What happens when a tape runs too slow, a singer tracks at the wrong speed, or an engineer forgets to reset the machine — and the mistake turns out to be the song? This episode chases the strange psychoacoustics of pitch manipulation through six decades of recorded music, from the sped-up vocal stacks of early rock and roll through Dolly Parton's voice on a slowed-down reference tape to the chopped-and-screwed scene in Houston and the modern hyperpop producers who treat pitch as a weapon. Turns out some of the most emotionally devastating moments in recorded music were never supposed to sound that way. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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