Anthony Oliver is not one to mince his words, and in a recent video, he alluded to another country band that used autotune and backtracking while on stage. The rumor got around that it must be Parker McCollum, and he's responded to the claim.
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Anthony hit YouTube again on December 4 to verbally tear the music industry down. In the rant, he accused another artist of using autotune and looping tracks at a gig. He never specified, but his hints were enough.
"A lot of these mainstream acts...everybody runs backing tracks," he started.
He said that when he was performing at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, he saw with his own eyes the artist after him use "six autotune modulators on a pedal board on stage, just to help him with vocal pitch live."
"And they had backing tracks running, drum loops running."
Quite a d--ning claim.
Considering the precise details of the artist, the internet figured out it must be Parker McCollum whom Anthony was referencing. McCollum has seen the video, clip, or the allegations, and has responded, however.
Parker McCollum Defends Himself After Claims Of Autotune And Backtracking
Parker McCollum visited Instagram on horseback to address the growing rumors.
"Hey guys, per the Oliver Anthony interview or whatever it was claiming that he saw drum loop modular or whatever he called it, I don't even know what that is, 100% fabricated lie," he said.
"Never ever, ever, ever one time have I ever used autotune or a drum loop or anything fake of any kind on stage. Me and my guys are ripping it the real deal every single night. There has never been any single part of our show, not one note, that was not live, raw, and in the moment. 100% fabricated story. That is 100% a lie."
McCollum firmly defends himself, saying that whatever Anthony saw wasn't real, or at the least, was misinformed.
It's possible Oliver Anthony did see such equipment. Whether McCollum was the one who used, however, it may not have been made clear to Anthony at the time.
As an anecdote, the story Anthony told is pretty suspect, and McCollum doesn't want such rumors being spread.
