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04 Oct 2009 23:22

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Culture: T-Pain rips off “Autotune the News” (with their help)

  • There was always a ramshackle quality to the way that the kids from “Autotune the News” did their routine. Now, T-Pain’s doing his best impression of it on Kimmel. We originally thought it was a ripoff, but the Gregory Brothers helped them bring it to reality.
    Update: @sclev pointed out that an earlier version of this post was inaccurate. Thanks, bro.
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01 Oct 2009 20:11

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Music: Thousands of people want to sound just like T-Pain

  • 300,000 downloads of the T-Pain autotune iPhone app since its launch three freaking weeks ago, which sounds like a pretty successful app
  • $5,000 and a gold chain are up for grabs in the app’s “I’m on a Boat” YouTube contest; get your autotune game together, guys source
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17 Jun 2009 08:44

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Culture, Music: Must-see video of the day: Taylor Swift + T-Pain, “Thug Story”

  • Usually, we wait a little while before posting our first video of the day. But this Taylor Swift-goes-hardcore bit from last night’s CMT Music Awards is too good to wait for. BTW, Swift killed at last night’s awards. source
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29 May 2009 14:07

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Culture: Must-see: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, live-action, this Sunday

  • about The super-niche experiment in comedy surrealism may hit its most surreal point on Sunday, For its season finale, the show will go live-action this Sunday, nearly didn’t run, and may run with a disclaimer. Ooh.
  • stars Even better are the actors they got to play the characters. They got auto-tune expert T-Pain as Frylock. They got underground comic Jon Benjamin as Shake. And best of all, they got a contest winner to play Carl. source
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27 Apr 2009 10:20

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Culture, Offbeat: Dear 4chan’s moot: Congrats on topping the Time 100!

We argue that No. 34 T-Pain or No. 37 Barack Obama might be more influential, but enjoy your moment, 4chan! source
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23 Apr 2009 08:49

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Offbeat: Katie Couric is a great singer when she’s auto-tuned

This auto-tuned take on TV news starts off slow but once Katie Couric starts “singing,” it becomes amazingly epic. source
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07 Feb 2009 10:42

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Music: Auto-Tune’s creator: I never intended it to be used T-Pain-style

  • If you set it to 10, that means that the output pitch will get halfway to the target pitch in 10 milliseconds. But if you let that parameter go to zero, it finds the nearest note and changes the output pitch instantaneously. I never figured anyone in their right mind would want to do that.
  • Andy Hildebrand • who created Auto-Tune based on seismic autocorrelation techniques he learned in the oil industry. He designed it to be unnoticeable (in the article, super-producer Rick Rubin says it’s used even more than you think), but producers found creative ways to break it. Now Kanye West uses it to make breakup albums. He should be proud! • source
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