THINGS THEY SAY: JAMIE FOXX ON THE IMPORTANCE OF AUTO-TUNE

THINGS THEY SAY: JAMIE FOXX ON THE IMPORTANCE OF AUTO-TUNE

When it comes to Auto-Tune singer/actor Jamie Foxx has no complaints. His chart topping hit “Blame It” is heavily infused with the computer program as well as T-Pain’s voice.  While other people knock Auto-Tune, Jamie reveals that he was actually advised to use the program on his album if he didn’t want it to flop and gives his take on why “Blame It” is such a hit. He says,

“My music guy said, ‘If you don’t do it, your R&B album will be in the grocery store in that little bin with the nail clippers and the flip-flops’.”

The reason Jamie thinks “Blame It” became so popular:

He adds,

It’s a combination of things. Where we are in music today with the Auto-Tune, I think we captured the Auto-Tune the best in a long while — since T-Pain. And then having T-Pain on the song. Then the song says something that people have said throughout the years, ‘Man, I think I had one too many’. And then Ron Howard being in the video made it a pop song. The next thing you know it caught fire.

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