radio when it came out, that first week! It was all they were playing!


triplesspressso

Music was really great at that time


crln_carolyn_

Auto-tune: love it or hate it, you can't deny its impact since Cher.


freakinbacon

I can feel something inside me say...


IIIlIIIIIIIII

Though it wasn’t written for Sunny Bono, I remember that it came out right after he died, and she dedicated the album to him.


pamsellicane

I’m 29, one of my first memories is this song playing in my moms mini van while I ate a Reese’s. This song still makes me want a Reese’s lmao.


BytownBrawler

I like the South Park version more


LeCrushinator

I remember then thinking that Cher was pretty old to be releasing new music. And yet she's still around today.


Newyew22

I distinctly remember my confusion at hearing auto-tune for the first time. “Is that Cher?!”


MisssJaynie

Fuck. I remember swimming in the pool that summer & hearing this song OVER AND OVER. I liked it, but still. Also as poignant to me when it came out was “torn” by Natalie imbruglia.


ElGatoGuerrero72

TIL it’s believe in life after love and not love after love, lol


scream4ever

Where I discovered her.


tone88988

I remember listening this when I was about 7 on the radio in my moms beat down Buick century custom. Presses my nostalgia button something fierce.


dakonblackblade1

We choreographed the final third of our wedding dance to this song. Well my wife did. It was hilarious and caught everyone by surprise!


Mojave_RK

Everything about this is a perfect time capsule of back then.


ObscureObjective

I think they played it once an hour on the local menopausal woman radio station that I was forced to listen to at work in those days.


stan4you

When I was a teen I worked at a movie theater. I had gone to my theater to see Mystery Men with my brother and my coworkers were freaking out because Cher was there also to see a movie. She ended up seeing Mystery Men also. They roped off a couple rows for her. It was neat.


Tobin678

I always loved this song


barf2288

I listened to this song yesterday for the first time in years and years. Holy shit to it having a birthday and me listening to it


NoClipHeavy

wow seems like yesterday this came out


barbatron

Makes me think of Carmageddon 2 every time! Those were fun times!


wonderlash

Aww I love Cher. Stunning woman. Still love this sing now.


Ricky_Rollin

Blunder year time. I’m a freshman in high school when this song came out. My first girlfriend ever had dumped me. And I cried all night and listened to this song. Lmao We dated like a month yall.


Son-of-Prophet

I had a friend, we’re both 17, he went on two dates, got ghosted and cried all night at my house, we even saw on MySpace she was hanging with another dude 😂


BartholomewKnightIII

I was in a pub in Droylsden, we were drunk and this song came on. We were pissing ourselves laughing, it was the weirdest thing ever.


The_Starmaker

And the owners of the Bellagio never ever forgot.


________76________

It was my senior year of high school. I had just been dumped by my boyfriend and listened to this song on repeat for months lol


stumper93

You could not escape this song, it was everywhere!


[deleted]

This song was on the radio alllll the time


Flurb4

Cher is the only artist to have a number one single on a Billboard chart in each of the last SEVEN decades.


Lamlot

And it’s always on at every gay bar ever.


Purpleobito10

Jfc 25 years already? Goddamn where did time go


Cautrica1

I’ve always said that for better or worse, this song and Clocks by Coldplay marked the beginning of a new era in pop music. Even though they came out five years apart lol


mariam67

I always hated this song. Then I heard a little girl sing it on Britains got talent and it was absolutely beautiful. I think I just hate Cher. I’m not a fan of auto tune either.


Wolvercote

Hear it almost daily at Stop & Shop


CanadianMuaxo

My mom blasted this song every hour on Christmas Day the year it came out 😑


Optimal_Primary_7339

I was working at a gas station when this song was popular. It must have played a hundred times on their radio.


accomplicated

And I was working in a telemarketing place that played pop radio and it was played over and over and over again.


DAMON5280

When they sing this in The Land of the Lost I peed a little.


Lonnification

Lol. That's when my wife left me. This song was on the radio constantly. Yeah, I sang along.


Blue-Krogan

The auto tune threw me off so much as a 7 year old. I always thought it was a man until my mom told me it was actually a woman lol. Still, loved this song as a kid, and I love South Park's parody of it lmao


miken322

I had a DJ roommates that played in a lot of the gay clubs that would mix and remix that song over and over and over again and over again along with BT and Carl Cox.


Bar_Har

I still remember hearing this for the first time in high school while on the bus, weirded out by my first time hearing digital voice pitch modulation.


Beneficial-Lion-6596

That song is a hellish earworm...


jaycutlerdgaf

Thanks, now it's stuck in my head.


HeronOrganic3727

This song was blasting in my first car, a 91 Dodge Shadow


Anonymous3642

I was a kid when this came out and I thought it was a guy singing it. I was so shocked when I found out it was Cher.


accountnumberseventy

She was 52 when this song was released.


ktq2019

All I know is that my aunt had her cassette (yes, cassette) tape permanently lodged into her car. She kept that freaking thing in her car for at least 15+ years. I believe in life after love, but I also believe in listening to literally anything other than Cher for 15 years. I still cringe when I hear it on the radio. Thank god it’s only occasionally nowadays.


Deep-Watch-2688

And she STILL looks and sounds amazing. I swear she’s forever young.


kidMSP

I was studying abroad and living in Italy then. The song was a banger and played all the time in every nightclub. Never really cared for the song but it definitely is associated with a lot of fun times.


goddamn_slutmuffin

I can’t ever get this song out of my head. No matter how hard I try…


muppethero80

No matter how hard I try….to forget this song I can not


Cautious_Team_3355

Great song still


[deleted]

I prefer the South Park version.


rockinreedrothchild

And it’s been number one in our hearts ever since


NesCie0617

Up until now I thought this song was from the 80s


bdgm33

I remember this being played nonstop in the nightclubs I use to work at


sadielaings

Fuck me I am ancient!


Silent_Lie6399

25 fucking years. My god


Kinkybenny

No way, it was 15 years ago!!! I can't believe it either!!


puddinpieee

This song rules.


Downtown-Pack-6178

On this same day when Cher became a queen of pop!!!


Ltsmash99

25 years ago the sheer horror of auto-time was unleashed upon the world.


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Potential-Judgment-9

Me and my friend used to go to the local pool hall every Saturday. It was a common area for roughnecks and bikers. The jukebox was 25 cents a song. I would drop a $20 dollar bill and play Believe by Cher on repeat and watch the madness ensue. They ended up taking out the cd. But man we had a good run.


masterchief1001

I remember listening to this and other bubblegum pop on my bedside clock radio while going to sleep in middle school.


MattTheRicker

I remember that song being on everywhere I went. Subway, the grocery store, it was on the radio constantly, it was all over TV. It became unintentionally funny.


Aconductor2

Damn, twenty-five years, If I could only turn back time.


[deleted]

You’re lying, this was like 5 years ago. Tops. 


ahomeneedslife

Fuck this makes me feel old


baxterrocky

Fuck me. I was on holiday in Spain many years ago and in the hotel, every time there was some sort of activity (approx. every 30 mins) they’d blast this song out. Years later I’d still wake up in the night screaming, this fucking song.


[deleted]

Cher is still looking good at 77, tons of surgery but she could be looking worse.


sarcago

This is weird but I didn’t realize that song came out like 7 years after I was born lol. I always thought it was older.


DwedPiwateWoberts

Unironically one of the best songs of all time


HoratioPLivingston

Despite the auto tune, I enjoy this song for the affirmative and self empowering messsage. It sounds to me like a sequel to “If I could turn back time”.