"I think they'll do it now."Įven as he gets ready to showcase his raw vocals more in the future, though, he said he's not interested in getting rid of the Auto-Tune for good. "I think they didn't want to do it because they didn't know I could do it," he told ABC News. That's an idea that his labels have never seemed enthusiastic about, he said. In the shorter term, he mentioned his interest in recording some of his greatest hits as unplugged, pared-down songs featuring his natural voice. Recording and performing more unplugged songs is something T-Pain said he's interested in for the future. "But I did it because I knew I could do it." "I didn't really plan to do this at all," T-Pain told ABC News.
The decision to do the concert, T-Pain said, was pretty impromptu. And T-Pain, he of the robotic Auto-Tune voice, has never sounded more human. The soft synth tones behind him turn the whole set into a music box. 1 single, “Buy U a Drank,” along with two singles from an upcoming album, T-Pain’s uncooked vocals leap out at the listener. “I've never done anything like this.”Īudiences have never heard T-Pain like this before. “This is weird as hell for me,” he jokes in the video. In the intimacy of the Tiny Desk set, T-Pain lets loose without a trace of Auto-Tune. In the video, he’s traded in the top hat and over-sized shades of his heyday for clear glasses and a black baseball cap, and a keyboard synth is his only company. And many of them were calling T-Pain a one-trick pony who hid behind Auto-Tune to make up for his own shortcomings as an artist.īut T-Pain, born Faheem Rasheed Najm, may have just silenced many of those critics with a stunning unplugged performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts series. The number of musicians and critics who condemned Auto-Tune as a crutch was hitting a critical mass. (Death of Auto-Tune)” and T-Pain’s hilarious appearance on “I’m on a Boat” by comedian Andy Samberg and his band The Lonely Island, T-Pain started to become the joke. Rogers Auto-Tuneīut sometime after Jay-Z’s 2009 hit “D.O.A. Neil Patrick Harris Tackles the Tonys New Mr. Diddy reportedly gave him royalties just for using Auto-Tune on a record, and an iPhone app called "I Am T-Pain" let users simulate Auto-Tune effects on their own. He was featured on tracks by superstars such as Kanye, R.
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