I guess if you could boil down what I'm saying, it's that autotune is doing a lot of heavy lifting to the point where the rest of the music doesn't matter, and to me that's unfortunate because the autotune isn't so interesting to me that it makes up for it/
This is a valid opinion... It's all subjective isn't it, you aren't excited by the sounds, you're excited by different sounds, other people are bored by those sounds as you're bored by these sounds.
I would have to reread the book (or rather, read it at all, since i only got about two chapters in) to remember what he was claiming for it. No doubt the claims were overblown, although this is one of the appealing things about it, I think. Music journalism as overblown and feverish rather than po faced pitchfork style reviews of taylor swift albums.
The one angle I did think was really interesting was the transhumanism thing, the dancehall guys wearing these weird contact lenses and getting devil horn studs put in their heads, and the obvious analogy between feeding your voice through a synthesiser and 'becoming' a sort of human/tech hybrid... And perhaps this relating to other sorts of 'trans' stuff, what with Young Thug wearing dresses, etc.
Like I think you can basically dismiss his argument (whatever it was lmao) but still find interesting things about the music and about what he's saying about it
