Posts Tagged ‘Death of Autotune’

MTV’s VMA Nominations Getting Better, But Still Terrible as a Whole

In fame, Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, TV on 4 August 2009 tagged 2009 Video Music Awards, A.R. Rahman, Asher Roth, Bjork, Britney Spears, Cobra Starship, D.O.A., Death of Autotune, Dr. Dre, Drake, eminem, Everlong, Flo Rida, Foo Fighters, Francis Lawrence, Freedom '90, George Michael, Good Girls Go Bad, Green Day, Heads Will Roll, Human Behavior, Jai Ho, Jake Nava, Jay-Z, Jonas Akerlund, Kai Regan, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Kings of Leon, Lady GaGa, Major Lazer, Marc Webb, Miss Independent, Mr. Hudson, MTV, Ne-Yo, Nominations, Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang, Paranoid, Passion Pit, Pussycat Dolls, rihanna, T.I., U2, Use Somebody, VMA, VMA Nominations, Where The Streets Have No Name, Yeah Yeah Yeahs with 2 comments

This year’s Video Music Award nominations actually boast some great pop videos: Gnarls Barkley’s Whose Gonna Save My Soul, Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Heads Will Roll, and essentially the entire Breakthrough Video cateogry, unfortunately, many of these videos were nominated in the wrong categories. Though Eminem’s We Made You and Britney Spears’ [...]

Slate.com Thinks Jay-Z’s ‘Death of Autotune’ is His Beef With All Things Digital

In Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, R&B on 10 June 2009 tagged autotune, Blueprint 3, Death of Autotune, Hot 97, iTunes, Jay-Z, Jody Rosen, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, ringtone, Slate, T-Pain with no comments

Jay-Z told Hot 97 that he was not targeting T-Pain, Kanye West, or Lil Wayne for their use of autotune in his track Death of Autone, which to Jody Rosen apparently means that the track is Jay’s public statement against technology in general: In lieu of picking a fight with human beings, Jay-Z disses technology [...]