{"id":25,"date":"2022-04-13T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2022-04-24T13:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T17:29:48","slug":"a-new-sound-of-music-t-pain-auto-tune-and-their-impact-on-pop-music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/a-new-sound-of-music-t-pain-auto-tune-and-their-impact-on-pop-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Sound of Music: T-Pain, Auto-Tune, and Their Impact on Pop Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thesis<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through his use of Auto-Tune, pop singer Faheem Rashad Najm (T-Pain) broke down the barriers of contemporary American pop, hip-hop, and R&amp;B music in 2005 with the initial release of his hit song, \u201cI\u2019m Sprung,\u201d which was highlighted by T-Pain\u2019s robotic-sounding vocals and sliding pitches.\u00a0 Referencing T-Pain\u2019s unrelenting loyalty to his vocal style, the changes in industry vocal standards that followed the release of \u201cI\u2019m Sprung,\u201d and the positive response to the hit song among listeners, we argue that T-Pain should be recognized as the instigator of the contemporary robotic and polished sound that is found in popular music today.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/files\/2022\/04\/WireAP_d80fd8bcda3a4e17a86d9aa4295b6c7f_16x9_992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"285\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph taken of T-Pain in June 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis Through his use of Auto-Tune, pop singer Faheem Rashad Najm (T-Pain) broke down the barriers of contemporary American pop, hip-hop, and R&amp;B music in 2005 with the initial release of his hit song, \u201cI\u2019m Sprung,\u201d which was highlighted by T-Pain\u2019s robotic-sounding vocals and sliding pitches.\u00a0 Referencing T-Pain\u2019s unrelenting loyalty to his vocal style, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/a-new-sound-of-music-t-pain-auto-tune-and-their-impact-on-pop-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A New Sound of Music: T-Pain, Auto-Tune, and Their Impact on Pop Music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5566,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[211591],"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}