{"id":38,"date":"2018-02-14T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/template-mus122\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2018-04-22T02:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T06:37:52","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction: Auto-Tune and T-Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 1998 creation of auto-tune transformed singers\u2019 voices into \u201cstudio creations\u201d and enhanced the importance of music in the market by changing performers voices into their most appealing form while creating a popular yet enjoyable sound. The impact of auto-tune includes developing the melody and timbre of singers by using technology which has allowed artists such as T-Pain to achieve such musical success. The notable progression and change of auto-tune over the years has helped T-Pain create highly favored entertainment such as his popular hit \u201cBuy U A Drank\u201d.\u00a0T-Pain\u2019s use of auto-tune in his 2007 release of \u201cBuy U A Drank\u201d transformed the sound of traditional hip hop melodies along with adding melodic hooks to an increasingly popular club culture.\u00a0While many listeners assume that auto-tune is used to mend vocal imperfections, this is not always the case. Artists like T-Pain used it for creative purposes. These creative purposes include a wider range, change in timbre, and smoother hooks. Auto-tune technology, therefore, added a robotic and electric spin to the otherwise traditional rap song.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dBrRBZy8OTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1998 creation of auto-tune transformed singers\u2019 voices into \u201cstudio creations\u201d and enhanced the importance of music in the market by changing performers voices into their most appealing form while creating a popular yet enjoyable sound. The impact of auto-tune includes developing the melody and timbre of singers by using technology which has allowed artists such as T-Pain to achieve such musical success. The notable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introduction: Auto-Tune and T-Pain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3935,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}