T-Pain says he became depressed after Usher told him he "f*cked up music" with autotune.

[iamduval]

somebody should be telling usher the same thing about himself.

lol @ usher classifying himself as "real singers".

all these remedial male vocalists poppin up after confessions, are directly influenced by usher.

Usher isn’t a real singer? You sound like a cac

 

[zerorequiem]

He kind of did to be honest. And T-Pain sounds great without it, if you've watched his NPR Tiny Desk performance. He really didn't need it. It opened the floodgates for all these non-singing mfs to start using it. Now rappers use it and it's corny as fukk.

 

[Wepa Man]

no he didint he actually birthed a new generation

 

[GreenGhxst]

If you can really sing, autotune is that much better

fukked up is also subjective

 

[Splash]

Ursher just hatin

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

you're not suppose to tell it's been used when you tweak correctly it perfectly matches the pitch of the music with the voice

but that's how t-pain found autotune he heard the obvious effect on a vocal. people didn't know what it was called maybe in hip hop

dancehall.
2001


used heavily to assist this weak ass singer



The T-Pain Effect: How Auto-Tune Ruined Music... And Saved Hip-Hop

As a teenager and amateur producer living in Tallahassee, Florida, T-Pain heard the effect on the Darkchild remix of “If You Had My Love” and instantly felt compelled to recreate it.

Eifel 65 - i'm blue also used a pitch correction tool for their heavily altered repeated vocal on that dance hit. also late 98. even though it wasn't auto-tune specifically it did the same thing

 

[SadimirPutin]

It was an a$$hole thing to say

 

[etrofllenrod504]

Well I wouldn't blame Tpain for using autotune or making it popular. I would blame him for cosigning Wayne using it with all the mumble bullshyt Wayne was doing with it. When Tpain and Wayne started doing songs together using it, other rappers were like damn if Wayne can do that I can also. With Tpain featured on it with Wayne was indirectly saying it's ok to use this to a lesser quality. So I cant give him or Wayne a pass for that bullshyt

 

[Sad Bunny]

Well I wouldn't blame Tpain for using autotune or making it popular. I would blame him for cosigning Wayne using it with all the mumble bullshyt Wayne was doing with it. When Tpain and Wayne started doing songs together using it, other rappers were like damn if Wayne can do that I can also. With Tpain featured on it with Wayne was indirectly saying it's ok to use this to a lesser quality. So I cant give him or Wayne a pass for that bullshyt

Wayne so GOATED

This was the first time a rapper used it

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

I can hear Usher saying "yeah mane"

im crackin up

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Lets not put out this idea that T-Pain could ALWAYS sing. Because thats not the case at all.

BUT he didnt ruin music, it was all the people who copied after the fact.

 

[Stuntone]

Lil Wayne autotune really fukked it up.

 

[humminbird]

and Usher fukked up music by helping Bieber
Balanced out

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

This made me look for this

 

[Another Man]

This.

T Pain actually had talent to back up his autotune usage. I mean, the dude could actually sing. Now you got all of these tight jeans with the bulge ass rappers using the shyt WRONG and sounding like stirred fried cat shyt with the style