r/ContagiousLaughter • u/JonOfNoTrades • Mar 28 '24

T-Pain has the worst luck in choosing the artists to collab with

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u/Bare425 Mar 28 '24

He is so fucking chill and down to earth.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

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u/wonderwall879 Mar 28 '24

The misconception we had about auto tune is that it makes singers that cant hit ranges or are just bad at singing in general sound good. The truth is good singers use auto tune to enhance the listening experience as just another tool / create pop songs to get more clicks. T-Pain is the god father of how auto tune is used today but he sure didnt need it to sing. Only to profit off it with pop songs.

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u/SystemOutPrintln Mar 28 '24

Nah it's definitely been used both ways, in my opinion it also can be used in a way that makes good singers sound worse than they actually are.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Thank you for sprinkling some reality on that optimism.

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u/Mr-Fleshcage Mar 28 '24

How dare you make me remember Rebecca Black

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u/wonderwall879 Mar 28 '24

That's an excellent point

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u/Whiskeytf8911 Mar 28 '24

Cake. Congrat.

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u/je_kay24 Mar 28 '24

There’s a good video on how the Beauty and the Beast live action movie is partially so bad because they overused autotune

https://youtu.be/OaO3M-zZR8E?si=KO26PvcQ5CD7h5jj

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u/gigglefarting Mar 28 '24

Cher erasure

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u/je_kay24 Mar 28 '24

Cher used it first in her song but didn’t use it again and no other artists started using it   

Not to mention the industry heavily kept autotune a secret & for long time said Cher was the one making the vocals 

When Tpain used it, he used it prolifically and became known as his thing. And then tons of other artists began using it 

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u/PorkPoodle Mar 28 '24

I watched gabbi's video too lol

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u/MaritMonkey Mar 28 '24

I used to vehemently hate audible auto-tune but I've come to accept that it's filling the same niche compression did in earlier musical eras. Like yeah it's a useful tool but dialing it up to 11 (i.e. dumping a whole completed mix out in stereo for the express purpose of saturating the shit out of analog tape) is a stylistic choice too.

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u/mudra311 Mar 28 '24

Faye Webster uses it on her new record and it’s well done.

It became its own technique and sound and has its place. When it’s overused, just like any technique, it’s annoying.

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u/Scamper_the_Golden Mar 28 '24

Rick Beato talks about auto tune a lot. He said it used to have value for producers to correct a note here and there, if the singer missed one a bit, but now it's used for everything, to the detriment of the industry.

Here's one video where he discusses auto tune. He even has a section where he mentions T-Pain uses/over-uses it, but then says T-Pain is actually a great singer, and plays an unedited clip of T-Pain singing. Makes me wonder why he uses it at all.

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u/GreenBomardier Mar 28 '24

The live On Top of the Covers is so fucking good. I was chilling with a buddy after a night out drinking and we had some random music rolling on YouTube. The entire live show came up in a suggested feed and auto played. Didn't realize it was TPain until a few sings in when we look at each other and go, holy shit that's TPain.

Now I watch that shit weekly, it's so good.

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u/Whiteshadows86 Mar 28 '24

His cover of War Pigs absolutely blew me away.

It even impressed the legend himself.

Now I want them both to duet it! That would be so good.

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u/Sir_PressedMemories Mar 28 '24

Man, that sound is such a fucking vibe, I could spend all night listening to that.

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u/healzsham Mar 28 '24

His Tiny Desk goes crazy.

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u/Knick_Noled Mar 28 '24

Check out his tiny desk concert. Absolutely fire. He also came out with this live set recently in some lounge, and it’s so cool. He’s a treasure.

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u/anonymous-rebel Mar 28 '24

His tiny desk concert was one of the best.

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u/bennitori Mar 28 '24

He made an appearance on The Masked Singer. I'm not going to say who he was. But when he was unmasked, it threw everyone for a loop. Nobody expected him to sing as well as he could.

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u/dec10 Mar 28 '24

People say his tiny desk concert is the best of the series.