Let's get this out the way now: T-Pain pioneered the creative use of Auto-Tune in Hip Hop when he treated the pitch correction software as an expressive instrument rather than just a corrective tool.

Charli XCX was a major presence in my social media feeds this month even before she announced that Kamala Harris is Brat. I knew a few of Charli’s hits, but my musician friends have been raving about ...