WHAT'S REALLY GOOD! Ne-Yo Blasts "Singers" Who Rely On .

Say what you need about Ne-Yo, but dude is ever a advocate of showcasing real talent. And always keeps it really about folks who simply don't get the sound or the leading power to make it. So, of course, he's giving his insight on why folks want to stopusing autotune as wings and promote their songs like their real artists.Read on for his take.

Ne-Yo spoke out recently saying auto tuned should be exploited for what isthere for-only to back the vocals of actual singers from time totime who don't wish to compeltely wear out their voices because ofconstant performing and recording.You don't need to fluff your throat out trying to do the same notea thousand times, so you talk it a few good times and you let theAuto-Tune catch whatever notes flow out," Ne-Yo explained. "It was notmeant to be wings. You were not alleged to strap it on your back andjump out the building, that is not what Auto-Tune was meant to be."The singer/songwriter, whose production team Stargate, scored oneof 2010's biggest hits with Wiz Khalifa's 'Black and Yellow,' continuedto call Auto-Tune's saturated use in hip-hop "wack," saying artists whoemploy the issue as a signature sound like "robots.""If you using it for what it's meant for, cool, fine and good,"Ne-Yo continued. "I look alike the best singers do. Not 'I can't singat all so let's just turn Auto-tune all the way up so that I sound likeWillie the robot,' that's wack! That's terrible, it takes all thecharacter outta your part and you become a robot. You see it on theradio and you go 'who is that?' and you take no idea because everybodysounds the same. If you're a singer, sing!" Couldn't have said it better myself. This "I want to get a starand tour and betray my record after I go speak into a mic and autotune it"ish is only becoming ridiculous. It's ever been a pet peeve of minewhen random folks trying to be an artist purposely dumb down the musicindustry for consumers by pushing 100% autotuned songs. And they'reactually trying to get a lead from it. It's literally someonespeaking into a mic and a machine turning it into a song. Nothingspecial about the voice. I'm not impressed and it's sad that this isbecoming the banner of music now. Glad somebody spoke out advocating raising our standards. And Iguess it's good to say he won't be trading his beliefs and talents justfor some airtime on the E! channel anytime soon, unlike otherproducers....Source