does jay-z's new song "death of auto-tune" mark the actual death of auto-tune?

I just heard this on the radio.. I had no idea it was Jay-Z, but I agreed with everything he said.

trends die because they're replaced by newer trends, not because of backlash

that said, this coulda been dope if the beat, vocals and/or lyrics reflected the aggression of the concept like, at all

I had no idea it was Jay-Z

really?

Jayz probably not the ideal person to be making pronouncements on what's hot and what's not

this coulda been dope if the beat, vocals and/or lyrics reflected the aggression of the concept like, at all

Couldn't say it better myself.

Cranky old man complains about these kids today, film at 11...

noodle otm... but autotune is kind of lame now i agree... the offical jump the shark moment for autotune is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4vxotdYliA

I LOVE the beat for Jay's song tho... does anyone know what the sample is?

i didn't hear it as "these kids today" as much as i heard "commercialization is wack" .. sorry i forgot this is ilm and no one will ever agree that the current trends are wrong.

for reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNF7ZagM0A

T-Pain's "Karaoke" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this song

although both have the same problem of being too soft and ultimately going "kanye's my buddy, though, he can keep doing it" and not really taking aim at even the much easier targets

for reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMB7VO-aOuU

i forgot this is ilm and no one will ever agree that the current trends are wrong

Yeah ILM is wall to wall pie-eyed poptimists eh? You're probly right tho, multi-millionaire businessman Jay-Z is probably decrying commercialism here.

this IS sinatra at the opera!

it's nice for kanye that he gets to be the autotune posterboy and produce the autotune backlash record

janko nilovic - "in the space" is the sample, brainwasher. via stereogum, of all places

thanks. btw I thought No I.D. produced this, not Kanye...

yeah i picked up on the irony that jay-z is the ceo of a corporation.. but that also means he's highly influential.

and yes i picked up on the irony that kanye, whose last album was entirely leaning on auto-tune as a crutch, helped produce blueprint 3..

All this thread has done so far is convince me to never hear this song.

thanks. btw I thought No I.D. produced this, not Kanye...

― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Monday, June 8, 2009 4:29 PM (1 minute ago)

co-produced

he had me until he rhymed "melody" with "felony"

xxpost

The song's pretty good btw.

according to fakeshoredrive the beat is entirely no i.d.'s

haven't heard anything else from blueprint 3 yet, but regarding kanye..

he seems like the type of dude who's big-headed enough to think his last album is the end-all of autotune.. as if he took it to a level of artistic greatness that will remain unmatched, and that any future usage of this in hiphop production will only be used to appease pop audiences, and not hiphop listeners. .. i wouldn't be surprised if he's finished with it altogether.

yeah...most of his last dozen or so guest appearances have been w/o autotune, he's probably gonna leave it alone on the next album he does

i dont really think this beat is that good

I'm trying to figure out if that's a 60s soprano sax or Hot Butter Follies of 1929.

It's like he's saying:
You can make it funky
Because I am going to make this one clunky
You can take the top 40
Because Iam going to make a song that has no melody

exhibit 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBRPSlb-VZY

exhibit 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI

the four examples in this thread are like the four horsemen of the autotune apocalypse

"buy u a drank" is still pretty awesome tho

soft rock sax/corny guitar licks/"nah nah nah hey hey goodbye" << yo stomach

oh some dude already made that point

I kinda like brokencyde tho

it's hard to make music so irritating and I respect that

does jay-z's new song "death of auto-tune" mark the actual death of auto-tune? jay's career

I kinda like brokencyde tho

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/b/b5/Exploding-head.gif

don't really care about the whole auto-tune debate but damn No ID killed the beat on this. real nice : )

i live with two people who play whiney autotune bullshit all day long. shakeshead.gif.

wish he'd gone with a "meaningless songs in very high voices"-style parody instead of his usual weathered swagger over panoramic beat thing.

old man yells at cloud .jpg

this would've been something noteworthy if he did it a year ago but autotune's already cannibalized itself like 5 times over now and that's not even to mention that the hottest song in the country is drake's autotune r&b thing

I think everyone here is underestimating the weight of this song. Check any hip-hop news site and it's practically the only thing anyone has been talking about since Friday night- with a overwhelmingly positive response (honestly, people have been complaining about autotune for so long, it's a surprise that it took this long for someone to actually build a song around the theme). At this rate, DOA could end up being the hip hop equivalent of Smells Like Teen Spirit, in the sense that it so totally destroys the trend of the moment that no one will ever be able to use autotune ever again. Look for hip hop to get darker and less pop-oriented (on the whole) by the end of the year.

practically assault with a deadly weapon

yeah whatever jigga

this beat will be freestyled over a lot

Melody always wins. This won't shut down "Whatever You Like."

At this rate, DOA could end up being the hip hop equivalent of Smells Like Teen Spirit, in the sense that it so totally destroys the trend of the moment that no one will ever be able to use autotune ever again.

dude...you're overthinking some shit but i dont see how a rapper who most people agree has been off his game for a good half decade can come back with a wack "statement track" and expect to change the course of the genre. there's still plenty of paper to be made using autotune so it's not going anywhere

dude, auto-tune exhibit #2 on this thread >>>> jay-z's boring frumpy "death of autotune"

I think everyone here is underestimating the weight of this song. Check any hip-hop news site and it's practically the only thing anyone has been talking about since Friday night- with a overwhelmingly positive response (honestly, people have been complaining about autotune for so long, it's a surprise that it took this long for someone to actually build a song around the theme). At this rate, DOA could end up being the hip hop equivalent of Smells Like Teen Spirit, in the sense that it so totally destroys the trend of the moment that no one will ever be able to use autotune ever again. Look for hip hop to get darker and less pop-oriented (on the whole) by the end of the year.

