Next time you are tempted to quantise one of your songs to within one beat of its life, you may want to check out this site that shows the tempo plot of virtually every song you can think of.
Above you can see the tempo map to ‘So Lonely’ by The Police, a super group with a monster list of hits - as you can see the tempo of the song deviates more than a drunk driving in the dark on an icy road. I’ve seen The Police three times, twice in 1980 and 1981 and about 7 years ago when they reformed, they can play, make no doubt about it.
Modern technology has conditioned many into thinking that everything needs to be time corrected and autotuned to buggery.
How about we all stop doing it and remember some of the biggest hits of all time were neither in time or in tune - excellence is good, perfection perhaps not?
Source: http://labs.echonest.com/click/