Auto-tune: Herald of the apocalypse?

We've all heard the auto-tune before.

It's that wonky machine that made Cher's song "Believe" so damned interesting.

Expect here's the important part;

When Cher used the Auto-tune, she used it to make one of the weirdest harmonies ever, by singing in third intervals to the auto-tune corrected voice.

Then there's the man I believe to be the not-so-metaphorical horseman of pestilence in my musical apocalypse.

T-Pain.

Hey T-Pain! I hate you!

Yeah. I said it. The auto-tune works by taking whatever you sing, and correcting the pitch to preset notes, which is an imperfect science, so thats where we get the electronic sound from.

This is fine when used sparingly, like Cher's hit, or Snoop Dogg's "Sexual Eruption"

But T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and all the other rappers who are using it to build whole albums, and create their own "Style", need to just go away.

The problem is, anyone can use an auto-tune. You can just speak into it and it works.

Here's an example.

Kanye is actually just yelling at the guy, but the auto-tune is making him sound like he's singing.

This is it's demonic capability.

BRING BACK THE BLUE NOTE!'

So I'll leave you with some good music, and some rappers who HAVEN'T SOLD OUT.

Phi Life Cypher - "Babylonians"