MICROSOFT SONGSMITH: A METAL CASE STUDY
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 11:55am by Vince Neilstein
If you haven’t heard about the laughing stock that is Microsoft Songsmith by now you’re either dead, completely tuned out, or my grandma. In a nutshell, Songsmith is a new computer program released by Microsoft that automatically creates cheesy sounding, karaoke-style backing music to whatever you sing into it. It’s the modern-day version of those cheesy ’80s Casio keyboards that played a beat and chord progression whenever you hit a new note, only for your voice. But here’s the catch: it’s a complete piece of shit. Since its release a couple of weeks back, the Webernets have exploded with Songsmith-ed versions of famous songs, featuring publicly available a cappella tracks piped into this disaster of a computer program. And the results are simply marvelous and endlessly entertaining.
After the jump, a look at some of the tastiest Songsmith creations based on songs by your metal faves.
First, the original Microsoft Songsmith infomercial:
Metallica – “Battery”
Van Halen – “Runnin With the Devil”
Rush – “Tom Sawyer”
Survivor – “Eye of the Tiger”
Billy Idol – “White Wedding”
Metallica – “Enter Sandman”
Share your own Songsmith with us in the comments!
-VN
Battery and Eye Of The Tiger are just classic!!!
wow, what a pile of shit.
now even more morons are going to think they are real artists.
odds are 2-1 that the next reality show will feature this shit.
I’m not normally a violent person, but the advertising geek in the Microsoft advert makes me want to commit homocide.
I guess I’m your grandma Vince, I’ve never heard of this garbage until today, and you know what? It made my fucking day.
I want this. I can think of soooooooo much stupid shit I can do with it. It’s gonna kick ass.
I haven’t heard of this before either. Funny stuff. Seems like it would be fun to play around with.
OK, tried it out. It sucks. Sucks sooooooo bad. It’s not even good enough to goof off with for more than 10 minutes. I’m just glad I got the official trial instead of wasting my time on pirating it.
I have not heard of this…….so I may be your Grandma.
I have yet to hear about this until now. I may check it out later.
Ahahahhahaah this is amazing, battery was on of the funniest things ive ever seen.
Tom Sawyer actually sounds like something Rush mighta done in the Power Windows phase…had they collaborated with Haddaway
In the program’s defense, the songs are all more or less on-key. I mean, the music fits with the melody, just not in the way you would expect having heard the original.
“Eye of the Tiger” and “White Wedding” were particularly accurate. (Key wise, not original wise.)
“Runnin’ With the Devil” was just weird.
I too, never heard of this program before. And I’m glad.
I dare someone here to play since Morbid Angel’s Dominate into this thing.
Original commercial: Pretty funny.
Battery: Cackle-worthy. Pretty funny.
Running With The Devil: Just ridiculous. Made 100x funnier by the dudes rocking out.
Tom Sawyer: I agree with \m/Eluveitie\m/ (nice screenname btw), this sounds exactly like Power Windows Haddaway.
Eye Of The Tiger: Possibly the funniest out of all of them, just because it actually fits really well.
White Wedding: Pretty weird, but whatever.
Enter Sandman: Does it not pick up key changes? Just hilarious.
Makes great porn movie music!
Thanks for linking to my videos — and thanks for the compliments (from those who liked them).
That advertising guy needs to be slaughtered in the name of…well, anything.That commercial was the stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen in my life.Those people made my tone deaf wigger sister sound like a superstar.
And does anyone else think Enter Sandman sounds like a Depeche Mode song from the early 80’s?That was particularly funny, in my opinion.