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Auto-Tut's Accomplishments

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Auto-Tune is a remarkable achievement, and unlike other music technologies that developed progressively overtime, Cher’s single ‘Believe’ ultimately revolutionized Auto-tune as she sold over 10 million copies and unveiled the technological achievement to the world, and T-Pain discovered that secret and released two of the best selling albums of 2007 and 2008, which made him ultimately successful. Kanye West and Lil’ Wayne also took advantage of Auto-Tone when they released their albums in 2008. The success of Auto-Tune is also traced to the fact that its robotic quality appealed all audiences, meaning that Auto-Tune still maintains the artist's vocal abilities, but it enhances their voice by making it sound electronic. (Michael Freeman, 2009).

Auto-Tune is a mandatory technology nowadays as all singers use it to perfect their vocals. It allows producers to shorten their work time by copying the same phrases over different parts of the song so that artists would not have to waste their vocal stamina by repeating them. cut a phrase and paste somewhere else along the song, but to make sure the cuts match up. One article quotes a Grammy-winning recording engineer who said that “It [Auto-Tune] usually ends up just like plastic surgery”. The unidentified engineer also mentioned that “You haul out Auto-Tune to …show more content…

The issue with criticism towards Auto-Tune is that it is also directed towards legendary pop stars like Kanye West, T-Pain, Future, Desiigner, etc. who are actually talented musicians. Just because a talented artist uses Auto-Tune doesn’t mean that they are talented. There is an easy way and a hard way for people to make it to the top of the music industry, but in order for that to work for a prolonging time, the artists have to be

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