Well that’s great. They just ripped off the whole concept of the “Auto Tune The News” guys. I hope they at least got permission, because that’s blatant stealing of a comedy bit and routine.
If you have no idea what Auto Tune the News is, check this out:
Rap music has experienced a radical increase in popularity in the last five years. In the year 2000, rap became the second-best-selling genre in music, capturing 12.9 percent of the year’s $14.3 billion in total record sales (“Rap/Hip Hop” Sc 1). Though rap is no stranger to criticism, that criticism has increased in both quantity and vociferousness at about the same rate as the number of rap albums climbing the charts. And the growing evidence that, apparently, in order to achieve commercial success, each rap album must be more negative and offensive than the last does not help to address these criticisms. Unfortunately, the critics miss most of the rarely-seen other side of the genre: Hip-hop, rap music that is true the art form’s roots of black empowerment and social progress. But black empowerment and social progress don’t sell nearly as many records as the themes of mistreating women, abusing substances, and accumulating vast piles of wealth,
Well that’s great. They just ripped off the whole concept of the “Auto Tune The News” guys. I hope they at least got permission, because that’s blatant stealing of a comedy bit and routine.
If you have no idea what Auto Tune the News is, check this out:
It looks like they did permission:
nice grill on bama there
What is it with Kimmel saying Autotoon instead of Autotune?
Looks like Anatares Auto-Tune killed more than one industry. Kudos.
#4: Very funny. Toon and tune are pronounced the same.
“You can tune a piano but you can’t tuna fish”
– REO Speedwagon
only in america
Rap music has experienced a radical increase in popularity in the last five years. In the year 2000, rap became the second-best-selling genre in music, capturing 12.9 percent of the year’s $14.3 billion in total record sales (“Rap/Hip Hop” Sc 1). Though rap is no stranger to criticism, that criticism has increased in both quantity and vociferousness at about the same rate as the number of rap albums climbing the charts. And the growing evidence that, apparently, in order to achieve commercial success, each rap album must be more negative and offensive than the last does not help to address these criticisms. Unfortunately, the critics miss most of the rarely-seen other side of the genre: Hip-hop, rap music that is true the art form’s roots of black empowerment and social progress. But black empowerment and social progress don’t sell nearly as many records as the themes of mistreating women, abusing substances, and accumulating vast piles of wealth,