Just For The Lulz

This video is a few weeks old, but I had other stuff to write about when I first saw it, like internet porn spam and killing people for stealing my soft drinks. In case anyone isn’t familiar with Autotune, it’s a software program that alters a singer’s voice so he or she has perfect pitch. Why would anyone try when the sound can be fixed in post production? This is how Ashlee Simpson, Heidi Montag, and countless others are able to put out records. However, there are limitations to the program. A singer has to be in the ball park or it will sound electronic. Autotune can get you from e-flat to e, but if you can’t then it’s going to sound like you’re a Transformer. The king of the Autotune is T-Pain, but he gets a pass because he’s never pretended that he was trained in anything other than Pimpology and he named his first album “Rappa Ternt Sanga” – Pimpology, not English. He was also the very first one to use Autotune as a gimmick. Funny goes a long way with me. At some point the guy who makes these videos got sick of all the crappy “artists” and their faux indignation when people question their talent, and decided to show how easy it is to sound like a sanga if Autotune is used. The first time I saw this I was at work and the guy in the office next to me had to come find out what I was laughing at so hysterically. There are a series of these videos, and I think this is the funniest one of the bunch. I can’t watch Katie Couric on the evening news anymore. It’s ironic that technology created these crappy singers, and now the same technology is lampooning them.