Love it or hate it, but mostly hate it, Auto-Tune is a sainted viral phenomenon for net-addicted post-millennials who ache to be robots. Evidently, it's still not too tired to deserve an online ...
It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...
Ed Ledsham explores the history of auto-tune... (Listen to Auto-tune Anthems on Spotify). "Auto-Tune is great for fixing vocals, but we use Auto-Tune in a way it wasn't designed to work. A lot of ...
In 2009, Jay Z tried to single-handedly declare Auto-Tune uncool and kill it for good with “D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)” on the “Blueprint 3.” No dice. Auto-Tune survives, but may now have been dealt a ...
Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Swamp Dogg has tried out plenty ...
We spend most of our days trying to be virtually perfect, so why should we care what singers really sound like? When we go to concerts, we don't bother looking at them. Instead, we hold up our cameras ...
It seems as if, in these waning weeks of our Music & Technology series, we've generated a contradiction. And as it has been so many times before, the resolution is -- wait for it -- Kanye West. On one ...
Brian Eno is a tireless champion of music technology, having worked at the bleeding edge of electronic music for five decades. But while he embraces innovation, he remains wary of its pitfalls. In a ...
This is T-Pain singing like you've never heard him before. — -- In the mid-2000s, while Jay-Z was still officially in retirement and long before Kanye West had been reborn as Yeezus, a guy named ...
There is nothing funny about an intruder entering a woman's bedroom. But when the story itself has a happy ending and then it falls into the hands of the Gregory Brothers and their Auto-Tune software, ...
The sound and feel of modern music was changed forever in the late 1990s when Antares launched its Auto-Tune pitch correction technology. As well as putting some life back into flat performances, the ...
The first thing I saw on Twitter this morning was a video of a cat letting out sweet, little T-Pain yowls. Joaquin Baldwin, a Disney animation artist, had auto-tuned his cat Elton and then made a ...