Let me be clear about one thing: In the past 6 months - and intensifying in the past 2 - I have grown to hate the vocoder. Autotune is singlehandedly killing pop music. It was fine when Cher used it. It was understandable when Kid Rock broke it out for Only God Knows Why. I was even alright with it when Mr. Robot Rapper himself, T-Pain, came on to the scene as the exclusively autotuned mechanical voice. But seriously, folks, this business is crazy.
New Kids On The Block use autotune on their new album (please don't ask how I know this). Kanye's upcoming album features vocoded after vocoded track. Lil Wayne has started using it more and more and more. It's not good.
All of a sudden, people who can't sing (see above) think they're allowed to sing. Why? Because of the Robot Thingy. This is like the musical version of Crystal Pepsi - "futuristic", totally in vogue, and crappy. Please. Make. It. Stop.
This post, however, is the most hypocritical in the history of the universe. Because I'm posting a track that makes extensive use of Autotune. Why am I permitting it? Four reasons:
1. T-Pain has some sort of right to use the Vocoder, since without it he wouldn't be able to feed his family.
2. When someone who can actually sing uses autotune (as in the case of JT here) it sounds pretty decent.
3. At the end of the track, T-Pain himself proclaims that "Auto-Tune is on its way out"
4. The song is damn catchy.
So here it is, the remix of Can't Believe It, with some smooth metallic stylings of a rapper turnt sangah and a sangah turnt different genre of sangah. I don't know why this song is so good, but I can't stop listening to it.
As an added bonus, Ludacris basically sums up my feelings on the Vocoder on his latest mixtape with the track The Vocalizer. Dead on and pretty funny - pull over, Luda got somethin' to say.
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