Looney Autotunes!

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This is a VERY different post from the normal ones but there is a reason!!

watch, enjoy, then read....(Trust me) Two videos - one here and one at the end of this post!





Basically - you lot KNOW me!! Selfed absorbed as hell lol. Na basically, on this blog, I try and differentiate myself from all the other blogs out there by ONLY posting self produced multimedia content be it mp3s, music videos, studio videos, home music videos etc...EVERY single one of my posts up until now, have been about ME!!

Aside from my self absorbtion (is that a word!?) its because I read ALOT of blogs and alot of them are either based on Kanye wests blog or just reiterate whatever he has on his blog, but a couple hours later - for me, the most interesting blogs, are the ones artists do about themselves - hence this blog.

I posted the video above, one because I find it very entertaining but also because it highlights a good point that this "Autotune" thing has gone a LITTLE too far!

A history lesson:

The original people that used the "tpain effect" with a studio tool called a vocoder or talk box, were Stevie Wonder, Roger Trump, and Teddie Riley. These dudes though were CERTIFIED musicians and also, when they done it, they had to play the notes that they wanted to sing - dunno if you remember seeing "blackstreet" on top of the pops but even to get this effect, was still a skill.

NOWADAYS though, the "tpain effect" is a result completely overusing and abusing a studio computer program called autotune which basically tweaks your voice when you sing ONE OR TWO notes off - pop stars have been using it for years. Tpain managed to find a new way to use it to replicate the vocoder effect - but please do not get it twisted - TPain believe it or not is a CERTIFIED musician - he can sing, and he plays keys..very well!!

These other dudes, (Including Kanye) I think, have been abusing it and have taken it too far and I think the video above highlights the fact now that ANYONE can use it to cheat make a DAMN GOOD SONG....

Controversial:

I reckon its cheating because I (in my humble opinion) think that singers talent lies in two places - lyrics and flow AND technical ability to sing...but MORESO technical ability to sing which is why it is fine for a singer to have a song writer, and why it is fine to stretch one word over the time it would take a rapper to say 20.

Rappers talent on the other lies in there lyrics and flow - lyrically, a rapper should ALWAYS be better than a singer!! the notes of the words can be anywhere - the more off the better even - there is not specific technical side with rap (like hitting the right note with the right amount of vibrato and dropping from falsetto to alto) which is why it is not acceptable for a rapper to have a ghostwriter. Its all and ONLY about lyrics and flow

Auto tune takes away the technical side of a singer and you are left with lyrics which alot of the time in these autotune songs (highlighted with the news song) are shallow as HELL!! which therefore takes away all talent from the song...

I dunno - all that was off the head - leave a comment on what you think about that...maybe ill say more later.
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