I damn near record all of it myself and you gotta go out and perform it. T-Pain insists that the mic is all about making music fun. That was just the start: "You know I had pretty good projections with the mic and a lot of adults buy it, like, pretending they're buying it for their kids Adults would call me saying they're tired of their kids slobbering all over their phones," T-Pain says of his decision to create a mic version of his auto-tune app. It has been downloaded more than 2 million times since its launch inaccording to T-Pain's team. T-Pain has always had a mind on technology and saw a perfect opportunity to get into the app game when other celebrities, such as Britney Spears, Pink and Lil' Wayne, started releasing their own apps. Well T-Pain survived the barbs and is currently riding another wave of auto-tune success with the release of an iPhone app, novelty microphone and a brand new album, rEVOLVErreleased in Mashable had a chance to speak with T-Pain about auto-tune, his app and microphone and the future of music in the age of technology. Auto-tune wasn't just decried by music purists and angry bloggers - celebrated artists such as Jay-Z came out against it, and even released a song on his album The Blueprint 3titled "D. T-Pain was one of the first of those artists to feel the success and also the inevitable backlash of auto-tune.Ĭritics said the technology was disingenuous and destroyed any need for vocal talent. The hope was that listeners wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The tacky technology was originally used by producers to help correct notes that an artist couldn't hit or hold. Every rapper seemed to have an auto-tuned hook or run. Some years ago, auto-tune was inescapable. Technology has permanently changed the way we listen to music.
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