'Sometimes it’s dark, but you still need to get dry...'
Microsoft have managed to make a splash with a new piece of music software – but unfortunately for them, that’s mostly because people are mocking the promotional video
Songsmith is a program that automatically generates a musical track when the user sings at it. The charmingly terrible promo film, featuring the singing talents of some of the developers who created Songsmith, has caused confusion and amusement in equal measure.
From the cheesy music to the endearingly awkward performances, not to mention the baffling lyrics about glow-in-the-dark towels, the video has had a unusually unanimous response: ‘what?’‘
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
It’s like Microsoft found some kind of home-schooling Christian commune in the woods and hired them to make their commercial,’ wrote Lindsay Robertson on Videogum.
Meanwhile, Father Ted writer Graham Linehan was moved to ask: ‘What is this? Why aren’t you just FIXING VISTA?’
The actual output of the program has been causing some heavy LOLing as well. One member of the community weblog MetaFilter, mrzarquon, had the genius idea of putting the David Lee Roth vocals from Van Halen’s Runnin’ With The Devil through Songsmith. The result sounds simultaneously like the best and the worst karaoke moment in history. And sounds nothing like Runnin’ With The Devil.
