Comments on: I’m Amazing – Feross VS. Kanye West

By: Heath Panciera

Heath Panciera — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:30:42 +0000

Miley Cyrus is such a talented singer. I have all of her songs.

By: Feross Aboukhadijeh

Feross Aboukhadijeh — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:27:33 +0000

Hey anonymuz,

You’re wrong — Cher used Auto-Tune, not a Vocoder. Check out what Wikipedia has to say. I believe that Cher’s engineers went to great lengths to hide their use of Autotune because they wanted to keep it a secret, which is probably what is contributing to the confusion out there.

By: anonymuz

anonymuz — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:21:37 +0000

Nobody is mentioning Cher because her engineers didn’t autotune her voice – they used something called a vocoder (voice encoder), which merges two signals (for example, a synthesizer and a voice).

By: Moosh

Moosh — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:29:36 +0000

Roger Troutman is famous for using a Talk Box. How come no one has mentioned the Cher track “do you believe in love” – that was the big first pop use of auto tune.

Few things – though I don’t disagree with you, kanye does get credit for actually writing the song. Songwriting isn’t such an easy thing to do and does require talent.

Next, I personally can’t sing at all, not even as a “passable” singer, however all these vocal technologies – auto tune, vocoding, and talk box make it possible for me to express myself lyrically in my tracks. What counts is the whole thing, the music, beats, groove, and message. If it enables more people to become “singers” then that’s great. Why should we idolize the front wo/man of a band when there’s a lot of other artistic contribution… What would U2 be w/o The Edge?

By: Tootie

Tootie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:35:41 +0000

Actually even b-4 the band you name in 99 there was a group called Zapp feat Roger Troutman that used auto tune and I think that was the 80′s you need to google his music and you will see he made it famous first. Tpain was the next to make it really popular.

By: Russell

Russell — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:09:47 +0000

wow…you’ve come a long way since our days at geocities…this website makes me laugh and laugh. Great job man, you are getting pretty advanced…but not up to me yet….lol

By: Daniel Posch

Daniel Posch — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:03:56 +0000

I'm submitting it to Digg right now. This week seems to be Kanye week on Digg, complete with lots of little mashups like this--a bunch of internet clowns forming a pigpile of agreement over what a douchebag he is. Your post, however, is pure unadulterated ownage. Respect.

By: The Sports Informant

The Sports Informant — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:51:38 +0000

Feross, it’s amazing how lame the industry’s become. Bring back real talent! Thanks for shining some light on a dark, dark time in hip-hop. We’re being fed fake superstars, we might as well be listening to Miley Cyrus.

-The Sports Informant

By: Your Brotha!

Your Brotha! — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:41:10 +0000

Pretty good, not gonna lie! However, you are definitely lacking the look! I wouldn’t buy your album! lol Jk

Much Love

Homie Jeede

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:07:31 +0000

HAHAHA why are you still a CS major!? Go visit the music department.