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  Shawty… Everything sounds better auto-tuned

  posted by matt | 04.23.09 | permalink | 2 comments

  Cher, T-Pain, and Kanye West are probably onto something with this Auto-tune vocal effect thing, but no-one perhaps sounds as good as Katie Couric. Michael Gregory (who you may recognize from this American Idol audition) and his brother Andrew Gregory decided to Auto-tune the news.

  The lyrics are below. This is the second installment of “Auto-Tune The News“. The first one is here.

  Auto-tune is a program by Antares that pitch corrects the voice. Over-correcting the voice processor makes it sound a little funky, which is the method Cher popularized in her song, Do You Believe back in the 1998s. When Jamie and I shared at office a number of years ago, we would listen to Mix 93.1 most days. For some reason it became a little tradition for me (and maybe Jamie too, I can’t remember) to stand on our chairs and dance whenever Cher’s Do You Believe came on the radio. Perhaps it was the entrancing nature of the Auto-Tune effect processor, who knows.

  Besides Cher, T-Pain has pretty much made his whole career using Auto-tune and bringing it into popularity with R&B and rap music. But his best work is probably I’m On A Boat with the dudes from The Lonely Island.

  Thanks to Jeff for cracking an egg of knowledge about this. Lyrics to Auto-Tune The News #2 after the break… (more…)

  

  Tags: american idol, andrew gregory, auto-tune, autotune, cher, gregory brothers, i'm on a boat, kanye west, katie couric, michael gregory, shawty, shortay, shorty, t-pain, the lonely island, the news

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