Nothing can kill a good melody like being out of tune. Experienced songwriters and performers know this, and that’s why Antares, a Santa Cruz-based company, created their popular Auto-Tune software.

Too much makeup makes a girl look like a masquerade; excess salt in soup makes it inedible, so also is the overuse of Auto-Tune by Nigerian pop singers which breeds mediocrity and laziness in the ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...