Blog Feed: Auto-Pain 2.0

Your regularly scheduled program

Published on 2009-11-16 16:57:53

My apologies for the silence over the past month. Regular posts to Auto-Pain 2.0 will resume within ten days, rest assured! In the meantime, Posted in Uncategorized > read more

My deepest sympathy

Published on 2009-10-16 16:17:53

Let’s keep an eye on this as it develops, but, if only for the sake of this blog, I find it hard to believe T-Pain has laid Auto-Tune (and that $400,000+ chain!) to rest once and for all. Posted in Uncategorized > read more

Responding to a comment…

Published on 2009-10-15 06:43:25

A reader left the following response to my previous post: “Dr. Auto-Pain, Is the flange what is used to make Carl’s voice match the rhythmic profile of the instruments? Your use of the phrase “entry level” leads me to ask if you are sugge > read more

Carl Sagan, Auto-Tune & the dilettantes of hip hop

Published on 2009-10-08 17:19:49

Several weeks ago this remarkable video—featuring an Auto-Tuned version of everyone’s favorite astronomer Carl Sagan and beloved physicist Stephen Hawking—ascended into the blogosphere. Circulating from YouTube to NPR, it is noteworthy on sever > read more

Where’s homegirl’s bra?

Published on 2009-09-24 08:58:07

This week marks the first official leak (“Take Your Shirt Off”) from T-Pain’s upcoming album RevolveR (what happened to UBER?). And even the hastiest exegesis reveals that homegirl has, for reasons undisclosed, decided not to wear a bra to the > read more

REVIEW: Kid Cudi, Man on the Moon: The End of the Day

Published on 2009-09-22 23:11:22

An album comes along every once in a while that is intriguing, challenging, remarkable or otherwise worthy of comment. ————————————————– The music i > read more

Charity and high stakes: or, is rap the future of rap?

Published on 2009-09-21 10:29:11

The weekly ‘Web content’ post spotlights Auto-Tune in basements, garages and bedrooms across the web—in other words, tracks using the “I am T-Pain” iPhone app and similar technology. I cast the net wider with this post, however. Last week, > read more

T-Pain as/and Jesus

Published on 2009-09-17 14:44:02

In the opening entry to this blog (available here), I suggested that T-Pain cultivated a messianic persona. In other words, T-Pain projects himself as the savior of hip hop by aligning himself with Jesus, a slightly better known messiah. A rather pre > read more

Enough already?

Published on 2009-09-14 14:53:05

T-Pain’s vigilant watch over Auto-Tune is well known. He teaches his techniques to others, and he rebukes those who emulate him. He has even hinted at a moral code for using the voice-altering software, telling Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker, > read more

Introducing the Ringleader

Published on 2009-09-10 09:19:53

Hip-hop albums commonly open with a track—occasionally titled ‘introduction’ or, simply, ‘intro’—that is designed to set the stage for the rest of the album. Certain themes, or tropes, recur within these introductions, and the geography t > read more