Steve Perry, the former singer for Journey, recently criticized the use of Auto-Tune. He spoke to Kyle Meredith about the pitch-correction technology in a recent interview. You can listen to their ...

Steve Perry is decrying the prevalence of Auto-Tune, the popular audio tool used for pitch correction and vocal effects. "Auto-Tune has turned everybody into the same singer," the former Journey ...

American Idol has already run eight seasons. Since its debut in 2002, watching non-singers belting out of tune has become an amusing addiction. When Karaoke was introduced in the 80's from Japan, it ...

T-Pain says he fell into a four-year-long depression after Usher told him that his use of Auto-Tune wrecked the music industry. The rapper makes the stunning revelation on the upcoming Netflix series ...

Typically, the music-streaming public remains at arm’s length when it comes to tricks and tips that artists use in the recording studio — it’s too nerdy, too complicated, and only useful to obsessives ...

There’s no sound more prominent in rap right now than that of Auto-Tune. Since the mid 2000s, seasoned OGs like T-Pain and Lil Wayne have finessed the vocal effect into a hit-making cheat code. Based ...

Two thousand and eight was not just a defining time for me, but for the world, for it was the year of auto-tune. Think about it. In 2008, Lil Wayne dropped Tha Carter III; T-Pain was gracing the radio ...

Auto-Tune can serve as an additive or a crutch, but it has opened the floodgates for a relentless wave of untalented goons in the mainstream. The constant Auto-Tuning of vocals begets formulated, ...

Linda Diaz and Arthur Buckner uncover how Auto-Tune became THE in-demand tool for studios. Thanks to artists like T-Pain, Cher, and Kanye West, Auto-Tune went from being an industry secret to an ...

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Believe it or not, Cher's dance anthem "Believe" has just turned 20 years old. The song, released on Oct. 22, 1998, kicked off a Cher renaissance, cemented her role as a pop icon and popularized a ...

T-Pain has become a music icon for his use of auto-tune, but it is also the reason for a dark period in his life. On Netflix's This Is Pop, which explores hidden truths about some of the biggest ...