Hasn't AutoTune already been buried?

Over the weekend, Jay-Z rocked the web with his new track "D.O.A. (Death of AutoTune)."

I'm all for giving the robot the heave-ho, but haven't we already heard this before?

Peep R-Swift's "R.I.P. AutoTune" on his MySpace page.

I wonder if cats will listen now that Jay's talking?

I've also got to pass along a couple of dope lines my man Zee (co-owner of DaSouth.com) Tweeted this weekend.

Jay-Z's "D.O.A." track? Overrated. Great methaphors, but c'mon... he only rappin' about the death of a plugin, people.

If I was a so-called "great emcee" like Jay-Z, would that be the greatest msg I had to give? Death of a plugin???

How about death, burial and resurrection? Get on that and then you'll have my listening ear... sigh...

A discussion about Auto-Tune

Relevant Magazine's guest blogger Seth "Tower" Hurd (a radio DJ heard on Chicago's 89.7 Shine FM and 101.7 FUSE in Saginaw, Michigan) has written several entries I've enjoyed. His latest explores the Auto-Tune trend with comments from industry insiders about their love/hate relationship with the "robot voice fixer thing."

Check it out here.

For more in-depth reading on the subject, check out this piece from The New Yorker Magazine I caught a few months ago.