There's still a few places that song can't go, because even a decade later, it's ahead of its time. Probably even "I'm 'n Luv (Wit a Dancer)" couldn't pass muster. "I'm 'n Luv (Wit a Stripper)" didn't make the cut either time. To commemorate the 10-year anniversary of T-Pain's debut album and the one-year anniversary of his appearance, NPR invited him back last week for a command performance. Certainly the novelty was the draw for those who had. This could be due to the instinctive love a certain demographic has for R&B or hip-hop only when it's recontextualized and stripped down, but an audience who'd never heard T-Pain probably just saw an enchanting soul singer. "Buy U a Drank" unplugged turned out to be a smash with NPR listeners. Chorus - T-Pain (x2) MJG Im in love with a stripper, I need to get some stripper counselin Cuz Im the first one in the front row when they make a stripper announcement I think Im fallin in love with the one with the most a Thin, lil bitty waist, Ima go and buy that b a Volkswagen MJG, pimp tight, no mo tippin stop the bill If. Last year, T-Pain recorded the most popular Tiny Desk Concert in NPR history, accompanied by a lone keyboard player and joking that his Auto-Tune had been surgically inserted. Sometimes it's just a little concealer, sometimes it's neon pink fake lashes, and if it's going to be noticeable, might as well go big. The creator of Auto-Tune has been quoted as comparing it to cosmetics, appropriately.
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It resembles nothing so much as a strip club customer who goes on a tirade about how much he dislikes surgically augmented bodies even though he would not for one second stand for a woman who decided to leave her body hair in its authentic state.
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When it comes to popular music, an art form whose entire existence depends on the unanticipated applications of new technologies, drawing the line at a particular effect is a mental feat. He used it to screw it up and make it do what the human voice technically could not. T-Pain never used the device to make his voice sound unrealistically perfect. T-Pain is at least partly responsible for both 808s and Heartbreak and The Blueprint 3, one of which used a lot of Auto-Tune and one of which called for its death. In addition to being at the edge of a trend in subject matter, T-Pain's use of Auto-Tune marked/caused a huge increase in the program's use and an accompanying backlash against it, uniting Jay Z and Death Cab for Cutie in their public stands against vocal processing. The songs that history will record as the last butt rock stripper anthems came forth shortly thereafter in a death rattle of trying-to: Buckcherry's "Crazy Bitch" (2005), Kid Rock's "So Hott" (2007), and Nickelback's "Shakin' Hands" (2008). The strip club anthems of the 1980s- "Cherry Pie", "Pour Some Sugar on Me", "Girls, Girls, Girls"-and the nu-metal of the '90s were fading memories. … (West's 808's and Heartbreak) was actually good, but I had a lot to do with that album.After 2005, rock radio continued to dwindle into a niche market. So sometimes it gets a little bit wobbly and things like that. You can't catch your mistakes before they happen. … You don't know how it's going to come out. (Kanye) sings without it first and then he puts it on after he's done with the vocals. He makes great music with it, but the way that I use it and the way that I've shown Chris (Brown) and Jamie (Foxx) to use it, he doesn't use it that way.
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… Kanye uses it, but he doesn't use it correctly. And there are, don't get me wrong, a lot of guys that use Auto-Tune that cannot sing. When people hear Auto-Tune, they know that it's used so much for a crutch, you know what I'm saying? And I use it to turn my voice into an instrument. One person who might not be so enamored of T-Pain, however, is Kanye West, whom he calls out for being a bad student of Auto-Tune, Pain's signature vocal-perfecting instrument that gives singing a robotic quality. This is the opportunity.' And, after that, we started hanging out and literally fell in love. So you know, I had been around her for a while, so I went up to her to talk to her and was like, 'Hey, so my brother sucks, so let's do this, me and you. My brother, one of his girlfriends was one of the strippers. Well, get this: that song was based on his real-life romance with an exotic dancer. It's always fun when art imitates life, especially when the life moment in question involves falling in love with a stripper.īack in 2005, we were all just minding our business when rapper/singer T-Pain entered our consciousness - and our hearts - with the Auto-Tune heavy, era-defining single I'm 'n Luv (Wit a Stripper).