Kiely Williams Addresses Memes About Her Seeming Lisp In 3LW Songs
Last week, Williams appeared on Entertainment Tonight and revealed that she actually doesn’t have a lisp at all, despite it sounding like she had one on the first verse of the group’s 2000 hit song “No More (Baby I’ma Do Right).”
In the first verse, she sings “I’m getting tired of your broken promises, promises. Looking at your pager seeing different numbers and numbers.”
But during a June 9 interview with ET, Williams explained what really happened and why it sounded like she had a lisp.
“A really long time ago, ancient times, before there was Pro Tools where you could just auto-tune on the machine, there was a plug-in and it was in a studio. It’s a plug-in box and it was called an Antares, and this machine, like all of new technology, was a little hinky. And when they went to mix my vocals, the Antares corrected the notes, but gave me a lisp. There’s no other explanation for it. If you turned the Antares off, I didn’t have a lisp, but all my notes were wrong. So they were like, ‘Which one is better?’” Williams said.