{"id":27443,"date":"2021-06-22T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=27443"},"modified":"2021-06-22T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:15:42","slug":"t-pain-auto-tune-depression","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/t-pain-auto-tune-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Pain Reveals All The Criticism For His Use Of Auto-Tune Led Him Into Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The use of auto-tune’s innovative capabilities has always been alive and well in pop music<\/a> but the digital processor’s revolutionary surge in hip-hop arenas can easily be traced to none of other than T-Pain. After the debut of his hit single “I’m Sprung” climbed the charts in 2005, the voice-alteration technology would be rightfully dubbed “The T Pain Effect” and birthed a generation of rappers who incorporated the voice effects into their catalog. T-Pain is now revealing how steering the hip hop zeitgeist of the early aughts<\/a> led him into a spiraling four-year depression.<\/p>\n

In a clip from the upcoming Netflix series This Is Pop,<\/em>\u00a0published by\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>, the 35-year-old spoke about how criticism from veterans like Usher left him demoralized as the industry sought a scapegoat for the popularized use of auto-tune. “Usher was my friend. I really respect Usher,” he recalled in the exclusive clip. “And he was like, ‘Man. I’m gonna tell you something, man. You kinda (expletive) up music.'” In the moment,\u00a0The Masked Singer<\/em> season 1 winner presumed Usher, someone who he looked up to, was joking.\u00a0 He continued, “I didn’t understand. I thought he was joking at first, but then he was like, ‘Yeah man you really f*cked up music for real singers.'” Jay Z, although he has given credit to artistry of T-Pain and Kanye West, has also criticized the musical trend as a technological crutch that demeaned the craftsmanship of the industry. In 2009, he composed his barbs at the modulation into the first single off his eleventh album, The Blueprint 3<\/em>, titled “D.O.A (Death of Autotune).”<\/p>\n

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I still love and respect @Usher<\/a> telling that story was in no way meant to disrespect that man. Ppl talk shit about me 24\/7 but when it comes from someone you truly respect it hits very different. I never said f*ck Ursh it was a drop in the ocean of shit I was already goin through<\/p>\n

— T-Pain (@TPAIN) June 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n