*expletives deleted*
while t-pain uses the autotune a lot, its a pretty damn obvious use of it for the sound effect
the thing that shits me is when you get turds like britney and ashlee simpson using it, hell, even t-pain can sing without the autotune, he just calibrates it really roughly... when they use it on girls (lip synchers i should say) like britney etc its tuned much tighter.. thing is that shit is destroying the music industry from within. i'd be outraged, if it wasnt having a spectacular blowback effect upon the listeners and the industry..
point in case.... black eyed peas
not many people know this, but back before they got that post-methamphetamine scrag fergie, they used to be one hell of an underground hiphop act.... download 'bridging the gaps' and 'behind the front' if you want to hear the black eyed peas before they sucked... as soon as they got fergie, they sold out and focused upon selling records rather than producing real good music, and for that they should be vilified and hated for the sell out capitalist cops they are... sadly, I have to confess that I did infact download their subsequent albums, and after listening to each one, I deleted that herpes infected shit off my hard drive before my entire computer caught cooties
i downloaded their latest cd, and the entire f**king thing is saccharine pop bullshit, each song uses the autotune, even in places they dont>have< to.... I felt raped from having downloaded a 60meg zip of their album, and I felt noticably dumber after having listened to that POS....
Moral of the story, autotune = shit at best, apocryphal at worst, same goes for the black eyed peas. they used to be down, now theyre just sell out clowns
-D