, and his over-the-top use of Auto-tune
, the pitch-correcting software that makes everyone sound like a computer virus and is ruining popular music pretty much single-handedly.I've been hoping for the Death Of Auto-tune
(thanks, Jay-Z
, for joining in the battle!) for about 8 years now, but instead its use is becoming more and more rampant; however, more than ever, it seems like the last throes in a war, the final insurgency, where the enemy are giving it all they've got because they know if they don't win this round, it's over anyway.Anyhow, Lil' Wayne is definitely abusing the fucking thing. And the video is also cheap as fuck - it looks like the ''special effects'' coordinator (i.e. the guy who took the green from around where Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj are and made it into a boxing ring in an arena) was a 5-year old computer illiterate from the 1950s who had a budget of $5.25 and spent it on a burger and fries instead of electronics.
Hopefully, this spells the end of Auto-tune. But I doubt it, if only because I'm sure Britney Spears still has 2 or 3 comebacks left in her...
If you have trouble seeing it, the full YouTube page is here. Oh, and the song is called ''Knockout'', hence the boxing theme; if he writes a song called ''My Parents Were In A Rocky
Relationship'' later in his life, maybe he can use out-takes from this for the video and save time, cash and effort.
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