Auto-Tune is a software program that distorts voices. One music lover thinks it is beautiful, another hates it. The biggest criticism of Auto-Tune is that it pulls all the emotion out of the music and makes all the voices look alike. The use of Auto-Tune broke through after a hit by ( ) and is especially popular among young R&B artists. Swamp Dogg is the exception: he is a soul veteran who
… has been making music for half a century. Together with two young indie (Ryan Olson from and from ) he threw himself into Auto-Tune. With Auto-Tune he wanted to express the loneliness, detachment and sadness he felt after the death of his wife. The result is an uncomfortable album that sounds like nothing else. 'I wanted to shock the shit out of them', says Swamp Dogg. He certainly succeeded in this. (PdK)more