“It was… a choice,” Leo said, swallowing the lie. “Let me just… sweeten it.”
Inside the vocal booth, Persephone “Seph” Vox, the newly crowned “TikTok Tragedienne,” lowered her oversized headphones. Her voice, raw and untrained, echoed through the room. “How was that, Leo? Did you feel the anguish ?” autotune audacity
He opened his digital audio workstation. His cursor hovered over the pitch-correction plugin. Not the subtle, transparent one he used for Broadway veterans. No, this called for the heavy artillery: “It was… a choice,” Leo said, swallowing the lie