10. T-Pain
It would be impossible to write an article about the computerised overkill of pop music without bringing up T-Pain. Undoubtedly the 'King' of auto-tune as well as the trendsetter who really brought the robot-voice trend to prominence T-Pain is like the joke you play at a party that nobody actually realises is such a thing. Instead of laughing, the pop world has embraced T-Pain and his go-to effect, turning auto-tune from a gimmicky tool into a bonafide musical movement. Popularised in hit songs like 'Buy U a Drank,' T-Pains liberal use ignited an age where digital effects are played off in pop music as an obvious stylistic choice (though other artists, including Cher and Kid Rock had previously used the robo-voice gimmick). Nowadays, T-Pain's auto-tune style is everywhere, from pop-radio to karaoke bars. He even went as far as to team up with a company called Smule for the development of a mobile app called 'I Am T-Pain,' which allows people to auto-tune their own voices in everyday situations. As far as the app is concerned, we're not sure if T-Pain is making fun of himself or trying to inflate his own self-importance. Either way, there is little down that Pain's digitised voice technique is just a temporary fad, and when it ends the guy's songs are going sound like the musical version of an old Microsoft operating system: decrepit, ugly, and nearly unbearable to listen to.
May 26, 2015 Cher's 1998 hit 'Believe' debuted the use of a technology called 'Auto-Tune', a pitch correcting software that has since changed the music industry. Jun 04, 2017 Auto tune is an automated but less precise version of pitch correction. Basically, autotune allows you to choose the key you’re working in so the notes you sing will be automatically adjusted to fit the closest note. That’s why auto tune makes you sound like a robot.