There are few musical technologies that are as ubiquitous, maligned and misunderstood as Antares’ Auto-Tune. What was conceived in 1997 as a discrete tool for cleaning up vocals and optimizing the ...
Let's get this out the way now: T-Pain pioneered the creative use of Auto-Tune in Hip Hop when he treated the pitch correction software as an expressive instrument rather than just a corrective tool.
If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...
In a recent social media post, T-Pain, a prominent figure in the music industry known for his distinctive use of auto-tune, addressed an old photo of Christina Aguilera wearing a controversial T-shirt ...
Cher was itching for a hit. The year was 1998, nearly a decade since her last Top 10 single, “Just Like Jesse James.” The Goddess of Pop was no stranger to comebacks, though — she famously made them ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper T-Pain is known for using the Auto-Tune pitch corrector, which disguises off-key singing and allows for perfectly tuned vocals, and for all those who want to sound like ...
If you ask me, Auto-Tune has been overused and abused for years. But I do think it has a place in some instances, and the HeadRush VX5 now brings Auto-Tune to live performances at the tap of a toe. It ...
PinkPantheress delivered her first ever performance for NPR's long-running Tiny Desk Concert series last week, visiting NPR HQ to present a varied setlist that translated her largely electronic TikTok ...
"I didn't tell everybody else to start using it," T Pain said on Netflix's "This Is Pop," when Usher told him that criticism.