I always see Pitchfork bloggers writing this s*** with no further explanation. They s*** on the GOAT Nav for his use of autotune but big up Travis

Can’t this bland description apply to Future, Lil Tjay, A Boogie and other heavy autotune artists

Never heard anyone say this

they have always wanted him to be compared to Kanye. i genuinely don't see any other reason why ppl would say that

Nav sounds like a minion on autotune while Travis has some dark sounding s*** here and there. Agreed they don't really use autotune as an instrument unless you consider it for hums, adlibs and some screams

did u just call Future bland

YEAH! ALRIGHT!

Who tf said this? 😭😭 only thing I’ve heard was carti using his voice as an instrument

autotune is an audio effect.

when they mention “using it as an instrument” they’re implying that Travis Scott mastered using autotune like how you’d get virtuous with a guitar, sax, piano, etc or because he explores different new ways to use it on his records.

don’t read too much into it

Thread was inspired by this blog and I hear this thrown around a lot

No Future is my favorite rapper but you don’t hear people saying ‘Futures autotune is an instrument’ in the same artsy way as Travis

Nigga said Lil Tjay

A Boogie

I’ll really hurt u

Is Travis really the peak autotune user to Pitchfork critics? He’s been using the same autotune effects for awhile

You don’t want no smoke Mister

it just means u use ur full vocal range to make full use of the effect instead of singing monotone like some artists do

sounds like ur describing Future’s Honest era

Future’s got a notably greater command of his instrument two years on from Pluto, and to that end, much of the Auto-Tune and reverb that occasionally gave the first album’s vocals the distance of a radio transmission have been scrubbed. The training wheels are off. Fight songs like “My Momma” and “Covered N Money” draw their intensity from the quirky sound of a voice giving out screaming the titular choruses, a trick perfected on the searing pre-album street single “SH!T”. Flubbed notes are left in for character rather than squeegeed out by computers, but there’s less of those than ever because writing for and performing alongside other singers has worked wonders for Future’s range. The rousing upper register chorus for “Blood, Sweat, Tears” and the slick falsetto hook on “Honest” wouldn’t have worked with his voice before. “Never Satisfied” refuses to let Drake do the heavy lifting as Future confidently soars past the Toronto MC’s introspective vocalizing in between choruses. And where guests were once employed to secure a measure of credibility, now they hover in Future’s orbit: Drake gets faded out mid-chorus on the two-minute “Never Satisfied”, and even when Kanye parks the Kardashian roadshow in back of “I Won”, he sticks to the script.

Exquisite write up ✍️

I feel like this applies to most autotune artists. It just comes off as an Empty compliment when they don’t specify how it’s used. I don’t see how Travis differs using his autotune is more creative than somebody like Durk

U and the 4 people who liked this cant read

He called the description bland

nah u def right