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A company pays an artist for a party? I don’t understand, what is awful?

• fatnoah 3y ago
  This is the first thing that came to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYI957ge4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYI957ge4c
  • dgellow 3y ago
    I get that it’s funny and a bit ridiculous, what I don’t get is the reaction “that’s what a company valued a $Xb does, it’s awful”. And really, it’s just a company organizing a party with a famous (I guess?) artist. What is seen as awful here?
    • stavros 3y ago
      That an HTTP client raised $225M at a $5.6B valuation.
    • fatnoah 3y ago
      Yeah, I think "awful" isn't the right word. Absurd, incongruous, or something else is probably more appropriate.
• darkhorse13 3y ago
  As a fellow API practitioner and API enthusiast, I love listening to T-Pain as I'm shredding it on the front-end.
  • dgellow 3y ago
    I’m likely out of touch, I have no idea who t-pain is
    • art-not 3y ago
      He’s an artist popular in 2005. Hrs most famous for being arguably the first big artist to use that super autotuney voice
      • astura 3y ago
        The first artist to use Auto Tune for a distinct effect (rather than just pitch correction) was Cher in her 1998 single Believe. Only a year after Auto Tune was released. T-Pain absolutely was the one who popularized it through. To the point that among the general public "Auto Tune" is associated more with "electronic voice effects" than it is with "pitch correction."
    • astura 3y ago
      Or just young - T-Pain was most relevant around 15 years ago. He popularized using Auto Tune for electronic voice effects.
      • htrp 3y ago
        Play to what was popular in the youth of your key client personas.
    • lancesells 3y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Pain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Pain R&B Artist. Recently had an album of covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nMjyT4epA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nMjyT4epA