Jay-Z isn't the only one over the auto-tune craze, you can now add Wyclef Jean and Nick Cannon to that list. The two recently released "Mr. Autotune," a song making fun of the ever-popular voice distortion tool. "I'm Mister Auto-tune/ If you sing off key/ For a small fee I can make you a celebrity," Jean sings with the assistance of a vocoder. "Then all you gotta' do is pay me/ And I will turn this thing into a karaoke party you'll be a superstar." Cannon, who adlibs on the track provides comic relief throwing in things like "Do I need singing lessons?" and "Don't stop autobot/keep my voice in the box."
The song, which is posted on Jean's blog, finds the singer/producer somewhat upset with artists who choose to use auto-tune. "If they ever ask you to sing live don't singe acapella/ You need the autobots to make the club drop it like it's hot."
Although initially introduced in the late 1970s by singer Roger Troutman , of the group Roger and Zap, auto-tune has been re-birthed most notably by singer T-Pain. The Tallahassee native who rarely records a song sans his vocoder credits himself for "starting the whole auto-tune epidemic."









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jeaneclipse08at 6-12-2009
Finally somebody has down something to deal with this new craze. I think that the auto tune thing is just ridiculous. It makes it easy for untalented people to come up with catchy tunes. Thank you wyclef, once again you have saved us...!!! Time for a new carnival album as well!!