{"id":65,"date":"2022-04-14T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2022-04-24T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T17:44:35","slug":"t-pains-legacy-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/t-pains-legacy-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of T-Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The effects of T-Pain\u2019s pioneering journey with Auto-Tune are evident in today\u2019s music scene, especially in the R&amp;B and hip-hop genres.\u00a0 Artists such as Future use the technology for the same robotic effect as T-Pain, but also use it to create a perfectionist, hollow sound when they rap.\u00a0 In addition, artists like Beyonc\u00e9 use Auto-Tune to create a truly perfect pitch in all of their songs.\u00a0 Today, T-Pain has remained relevant in the music world, winning the first season of \u201cThe Masked Singer.\u201d\u00a0 T-Pain had the following to say after winning the breakout show:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat was my, for lack of better terms, \u2018F&#8211;k you, everybody (moment),\u2019 \u201d T-Pain, 33, told the Daily News with a laugh. \u201cI have people that (have) just been doubting me my whole career and things like that because I&#8217;ve put some different aesthetic on my vocals than everybody else\u201d (Sblendorio, 1).<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-85\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/files\/2022\/04\/download-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"264\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T-Pain receiving an award from Nick Cannon after winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d, shown on FOX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T-Pain has cemented himself in the history books of modern music.\u00a0 When asked about his effect on the music industry in his interview with NPR, T-Pain replied with one simple phrase: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;ve changed the sound of music,\u201d he said (Najm, 1).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of T-Pain\u2019s pioneering journey with Auto-Tune are evident in today\u2019s music scene, especially in the R&amp;B and hip-hop genres.\u00a0 Artists such as Future use the technology for the same robotic effect as T-Pain, but also use it to create a perfectionist, hollow sound when they rap.\u00a0 In addition, artists like Beyonc\u00e9 use Auto-Tune &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/t-pains-legacy-in-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Legacy of T-Pain<\/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-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}