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    Page 91: The Answer to the Case of the Undead Auto-Tune

    Negropedia Brown: The Case of the Undead Auto-Tune

    WTAN: Will the Blogosphere Let Negroes Make Love?

    Slate Article Causes Copying Texas Alt-Weekly to Quit in a Huff

    19th Century Pop Music Sounds Remarkably Like Joanna Newsome
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/15/09

    In reply to Page 91: The Answer to the Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
    I like the concept of what you're doing here T.A.N. and I want to see more of it. I had more to say about persona vs. writer, but I can't phrase it in a way that doesn't make me sound like a total ass. So, yeah. See you here next weekend.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    06/14/09

    In reply to Page 91: The Answer to the Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
    The problem with Jay-Z's song is that it's boring, it would have been funnier if he used really bad auto tune in it to prove a point.
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    06/14/09

    @jasonelias: There's a reason I've hearted you! Using autotune (I can't distinguish between good and bad, frankly) would have recognized the current (and, lamentably, future) state of popular music, while highlighting its deficiencies.


    jasonelias for music mogul!

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    06/14/09

    @souldecirce: Heh heh, thank you! You know hearing Jay-Z with autotune would have been hilarious. I think all autotune is bad really. I can always hear it. Oddly enough it's in a lot of country music too.
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    Image of T.A.N. T.A.N.
    06/14/09

    @jasonelias: (oops, wrong place originally)


    ha. yeah, kind of like takeover with Nas where he used effects to make it funny and make his point. i third you on this suggestion.

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    06/14/09

    @T.A.N.: Thanks. Yep, "Takeover" is a good song, great Doors sample and funny lyrics. "DOA's" jokes don't land and who wants to hear "Na na na" again.
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    06/14/09

    In reply to Page 91: The Answer to the Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
    Loving the old stuff--even superduper old stuff like Edison Cylinders and "White Christmas"--does not itself make one a curmudgeon. (It doesn't because that shit is golden and awesome, for serious.) Hell, liking the old stuff more than the new stuff doesn't necessarily make one a curmudgeon, either.


    If Rosen was a real pop music curmudgeon, he wouldn't merely say that Raising Hell was the best hip-hop album ever--he'd say its besting was an impossbility, that everything after it (or after some point far into the past) wasn't even really hip-hop, and that this new and awful mutant interloper music with the same name wasn't even worth the slightest thought. And however goofy his analysis of "DOA" might be I don't think that's what happening here.

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    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    06/14/09

    In reply to Page 91: The Answer to the Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
    I'm just a lowly katekate, but I thought this was terrific.
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    06/14/09

    In reply to Page 91: The Answer to the Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
    Please do not do this again next week.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    06/14/09

    @t0ph: @MoeGolden: @JeanneNarea: Seriously, all of you, T.A.N. or GTFO. Feel free to crit the context, not the writer, otherwise, I'm dropping the hammer.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/14/09

    @t0ph: I'll co-sign onto this. It was a great attempt, and well-written (I like your work in general) but some things just don't translate to the Interwebs, y'know?.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    06/14/09

    In reply to Negropedia Brown: The Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
    Holy shit, this is great.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    06/14/09

    In reply to Negropedia Brown: The Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
    Yes! Clear English. Understood most of it!


    (Did you go around with a little notepad as a kid too?)

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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/13/09

    In reply to Negropedia Brown: The Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
    I used to love Encyclopedia Brown books when I was little and I never solved those mysteries either.


    I'll guess though - the critic basically figures that any hip-hop artist who's achieved some success isn't relevant any more?


    I enjoyed the image of Ja Rule as pint-sized with the voice of Cookie Monster though. Now I'll always hear Cookie Monster if I have to hear his voice ever again.


    By the way, I figured that Jay-Z was already into his 40s. Whoops. I'm off to consult Wikipedia Brown to find out how old he actually is. See, this is what happens when you marry a woman who's way younger than you - she makes you look old, dude.

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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    06/13/09

    In reply to WTAN: Will the Blogosphere Let Negroes Make Love?
    Aren't you going to tell us about the army nurse?
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/13/09

    @son of spam: She was in love with a midget. But Hollywood wouldn't let them have sex, so they just decided to stay home and smoke herb and watch porn on the Internet.


    I think I have to go back and read the post more carefully.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/13/09

    In reply to WTAN: Will the Blogosphere Let Negroes Make Love?
    The beautiful Dorothy D. goes on and on.
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    Image of T.A.N. T.A.N.
    06/13/09

    @BookishLookish: Dorothy and Lykke would make beautiful babies together, I suspect.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/13/09

    @T.A.N.: There's got to be room for some T.A.N. in that exotic sandwich, no?
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    06/13/09

    @BookishLookish: Isn't that Harry Belafonte as well? Double swoon.
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    Image of nightlawyer nightlawyer
    06/13/09

    @Baroness: Yes...it is Harry. Super swoon.
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    06/13/09

    @nightlawyer: Dare I say, Harry is the more beautiful of the two in this particular picture? Dorothy seems distracted, not into it. Who knows what their dynamic was that day. He seems beautifully and sensually into it, she seems.. elsewhere. Not particularly happy.
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    06/13/09

    @Baroness: But, late idea, maybe that's the idea of "Carmen Jones"- in character, even as a handsome soldier is kissing her, she's already looking elsewhere like a femme fatale does.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    06/13/09

    In reply to WTAN: Will the Blogosphere Let Negroes Make Love?
    She forgot about industry rule number four thousand and eighty....
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    06/13/09

    @Foster Kamer: And yes, becfore you accuse me of not knowing my Tribe, I know it's a different song.
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