Thank you T-Pain on top of the covers is one of the best covers albums in 20 years few years ago T-Pain The Godfather of autotune found himself in a deep depression one of the best RB vocalists in history Usher and someone he considered a friend told him quite seriously you kind of up music
Arguably the Bedrock of the rapper producer and singer-songwriters hugely successful career had reduced him in stature in the eyes of his contemporaries the next several years he struggled with depression and anxiety for years removed from his last Studio effort the 16-bit infused one up the lasting impacts of
That conversation are felt heavily on on top of the covers on an unvarnished and full-throated collection of cover songs T-Pain flexes his vocal prowess completely without Auto-Tune and the results speak for themselves from a spellbinding version of Sam Cook’s A change is going to come to a raw and vocally uninhibited take of
Black Sabbath’s War Pigs T-Pain shows what any real fan already knew to be true his use of autotune was merely an instrument all along a streak of flair that enhanced T-Pain’s natural singing voice as countless auto-tune users that have come after him have learned it’s the singer that makes the auto-tune not the
Other way around it seems insulting that someone with this repertoire would have to further justify his contribution to the craft but amazingly that is what T-Pain does on on top of the covers each and every choice is so clearly personal and handled with a remarkable combination of reverence and reinvention
The Listener doesn’t need to know every backstory of his selections to realize each and every one is a deeply personal and deliberate Choice it covers album with this eclectic collection of material could have quickly gone wrong but Cook’s classic melts seamlessly into a euphoric belting of Journeys Don’t Stop Believing
And he levels up Sam Smith’s already incandescent Stay With Me it’s not often a cover stands up to the original and even rarer for one to surpass it this one does both T-Pain crosses genres here so seamlessly from Seoul to Arena Rock to classical to Country to Jazz the transition from an aggrieved
Country-fueled rendition of Chris stapleton’s Tennessee whiskey to Frank Sinatra standard that’s life is really the thrust of the album in a nutshell almost each and every wild turn works and the only common denominator is T-Pain not everything gels perfectly however probably the one misstep is sharing the
Night together originally by Dr Hook and the Medicine Show the song reeks of adult contemporary and even T-Pain’s personality and knack for Arrangements can’t save it it’s the only skip on an otherwise blemish free record on top of the covers comes more than three years after T-Pain initially conceived of the idea which
Was shortly after he won The Masked Singer Sans Auto-Tune and he credits his shift to an independent Artist as the reason it’s finally seeing the light of day it says something about the state of the industry that a collection of gems like this took so long to get released it’s a
Bit ironic that T-Pain has been so penalized in music circles and popular culture for Simply Having cracked the code with regard to 2000’s pop hits it’s not T-Pain’s fault his music was ubiquitous and a lot of artists The Good Bad and the Ugly took it upon themselves to copy his style
But it was just that a style it wasn’t the essence of what makes T-Pain special there’s way more to his appeal than that and on top of the covers is tangible proof Laughs
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