Britney Spears isn’t the first—or the last—person to use auto-tune. What’s the big deal?
That’s the attitude producer William Orbit adopted after an unedited version of the song “Alien,” off Spears’ 2013 album Britney Jean, leaked online last week. He even defended her on Facebook—multiple times. When he first stood up for Spears, he wrote, “Warming up is essential if you’re a pro, as it is with a runner doing stretches, and it takes a while to do properly.” Spears has yet to address the controversy.