The best part is she sounds just as bad with the autotune, maybe worse - that thing is tuned to some crazy ass discordant scale, makes her sound like an autistic robotic sea lion.
Yes, these things are likely so crappily put together they make it all worse. The question then is if you can find enough people for whom the novelty of autotune isn't dead and buried (I'm guessing 6 to 12 year olds) and then maintain their novelty long enough for them to purchase this shit.
I walked past one of the these at Target the other day. I guess it has a motion sensor because it blared "HEY THIS IS T-PAIN, CHECK OUT THE NEW T-PAIN MICROPHONE!" out of nowhere and scared the shit out of me.
They want to make our artistic exports as cold and vapid as communist artistic creations. Without our rock and roll we'll just start building Pyongyang Towers.