T-Pain Singing Without Auto-Tune Is Actually Really Good
It's impossible to think of T-Pain without thinking of Auto-Tune—which is fair, considering he popularized the sound and indirectly helped launch a thousand terrible pop songs. But as it turns out, he's pretty damn good without it.
The singer was a guest on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series talking about how his signature sound led fans to assume he could only sing with heavy Auto-Tune.
"People felt like I was using it to sound good," T-Pain told NPR's All Things Considered. "But I was just using it to sound different."
Then T-Pain dropped the filter for stripped down renditions of Buy U a Drank, Up Down, and Drankin' Patna, telling his interviewer what everyone was thinking—"This is weird as hell for me."
