For a while now, music artists and fans, have been ranting about Auto-Tune. The more popular it’s gotten, the more complaining people have been doing. And I just want to know what the big fuckin deal is here…..First, you’ve got T. Pain.
T. Pain made some comments before about how he feels that artists owe him royalties for using Auto-Tune. Then somewhere else that it was only ok for artists like Kanye and Lil Wayne to use it….This dude done lost his mind!!!!
First of all, T. Pain is not the owner, the inventor, or even the first artist to use Auto-Tune. Really though! You can go back some years and hear pieces of songs, where they’d put Auto-Tune on an artist’s voice. Then you’ve got Cher, who pretty much used it on a full song. The fact that T. Pain made it the most popular doesn’t mean anything, accept that maybe Antares should cut him a check for a percentage of sales they’ve gotten since T. Pain became popular.
The reason it is so popular is because it makes someone who just can’t hit those notes, sound like they can. If you know someone who has Auto-Tune, tell them to let you try and sing something, and play your voice back with Auto-Tune on it…. You’ll be amazed that it’s you singing.
So if you didn’t invent it, and are knowingly not the first person to have a hit single using it, you can’t say anything about others use of it, or really even say that people are biting your style… Be content with the fact that when the masses hear a song with an artist using Auto-Tune on it, they think of you. T. Pain….
On another note, Jay-Z now wants the Auto-Tune era to die….
The only problem with this, is Jay-Z couldn’t control all the little Jigga wannabe’s that were popping up when his career was on an uprise… So I’m not sure how he thinks his saying the Auto-Tune era needs to die, is going to help, or make it die. I care that it has the potential of watering down hip-hop, but how can you really stop it?
Our grandparents said that our parents music wasn’t real music. Our parents say our music isn’t real music. And we say that our kids music is not real music!! So why complain about Auto-Tune and hip-hop artists using it (T.Pain is not a hip-hop artist by the way)! It’s really not that big of a deal. If the masses don’t like what Auto-Tune is producing, that music won’t be in demand….Besides, nothing lasts forever…
And the tradition goes on………….
Michael Jackson was not a hip-hop artist in any way, but his influence was larger than his own genre. He was the only artist of his kind. The biggest crossover artist of all time. Ever since the news broke of his untimely death, I’ve noticed the HUGE response from music fans of all genres, and especially from hip-hop artists and fans.
