You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast for
Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between
It could be a joke, it could be rumor-mongering, it could be nothing--but last night Taylor Swift posted this question on her Twitter: "If I said I was in the studio with T-Pain, would you believe me?"
I guess the answer is, "yes?"
Today's shrinking music market means making hay where you can, so trying to get the multiplier effect going with the biggest stars is the name of the game. Jay-Z rapped over Coldplay's Chris Martin at the very same Grammys that featured Tay and Mi-Cy, so T-Pain
