my 10-step guide to the pleasures of Auto-Tune, for the skeptical.
In the current issue of Earplug.
this began as a “Top 10 List” but got more interesting…
excerpt:
#7. Cher, “Believe” (WEA)
This started it all: “Believe” is a song you still hear in supermarkets now, a full ten years after its release. Staying power! When the taut skin and other side-effects of repeat plastic surgery form their own aesthetic, can we think of it in terms of Auto-Tune?
6 out of 10 aint bad, I’ll try and swing some haters. I’ve been looking for Baako since you played it on your show, and I’m intrigued by Jahdan’s “dubplate that cracks heads” I’ll keep an eye out. Stay up rupture
“Do you beweeeve in lwooove after lwove.”
Hmmm, Jace, it’s going to take a bit to make me a convert. Even the songs I like, my ear tires of the strrreeeetch pretty quick. Will listen and report back…
Have you ever heard the Mammal remix of Kiss Kiss? T-Pain’s never sounded so majestic. I’ve only ever been able to find it on this Hudson Mohawke mix (http://www.sendspace.com/file/go8167); it starts about a minute in. Stirring stuff.