Technology In The Music Industry

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Technology is an ever-changing idea that doesn’t always stay still in any industry; this is very true for the music industry especially from the 1960’s and on. I will be discussing three different songs/musical events that deal heavily with technology and how it aids the artist/audience. My first example is from the artist T-Pain. I will use the song “Bartender” ft. Akon. This song was put out in 2007 and was near the start of T-Pains commercial music career. I chose T-Pain for an obvious reason: Autotune. Autotune is a musical device for tuning something automatically, especially a piece of computer software that enables the correction of an out-of-tune vocal performance. This piece of technology can both inhibit and support both the artist and audience. In T-Pain’s case I would argue that it inhibits his agency as an artist, because his name is synonymies with Autotune. He has somewhat put himself in a box with Autotune and if he wants to be successful and sell records he needs to alter his voice with this piece of technology. However, for audiences of T-Pain I believe Autotune supports their agency. Autotune lets audiences that are not very musically inclined to sound halfway decent and …show more content…
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