We, The Auto-Tuned

 By: Chris Spangenberg, Grade 10

Auto-tune: The number one killer of talented young women and men globally. The one thing that rappers and pop stars alike have a dying fetish for; the “finishing touches” to every good pop song these days. Or is it?  Auto tune, for those who don't know, is a audio tool used to correct mistakes when singing, or in these days, hide the fact that you can't sing.It was developed by Antares Audio Technologies, to disguise off-key inaccuracies and mistakes. I beg to differ. Auto-tune was a tool created by Satan, so that false icons can smear their guano all over the music industry, and enslave the minds of millions all over the world. A tool used by talentless, distasteful men and women to create mindless, distasteful music.

I don't hate it at all really. In the right hands, it is a useful tool in the virtual repertoire of singers and rappers, when they've ACTUALLY made a mistake. And not every auto-tuned song can be THAT bad.

But in the twisting and endless corridors of the music industry, I feel we've all taken a wrong turn somewhere. By inventing the damn thing. Many, many, many singers and rappers abuse it, and I have no idea why. You were born with an unique, beautiful voice. Why you would want to sound like a zombified android with a cold, strikes me dead. Music used to be good. Now most of the pop scene has turned into a reenact of “Dawn of the dead”: Mindless, soulless people, with drool coming out of their mouths, with the same stupid ideas... But hey, who am I to talk about music? I'm just another member of the enslaved after all.