Auto-Tune

...than a novelty, but if musical iPhone app developer Smule can have a hit with something like I am T-Pain (which overlays your singing with Auto Tune technology), I could see plenty of iPhone owners embracing this, too - though it's a little...

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...the album itself, which expands on its predecessor's sonic palette-there are some danceable beats and even a dash of T-Pain-style Auto-Tune-without abandoning its uptown worldview. Though Batmanglij and front man Ezra Koenig call this a...

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...the Black Eyed Peas were. They were off-beat and off-key. And being off-key is especially bad when you're running your voice through an Auto-Tune, as it makes it sound even worse. Their version of "I Gotta Feeling" was especially bad. They...

In this article: Saturday Night Live, Betty Draper, Black Eyed Peas, Kim Kardashian, Seth Meyers, I Gotta Feeling, and Don Draper

...witty - a true Internet rarity! Below is Know Your Meme's latest episode (with guest host "Weird Al" Yankovic) on the endlessly parodied Auto Tune software: And after the jump, episodes for David After Dentist and Three Wolf Moon await.

...use during their live shows. Prerecorded vocals are mixed with live ones, which are in turn, massaged using pitch shifters and Auto-Tune techniques that iron out all the off-key moments. These knowing punters go along to a pop show...

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...making music when it was used to make Cher's hit song, Believe. In 2005, T-Pain started using Auto-Tune for nearly all of his vocals. Today, Auto-Tune is both ridiculed and cherished. There are those who make fun of Auto-Tune whenever...

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...use auto-tune, and those who feel that Auto-Tune is a ripoff. On June 5th, 2009, Jay-Z's D.O.A. (Death of Autotune) was released online. Auto-Tune had obviously become saturated in both mainstream media and user generated content, and the...

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...for "autotuner" returns 157,000 hits. A search for "autotuned" returns 283,000 and includes everything from "AutoTuned prank calls" to "The AutoTuned News". The Wikipedia page for "Pitch Correction" returns the text "An audio processor for...

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...of Music Monday will delineate only a few of the many ways that good music is slowly but surely leaving the airwaves. Culprit #1: Auto-Tune At some point, being able to actually sing stopped being a requirement for being a singer.

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...backtracks. Really, if you're into Britney Spears, it's not because of her incredible vocal ability. Unless you think a synthesizer and Auto-Tune are her natural voice. You're going to her concert because she's famous and controversial,...

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