Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music

Enemy of Music

Believe

Labels: hip-hop, pop

posted by DJMonsterMo at 6:11 PM

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5 Comments:

Bro, if it sells, why not use it? Akon, T-Pain and Chris Brown are top selling artists. You like Lil Wayne? Cuz bout half of America does. He used Auto Tunes in Lollipop. STILL a huge hit. Get over yourself. All my friends love listening to the music with or without it, it makes no defference to us. You're just paranoid. Why not lay off Hip-hop and let it do what it does. Because the truth is, Auto Tunes is here to stay bro. So either get over the fact Auto Tunes is being uses, or don't listen to music anymore.

By Anonymous, at 8/11/2008 03:40:00 AM

No more originality. Everyone just rips off of each other.

By SOIA, at 3/04/2009 04:31:00 PM

To the first poster,
"If it sells, why not use it?"
Would you sell your arm if someone wanted to buy it?
Also just making something to sell it is not showing you have a love for something you do. You wont last long in a Music career that way.

Trust me and many others on this, you WILL get annoyed with this sound in giving time.
It really doesn't give originality to a song,just repetitiveness when not used correctly.

This sound isn't only in Hip Hop and RnB it is also in dance music btw.

You're right Auto Tune is here to stay, it is the overuse and abuse of it that will be gone sooner or later. It's a trend just like the iPhone, and many other things.

By Anthony, at 5/09/2009 01:40:00 AM

I have to agree with you, Anthony. I think this clip from youtube really says it all about autotune (and the news!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fngEnIkz44

By Catriona, at 6/12/2009 07:55:00 AM

Akon vocalises his voice but not with Auto tune. And I think that Auto tune is part of the music now. I'm sure not all the people into the 60's, 70's and 80's wanted music to change. Music is changing all the time because lets face it, songs nowadays get "old" REALLY fast because new music is being released everyday. Music is now changing to using Auto tune, and I happen to like the effect it has.

By Jacob, at 6/19/2009 01:59:00 AM