― makeitpop, Monday, June 8, 2009 5:45 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is the worst post on ilm this year - i hope we're being trolled

Yeah maybe this will be like when that guy did that "Disco Sucks" protest and now Disco's been totally destroyed and no one has ever used Disco ever again.

YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP

cheers bruv, just clownin'

― I'M IN MIAMI, TRICK-OR-TREAT (Beatrix Kiddo), Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:50 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, i think i'd like to overreact and get angry!

― best of the madmen slog (some dude), Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:18 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mad prescient

Not to take anything away from the ship's staggering assault upthread or the discussion ongoing here but I started a thread for this album

The Inevitable New Jay-Z Album: Blueprint 3

The Timbaland/Drake/Jay song sounds pretty awesome.

i don't think rush limbaugh is on jay's balls afaik

"it ain't all bad...some of it please me, but the only niggas that's cool is kanye and lil' weezy" classic.

classic in what way?

classic because the use of "kanye" and "please me" in the same sentence proves the influence of kl0pper

some of it please meh

hahaha the kl0pper quote

dude went left us too soon

well i guess not exactly 'classic,' but i thought it was a good one...maybe a melange of truth and good humor?

yo how much autotune is on this girl's voice on "Reminder"???

well i guess not exactly 'classic,' but i thought it was a good one...maybe a melange of truth and good humor?

― wolf_train, Monday, August 24, 2009 9:39 AM (Yesterday)

there are so many things rong technically and ideologically about that line i dont know where to start.

implying that the two most annoying rappers of 2009 are any good is a nice place to start, though

not that it matters but "Karaoke" was from 2008

there are so many things rong technically and ideologically about that line i dont know where to start.

Humor us, kevin!!

obv "ideologically" was the wrong word - basically my next post summed it up

I was more interested in "technically," to be honest.

i don't think rush limbaugh is on jay's balls afaik

― can i ox (J0rdan S.), Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:46 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

btw rush says "I did not know I was on anybody's balls" so

"I did not know I was on anybody's balls"?!

If he don't know, now he know.

also obama wants to harm our penises

First the death of autotune and now this?!

RIPenis

AIYYEEE venus vs mars....jesus hov wtf is wrong with you dude? are you like mentally sick or something???

more like Gayness vs. SARS IMO

hahaha m@tt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRgTdHsMrrg

lol yeah a little too late t-pain, you already made a bitch of yourself during jay's set at summer jam

seriously! t-pain lost

Live version, with a lot of John Mayer guitar (starts at 5:00):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bJkoFUr8bs

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/singles/2009/

19 Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling"
Interscope Mentions: 22
28 Drake, "Best I Ever Had"
Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown Mentions: 19
35 Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow"
Interscope Mentions: 17
42 Jay-Z, "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"
Roc Nation Mentions: 14

haha

:D at both your d/ns

I really like the new "Backing Up song" by autotune the news

Got the drum break from this stuck in my head, I'd never heard the Janko Nilovic song that was sampled before (or heard of Janko Nilovic), holy shit that's great.

it's sad, it was a plug-in

RIP auto-tune

When "turn my swag on" came out jay z and anyone who takes his position officially became irrelevant...autotune, high profile geusts, none of that shit matters. fuckin boring old douche

― P.O.L.O. (Posters Only Lol Once) (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Saturday, July 25, 2009 11:09 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

alright it tails off a bit at the end but "what you think i rap for? /to push a fuckin RAV4?"

― highway to sarahel (J0rdan S.), Friday, July 24, 2009 3:18 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

I think everyone here is underestimating the weight of this song. Check any hip-hop news site and it's practically the only thing anyone has been talking about since Friday night- with a overwhelmingly positive response (honestly, people have been complaining about autotune for so long, it's a surprise that it took this long for someone to actually build a song around the theme). At this rate, DOA could end up being the hip hop equivalent of Smells Like Teen Spirit, in the sense that it so totally destroys the trend of the moment that no one will ever be able to use autotune ever again. Look for hip hop to get darker and less pop-oriented (on the whole) by the end of the year.

― makeitpop, Monday, June 8, 2009 6:45 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

oh that makes me cringe

Sure, songs that are already hits might still remain hits, but from here on out, it's hard to imagine anyone getting in the recording booth and requesting the autotune effect without a conversation about this song taking place.

― makeitpop, Monday, June 8, 2009 8:23 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loool

I think it's a joke.

Bear in mind, this thread was started before the release of Attack Attack's "Stick Stickly," which was essentially the Smells Like Teen Spirit of auto-tune usage.

makeitplop

naw, makeitpop said laughable off-base shit as a matter of course

well fwiw i know i for one have not used autotune at any point in the years 2009-2015. make of that what you will.

yeah but did you discuss "DOA" before each time you didn't use autotune?