In a new Netflix series, T-Pain revealed he became depressed after Usher told him that he “f**cked up music” by using autotune.
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In a clip from the streaming platform’s latest series This Is Pop, T-Pain explained how he became depressed after Usher told him about his feelings regarding auto-tune. “Usher was my friend. I really respect Usher. And he said, ‘I’m gonna tell you something, man. You kinda f‑‑‑ed up music,'” the singer recalled.
He continued to say, “And then he was like, ‘Yeah man you really f‑‑‑ed up music for real singers,'” he recalls. “I was like, ‘What did I do? I came out and I used Auto-Tune.’ He was like, ‘Yeah, you f‑‑‑ed it up.’ I’m like, ‘But I used it, I didn’t tell everybody else to start using it. That is the very moment, and I don’t even think I realized this for a long time, but that’s the very moment that started a four-year depression for me.”
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The eight-part Netflix series discusses the most influential moments in pop music and features other artists such as Chuck D, Backstreet Boys, Boy II Men, and several others.
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly