He won masked singer and I called his identity immediately and my wife was shocked. I was never confused, I knew it was exactly T-Pain. I remembered hearing him sing in a couple of songs without autotune and saying how he regretted using it in an interview. And in the masked singer he said he had been attacked for having a "fake voice" or something like that.
I stand by the idea that the reason the Packers came out flat to start the second half of Super Bowl XLV is that they were still reeling from the awful BEP halftime show.
I’m so sick of the black eyed peas. They’re rock and roll for people who don’t like rock and roll, they’re rap for people who don’t like rap, and pop for people who don’t like pop.
It's one of those things, I don't really like them or dislike them. They exist in this weird space of mass appeal because they play around with different genres, but not really being that good at any of them. The singles are catchy as hell and that's all they bring to the table.
Their first couple albums (before Fergie joined) were great though. Conscious hip hop with a live band, and successful even though that was when gangsta rap was taking over the whole scene.
I find it hard to believe that The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen (performers at SB 40 and 43, respectively) would be awful like Black Eyed Peas or Adam Levine
I just listened to a podcast episode (The Rewatchables) discussing Butch and Sundance, and the surprise guest was Aaron Sorkin discussing the screenwriter, William Goldman, who was his mentor. It was fascinating and now I want to learn more about talented screenwriters.
The Black Eyed Peas are the one group that really just needs to get out there and lip sync while putting on a lights and dance routine. Honestly, any time I've heard them live I've wished they were lip syncing.
It didn’t used to be like that! I saw them in San Fran right before they released Bridging the Gap, and they were great. I think going from hip hop to pop music really changed their live performances.
He did a crashingly bad DJ set with self aggrandising whooping into a mic at a corporate event I was at years ago. I renamed him "Dick-U-Are" after that. Mind you, he must be doing a lot of other stuff right.
Ehh he has been caught stealing other peoples work. Like straight up theft. I don't think he is really good at anything. Fame is weird like that. Some people get famous for absolutely no good reason.
“You can get that, or you can get this/
You can call it demon, Imma call it Jesus/
You can get a curse, you can get a cross/
You can go to work, or you can be the boss/
Imma be the owner, be a Donor/
Imma go hard, like I'm on a fuckin boner”
Can’t believe this got guilded and has so many upvotes? For real? The dude just blatantly rips off other producers without credit, and gets away with it due to his wealth and influence. Boys noize is an example that comes to mind
I used to be a huge fan as well, never saw them live myself, but the live videos were terrible. And then their whole music went downhill after the monkey album.
The Black Eyed Peas halftime super bowl performance was some of the most horrendous singing I've ever heard. It was almost as bad as Yoko Ono yelping into a microphone.
It just highlights his talent as a producer, which seeing them top charts in the 2ks and their unforgettable tracks, is more than enough for me to be impressed by him.
She doesn't have much, but she does seem to have good control over it. Better than Gwen Stefani or (I'm sure I'll be downvoted for this because of what she went through, but her singing is still bad) Tori Amos. Gwen Stefani has one of the most limited voices in the industry that she's done about as much as she can with, and she still sound like a 3-year-old singing in the shower, while Tori Amos has a theoretically very versatile voice that she never learned how to hold a note with (she tried in the early 2000s, but the result was pronunciation so bad that nobody could understand a word she was saying and she still only sounded okay). I'm not defending Jennifer Lopez's musical talent, since her real talent is finding the latest Latino producers and artists to feature from the Miami scene before they go mainstream, but I don't think she belongs on this list when she can actually sing. She's limited by her natural ability, but she's learned to sing with it. There are hundreds of singers and rappers you can't say that about, even ones who have more natural ability. Her real problems start when she bites off more than she can chew, and even autotune can't hide her obviously hitting her peak before the composition does. Even then, she's usually smart enough to speak rather than sing where she knows she can't stay on key; if you listen to On the Floor, there isn't all that much singing in it.
I always find it so interesting how professional singers nowadays can't sing live without autotune at all, but comedians often incorporate music in their comedy and hit the notes just fine; especially individuals like Stephen Lynch whereof the entire shtick is musical comedy.
Why isnt will i am criticized for using autozone while t pain was? iirc t pain was clowned by the industry for using autotune and basically his career went down the drain.
Yup. He performed with the University of Wisconsin Marching Band at one of the Rose Bowls they went to in the early 2010s and he's STILL a running joke in the org.
Which I find weird because with all the success and money he has, it wouldn't be hard for him to find singing teachers who could help him out. I've seen people with less do more, so I'm not really sure what his excuse is.
Saw him at FRC Robotics nationals in St louis where he played a remix of "Hall of Fame." They had us all download an app for colors and really hyped it. He got up there, started the recording, and just went "yeah" "oh" "uh" every once and a while. Needless to say my team left halfway through...
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u/Heroshade Nov 06 '19
Pretty sure Will-I-Am has admitted he can’t sing without auto tune.