Public Disservice Announcement: AutoTune Sucks

Tune the nearest radio to any station that plays music made within the past five years...I'll wait. Ok, hear that robotic voice emanating from your speakers? That's called AutoTune, and it's ruining pop music. Though the program's creator intended it as a means to tweak vocals to meet the proper pitch, artists more commonly use it because they get a kick out of sounding like R2D2; throwing true talent to the wind. Watch the video for more. You're welcome.

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[TackyRackyComixNEO]

Auto-tuning could be used to good (see Daft Punk), but it's really way too overused and really lowers the credibility of music (especially when it is used for pitch correction and other such minor tweaks--I don't care that the vocals weren't sterile-perfect as long as it sounds good for the most part, plus, there's always doing another take).

[Thek213]

When will the music industry realize that autotune belongs in house, techno, and trance? Not pop, and not rap!

[troysvisualarts]

You're spot on there mate! Every bloody song I hear on top 40 these days is AutoTuned!!! I personally decided to make a pisstake AutoTune song sing at my absolute worst to prove that any douchebag can do it lol, you'll see it in the video response.

[catholiccontriversy]

It should only be used in techno or something where it's supposed to sound like a robot. Otherwise it sucks

[beefygoblin]

@pannoni1

Actually there is a lot of good music being produced today... it doesn't sell. Perhaps this is because the industry choses to push the banal. Radio stations play what they are given.

The only reason the 90s had such good music is that the industry decided to take a risk and classify music by region. The "seattle sound" eventually became "grunge" and it was made up of an eclectic mixture of different styles.

Maybe when they are done blaming pirates for lackluster sales...

[beefygoblin]

Actually the programs creators intended to find oil...

[Elmware]

I totally agree. I even created a facebook group called "Stop using Auto-tune - It sounds like crap" because I hate how it's ruining music today.

There was a time when the requirements to get a record deal was that you had to be able to sing. It's not like that anymore. Use of Auto-Tune is like having an auto-mechanic with no degree in medicine perform surgeries on patients just after watching a few howto videos on YouTube.

[y34r]

@devdesmusic amen to that

[danielbijan]

I Don't Use Autotune!

[Ca20494]

I hate how rap forced its way into electronic music by using this disgusting autotune. DEATH TO AUTOTUNE

[reekashade]

The human race is being controlled by guilt and corruption a self hate prophacy is destroying thier belief in mankind,best foot forward.We will survive?

[waluigithecool2]

It's OK if you use it once and a while only to fix a couple of wrong notes. That's perfectly fine. But overusing it ruins the emotion that drives the song.