T-Painin pt 2 (sort of)
written by 4bars
written by 4bars
A quick google search states that the newest musical craze is either called Auto-Tune or Vocoder. There is also something called Talk box and this is the one you see with the tube in the mouth of the artist (quadruple pause, double no homo). After digging a little bit more, we’re gonna go ahead and refer to it as Vocoder, the following video also did the trick.
Everybody has used this device: Snoop, Hov (kind of), Yeezy, Weezy, Baby, Ciara, Chris Breezy, R. Kelly, Peter Frampton, and yes Roger Troutman. Like my man Just K said, there is a line that has to be distinguished between cats using this simply for the gimmick those who are being assisted artistically. Clearly this is terribly subjective but I think comparing what Baby did with it on the “Foolish” remix to what T-Pain has done with it is silly. Speaking of which the following link should quiet a lot of haters who always talk about T-Pain “can’t sang…” It’s a montage of Teddy P. performing live sans-Vocoder.
Now I pose the question of the weekend: Kanye West, arguably the best rapper in the game right now, used Vocoder on his newest single “Love Lockdown” on which he is not rapping at all but singing. Now I’ve had this debate with several people who feel like the Vocoder has been overused and are tired of Kanye in particular using it. My personal feeling is that his use of it in this song and others (“Put On” remix in particular) fall into the “artistic assistance” category because Kanye is trying to sing and it has been documented that he cannot. So otherwise he’d have to have somebody else perform lyrics to a song that is clearly heartfelt and personal. Whatchu think: Tired of the gimmick or artistic genius?
3 comments:
T Pain was the one that said he couldnt sing as well when he first came up. He said he was a rapper then starting singing with the voice, its actually a plug in called "Auto-Tune". He probably got some good voice lessons over the time.
And for Kanye, this a direct quote from his blog about Love LockDown haha, "If you don't like autotune... too bad cause I love it and have been using it since the College Dropout!"
Good post kid. And yeah we should differentiate between when someone like Baby (keep in mind, i didn't hear the song but Baby doesn't get the benefit of the doubt artistically) uses it and what T-Pain has managed to do.
Having said that, i won't go as far to say its artistic genius. When its done right and it sounds good, I'm all for it. But when its overdone, like anything else, i get tired and bored of it and it loses its quality. I felt the same way about music being chopped & screwed. When the people who knew what they were doing did it, it sounded all kinds of dope. Then every song came out trying to copy it and it got corny.
Yeah i read what Ye wrote I just hope he's not changing his formula altogether because nothing he ever made sounded like "Love Lockdown".
Ok listened to Baby's verse. I was right.
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