F–k Auto-Tune
With the upcoming release of Kanye’s “808s & Heartbreak” and Diddy announcing that his album will be sung with Auto-Tune, I feel like this is the perfect time to address this issue.
Cut that Auto-Tune sh!t out, it sounds horrible. Seriously, you’re not being unique or original, you’re just conforming to what one artist (T-Pain) has recently brought back to the mainstream and because of this I have absolutely no interest in listening to Mr. West’s new album. Same goes with any of the Auto-Tuned Lil’ Wayne, Diddy or any other artist. All of you are overdoing it, you’re jumping on the bandwagon and you’re looking like biters instead of the innovators you claim to be.
I also partially attribute all the artists that have jumped on the Auto-Tune bandwagon to just wanting to be singers, but they know they can’t sing. If that’s the case I’d rather listen to a track with you sounding like TBaby than a track with you using an Auto-Tune.
Of recent history the only artist to actually use Auto-Tune successfully has been T-Pain and that’s only been on hooks. As far as I’m concerned T-Pain should be the only artist that should be allowed to use it. Even with him it should be used in moderation. Now as I’ve mentioned before on this blog that I’m a fan of Royce’s “Love Lockdown” parody, but what makes the song good is the mockery behind it and the fact that he pulls it off just as good or better than the artists trying to seriously use Auto-Tune.
Before I end this post, I would just like to clarify the extent of distaste for the current use of the Auto-Tune. If an artist were to record, with Auto-Tune, over classic Dilla beats I would still qualify the tracks as absolute garbage. That’s how wack Auto-Tune is.
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hey Mos Don’t forget that Cher was the mainstream artist to first use autotune…
holla at cha boi.
don’t ask how i know that. i read a lot.
leave the singing to Ryan Leslie, IMO.
- G
Gerard
25 Nov 08 at 10:02 am
#1. first of many posts on your blog shoe-man.
#2. auto-tune was invented to COVER UP how bad someone sings, not SHOW IT OFF.
yeah, yeah, I get the novelty and everything but as Gerard already referenced; Cher used it … and murdered it years ago.
#3. ANNND if you intend to at least PRETEND to sound innovative with auto-tune please at least use some of it’s other mind bending features like formant correction and make yourself sound like a bonafied super-star hip hop transexual or something … it’s got some wild a$$ noise it can make my friends.
#4. both Puffy and Kanye haven’t done an original thing since with hip hop since they had all of their album’s rhymes ghost written for them.
sampling to the embarrassing extent that you guys do was cool in the 80′s a$$hat$ but the fact that I could poop out a remix of any song I want in about 5 minutes using the current technology shames your so called ‘skillz’.
I challenge them either of them to an original beat making contest … seriously. I’d s*** all over their deaf a$$e$.
my poop, their musical backside. 8 —> (_)(_)
#5. have either of those fools actually taken the time to listen to some electronic beats? I mean I know Kanye did as he is trying to bank of the musicallity of Daft Punk but sheezus can’t they admit to themselves they need to work on their production skills?
Dilla took beats seriously .. can’t the rest of these fools spend like 20 minutes a day learning how to use a sound that’s not a preset on a Korg Triton or sampled off of the work of someone else?
#6. Know who else is bringing back auto-tune?
the Jonas Brothers.
innovators (insert text version of me stabbing myself in the eyes with an effing chop stick)
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so anyway, they could at least tone it down and I’d be happy. hehe.
-Stephan
Stephan
28 Nov 08 at 1:53 am
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