{"id":62,"date":"2022-04-14T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T02:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:25:30","slug":"the-fans-of-im-sprung-role-in-changing-pop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/the-fans-of-im-sprung-role-in-changing-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fans\u2019 of \u201cI\u2019m Sprung\u201d Role in Changing Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certain media outlets and a few influential artists certainly bashed T-Pain\u2019s robotic vocal style in \u201cI\u2019m Sprung when it was originally released in 2005, but the overwhelmingly positive reaction from fans trumped all of the surrounding negativity.\u00a0 Simply put, listeners loved T-Pain\u2019s unique vocal style.\u00a0 The evidence of this reaction lies in the amount of streams and views the song has received on streaming platforms.\u00a0 The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for twenty-six weeks and reached as high as the eighth most popular song in the United States in November of 2015.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This positive response to T-Pain\u2019s unique aesthetic was one of the main reasons why the technology survived the initial backlash.\u00a0 The fans assured that the vocal style stayed relevant enough for famous artists such as Kanye West to commit to using Auto-Tune for the foreseeable future.\u00a0 After time went by and T-Pain continued to release songs that were met with overwhelming positivity, artists in the pop, R&amp;B, and hip-hop spheres had no choice but to adapt Auto-Tune into their music in fear of losing their listener bases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-83 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-17-at-6.57.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"622\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T-Pain performs at his Electric Live set in 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain media outlets and a few influential artists certainly bashed T-Pain\u2019s robotic vocal style in \u201cI\u2019m Sprung when it was originally released in 2005, but the overwhelmingly positive reaction from fans trumped all of the surrounding negativity.\u00a0 Simply put, listeners loved T-Pain\u2019s unique vocal style.\u00a0 The evidence of this reaction lies in the amount of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/the-fans-of-im-sprung-role-in-changing-pop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fans\u2019 of \u201cI\u2019m Sprung\u201d Role in Changing Pop<\/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-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}