Microsoft’s new Songsmith program creates horrible muzak on the fly to accompany your singing. If that doesn’t sound like a bad idea to you, please watch this unintentionally hilarious commercial created in a bizarro parallel universe where irony was never discovered. Let’s hope the software doesn’t inspire a Kanye West album. (Also it doesn’t work.)
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i wonder if Justice will start to use this instead of GarageBand.
Funny, it sounds like it worked perfectly.
ok that’s amazing. they should’ve called it Microsoft Wesley Willis.
anyone else notice that the girl is using a mac?
yes! this seriously could not get worse.
they should’ve had Billy Mays host this thing. i might try it if he had.
who could say “no” to that beard?
This still slays Van Hagar!!! Ooooohhhh yeah!!!! (High Kick)
Ahem, David Lee Roth + Microsoft SongSmith = Pure Horror
http://i.gizmodo.com/5129613/david-lee-roth-%252B-microsoft-songsmith–pure-horror
stereogum’s post already links to that.
Funnily enough, to me it seemed that they were trying to be funny and just weren’t that funny… I know it’s more enjoyable to point at Microsoft and say, “Look how idiotic! They don’t even know how funny that commercial is!” But really, I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be ironic. The software is kind of silly and gimicky and I think this ad tries to make that a selling point… If they tried to do a straight faced, serious descriptive ad, I think it would come of a unintentionally funny… I don’t know what this is parodying, but I don’t honestly think Microsoft fails to see the ridiculous nature of the entire thing.
this was definitely supposed to be funny, and it somehow becomes funnier now that i find out that stereogum didn’t get it.
Damn. I want me one of those.
MY GOD…THE GENIUS OF IT!
So, I’m sitting here, doing some work, and a tune keeps running through my head, just underneath my level of conscious annoyance. Suddenly, I focus on it: it’s the stupid daughter’s song!
Microsoft is pure evil.