Let's get this out the way now: T-Pain pioneered the creative use of Auto-Tune in Hip Hop when he treated the pitch correction software as an expressive instrument rather than just a corrective tool.

When I was a kid in the 1990s, Mariah Carey released one of the most popular songs from her catalog, “Hero.” As a tiny aspiring “Star Search” contestant, I brought it into my first day of voice ...

Released late Friday, Jay-Z’s new single, “D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune),” from the now thoroughly-announced The Blueprint 3, is less a Martin Luther-like cry for hip-hop reformation than an awkward slab ...

In a recent social media post, T-Pain, a prominent figure in the music industry known for his distinctive use of auto-tune, addressed an old photo of Christina Aguilera wearing a controversial T-shirt ...

Various decades have their musical signature, like the excessive use of synthesizers and hairspray in the 1980s pop music scene. Likewise, the early 2010s was marked by a fairly extreme use of ...

Musicians The Gregory Brothers have made a name for themselves by Auto-Tuning the news and turning politicians and crime victims into unintentional vocalists and celebrities. Now they’ve released a ...

American Idol has already run eight seasons. Since its debut in 2002, watching non-singers belting out of tune has become an amusing addiction. When Karaoke was introduced in the 80's from Japan, it ...

We showed love to Browz for his club banger "Pop Champagne" and put it on our 25 Greatest Auto-Tune Songs list, but by the time he released "Gimmie $20 Dollars" it was kind of obvious that dude was a ...

There are few musical technologies that are as ubiquitous, maligned and misunderstood as Antares’ Auto-Tune. What was conceived in 1997 as a discrete tool for cleaning up vocals and optimizing the ...

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...