Auto-tune and Bob Marley game on the way as iPhone gets I-rie

Auto-tune has been all over Hip-Hop records in the last six months. Kanye West’s last album was slavered in it - rather pointlessly obscuring the flow of one of the few rappers left with anything to say. Lil Wayne also revealed himself a heavy user on the meta-irritating Lollipop. But the award for most grating use of the software goes to T-Pain in the dance craze-tastic Low. So smothered in Auto Tune’s effects was his novelty hit, that it’s unlikely there’d be any record left it you took it out.

Here he is in a titfer that's unlikely to get past the bouncers at Royal Ascot's Ladies Day:



However, clearly not satisfied with sullying Hip-Hop with his own shonky records today it has emerged he wants everyone to get in on the act. According to reports, T-Pain is working with engineers at Antares to develop a lite version of Auto-Tune for the iPhone. Up and down, the country we’ll be forced to listen to amateur rap producers playing their erm latest shit on their iPhones. It will be utterly inescapable. What horrors.

Still on a musical tip and frankly just as frightening is the news that a Bob Marley iPhone application could be on the way. It seems that along with a beer tie- in - that a Rastafarian would never drink, incidentally, alcohol being banned under the creed’s strictures – his money-grabbing family figure this will be fitting tribute to the man credited by many as Reggae’s greatest ever artist.

Apparently, it’s likely that the game will be a Guitar Hero-style arrangement. I can already picture hordes of white men doing an embarrassing skank as they play along. Alas we all know they’ll look about as irie as William Hague did when he rocked a baseball cap at Notting Hill Carnival.