In 2004 , UK 's `` The Daily Telegraph '' music critic Neil McCormick called Auto-Tune a `` particularly sinister invention that has been putting extra shine on pop vocals since the 1990s '' by taking `` a poorly sung note and transpos [ ing ] it , placing it dead centre of where it was meant to be '' .
In 2004 , `` The Daily Telegraph '' music critic Neil McCormick called Auto-Tune a `` particularly sinister invention that has been putting extra shine on pop vocals since the 1990s '' by taking `` a poorly sung note and transpos [ ing ] it , placing it dead center of where it was meant to be '' .