Taylor Swift rapping with T-Pain

You would think if someone is gonna come out with a song called Thug Story they wouldn't sound like a 5 year old. LOL

 

Where's Kam when you need him!

 

Hahaha. That's all I think about when I hear these rappers who use that thing. You don't even need to know how to rap nowadays. Just use that box.

 

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to moestavern19 again."

 

Bah, sue me for what I said earlier - I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I knew it was a joke, more than likely, but I have seen things a lot more ridiculous so I didn't know.

 

I'd be willing to bet it was made by the SNL crew.. The lady that played her "mom" on the stairs is one of the writers on the show and the sound was very similar to the Natalie Portman rap she did on SNL..

It maybe my SNL bias talking, but I though it was funny..

 

No, that was Taylor's mom in the video last night.

 

That last part with the auto-tune with T-Pain was great.

 

Here's the video of the entire opening of the CMT Music awards, which includes the rap video.

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I think the skits, taken individually, are pretty funny.

Taylor Swift, for all you older BBS members, is a 19-year-old country singer popularized by her songs "Teardrops on my Guitar" and "Love Story" (which the title of Thug Story is a parody of). She also dated one of the Jonas Bros and is a close friend of Miley Cyrus. She've always tried to be funny, and one of her most recent skits was SNL's "Save Broadway" with Neil Patrick Harris. T-pain, on the other hand, is a hip-hop producer/collaborator with auto-tune sounds. He and Akon are the two most prominent users of that technique in their songs. T-pain had a collaboration with the Lonely Island (Andy Samburg's group) called "I'm on a boat" that was pretty popular.

The CMA skit may have some SNL involvement, but I'm not sure.

 

Daughter of former Rocket Stromile Swift.

 

I didn't want to start a new thread, but speaking of T-Pain, I actually like this song with Maino they came out with a few months ago:

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not bad actually. a new song to put in the music list.

tpain still makes the song, but even as much as i dislike maino ... he's serviceable.

 

Country singer to rapper = EPIC FAIL.

 

Eh, it was wildly successful judging by the responses across the net. The thing is, it's basically an inside joke (and was a skit, as such) in which you have to know and follow Taylor Swift to really appreciate. That's why it was done by and for the CMT Awards. If you don't follow Taylor Swift and/or country music, which obviously most people on this board don't, of course it's not going to be funny. It wasn't supposed to be.

 

I don't think Akon uses autotune. I think his natural singing voice just sounds weird like that.

 

I'm fairly certain he doesn't as well. He's from Africa, it wouldn't be that out of the ordinary to have an auto-tune/vocoder ish voice.

 

After research (with wikipedia), I retract my previous statement about Akon thanks for pointing that out. He only uses it in one or two songs, it seems like.

 

Here's the full parody version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4YdPpr8EB0