Auto Tune Madness!

I really wish people would STOP with the digital madness. I'm pretty fed up with going to these myspace music pages, thinking I'm about to AT LEAST hear a human being (I don't even fall into the ignorance of hoping for a decent voice anymore), only to hear a robot!
GIVE AUTO TUNE A REST, PEOPLE.

I'll admit it--since we are, infact, human, we often fall into what can be called pitch imperfection, and our voices may need a little scoot in the right direction. Everyone loves and appreciates a little reverb here, some gloss and shine there. As a singer, I do it too. It makes you sound more professional and polished.

But when I can hear every crack and crinkle ironed out of your voice by way of digitalized liquid foundation?? It's a problem, ok? Just because our industry made T-Pain the ambassador of auto tune and the like, it doesn't take away from the facts.

WHAT GOOD IS DROWNING YOURSELF IN AUTO TUNE IF YOU FALL FLAT ON YOUR FACE WHEN IT COMES TO SINGING LIVE???

Sure it sounds cool and futuristic on CD and whatnot but why make yourself look stupid on stage? Why waste anyone's time by time asking them to go listen to your computerized nonsense when you know you couldn't hold your own live? Yet the people who do have talent all around (dance, song, writing, vocal ability, etc.) can't even get their pinky toe in the door, while singing octagons around these people I'm talking about.

And I'm not even saying you have to have a voice like Aretha, Whitney or Beyonce. However, if the talent isn't there--not even a little bit--then JUST STOP IT!!! STOP STOP STOP. Even Roger Troutman could hold his own without the voice box. Beauty queens (and kings) who think modeling automatically makes you elligable to be an R&B singer need to realize that we, the listeners see right through... We bump that when it happens to be on the radio, but we laugh at you during your concerts. Even people who aren't musicians knows what's real.

It's like make up...If you wear so much that you aren't recognizable (and are maybe even unattractive) when you take it off, what's it really worth? Where's the talent in that??

And now, it's really getting out of hand. Auto tune is every rapper's best friend. Lil' Wayne, Kanye West, The Diplomats, Diddy... They all thought it would be cool to give singing a go and all in the name of auto tune. I can't help but laugh, because it's just too funny. But in a sad way. Because even past the trend in rap music, auto tune really gives a false reality to individuals who lack any singing quality, and convinces them that they have it. That's not right, now is it?

Auto tune magic!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu6C70WROM
Where it all began..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HftQgBZ-Ou8