Games Editor  Posts: 4259 Joined: 20 Dec 2005     | |
IT Director  Posts: 1549 Joined: 13 Jun 2002     | With Boku, AutoCollage, and now Songsmith it definitely seems like something is happening at Microsoft to try to get more research projects out into users hands. |
Red Guard  Posts: 3507 Joined: 18 Sep 2008     | This is really funny. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3415 Joined: 28 Jun 2008    | Oh dear Lord, her singing is terrible. Also, she's not singing with her laptop, she's wailing at it. |
Muckraker  Posts: 231 Joined: 9 Oct 2008    | there is nothing funny about this, just painful..... so very painful...... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1094 Joined: 11 Oct 2008     | Gotta... stop... laughing... Christ! Microsoft's researchers must be 12 year old who grew up watching nothing but the teletubies and dora the explorer... My band said my songs have been a little stale lately, maybe THIS is just what I need? I fear to imagine his "Band". Great find, it's another great example of how empty skulled Microsoft is afterall... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 757 Joined: 23 Nov 2008     | Who. Made. This. Ad. Seriously, this person must have been making ads in the 70's and come out of retirement recently. |
IT Director Posts: 1549 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
I don't know about that. They're catering to the High School Musical market - it's good enough to keep Disney afloat. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 780 Joined: 7 Jun 2008     | I'm having a hard time believing that's not a joke. I mean, the product might be real, but I doubt they did that without trying to make it be awful. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1227 Joined: 18 Jun 2008  |
Agreed, I hate the idea but it's smart. Stupid pre-teen girls will take over the world. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 83 Joined: 13 Jun 2008   | OMG. Who is this product for? If you know anything about music and singing, you wouldn't want this program, and if you don't, you can't possibly get good results from it. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 531 Joined: 10 Jul 2008  | Obviously Microsoft is trying to counteract its image as a work only operating system with macs being the trendy new thing. (They need to just keep peddling games to counteract that reputation!) This commercial does fail though. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 214 Joined: 15 Nov 2008  | "Microsoft, huh? So it's pretty easy to use?" Hahahaha And is it just me or does all the backing music sound exactly the same? I guess it's cutting out the middle man in samey sounding music, how long until the recording industry is all over them? |
On the Record  Posts: 5490 Joined: 13 Aug 2008   | Wait, there's a slider for "Happiness" and "Jazziness" but not one for "Brutalness"? |
BANNED  Posts: 1336 Joined: 21 May 2008   |
And hopefully get the next Xbox designed before it comes out :P I really hope it's flawless... And has 100% backwards compatibility... And an Operating System... And that it makes no noise... And that it's smaller... But they thought of that already I hope. User was banned for: TIME Makes Everybody Lose "The Game". (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2361 Joined: 14 Sep 2008    | Can you make metal songs with that thing? |
BANNED Posts: 1336 Joined: 21 May 2008 |
Well obviously pros don't need it, but IMO, whoever you are it's a good way to get ideas for a song. You just say what you wanna say and a song comes out. Then you edit the words and the music to your liking, you get the notes and you do it for real. User was banned for: TIME Makes Everybody Lose "The Game". (Permanent) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 443 Joined: 25 Sep 2008  | Attack of the show made fun of this on G4 a few nights ago, i would never use this thing. I find the Gieco "The money you can save" commercials to be funny... i don't know why.. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3085 Joined: 13 Jul 2008 | This cannot be real. That advert was way too odd. It's like they're all part of some surreall laptop-yelling cult. Scary. |
Paperboy  Posts: 16 Joined: 14 Jan 2009   | I think that the boys and gals at Microsoft are just bored out of their minds |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 648 Joined: 6 Feb 2008   | I think the worst part of this might actually be the lyrics that Microsoft wrote. Everything else is tragic, but the lyrics... I have no words. |
BANNED  Posts: 104 Joined: 6 Jan 2009   | this is hilarioulesley retarded User was banned for: Poll: people who cant spell. (Permanent) |
BANNED  Posts: 11268 Joined: 3 Jan 2009  | This is too hilarious for words. User was banned for: Why do Many Girls take Pictures of Themselves?. (Permanent) |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 21 Jan 2009 | Dunno, but it seems to me they're using a macbook pro half way through this clip (the one with the flowery stickers). Now THAT would be really hilarious.... |
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Microsoft Songsmith Commercial is Excruciatingly Hilarious
There are your standard "so-bad-they're-good" commercials, and then there's the commercial for Microsoft's new Songsmith software, which sets a new standard for "unintentionally hilarious and blissfully unaware of it."
At least a commercial that extols the virtues of "losing weight with AYDS" can use the excuse that the deadly affliction hadn't yet entered public consciousness at the time the advertisement was made. The company responsible for the Songsmith abomination, though? Nuh-uh. You guys ain't getting out of this one that easily.
Okay, let's start off with the not-so-bad. I'm not ashamed to admit that I like musicals, and if the world were literally a stage, I think it would be damn fun (at least for a little while, if Buffy is to be believed). Also, I guess that the underlying tech behind Songsmith - a program that produces Casio-style muzak underneath whatever you warble into your computer microphone - is potentially pretty cool. There, that's what's tolerable.
Everything else, though, is just one disaster after another; I'm honestly not sure where to begin. It isn't so much that the cast just sings its way through some of the blandest and most generic tunes I've heard since the local rock station started playing the new Nickelback album, as much as it is the fact that ... these people are producing a commercial full of so much cheese it would make Green Bay feel insecure, and just seem completely oblivious.
There's so much unintentional hilarity in the four-minute long commercial that it's really something that literally needs to be seen in order to be believed. Our favorite line: "Microsoft, huh? So it's pretty easy to use."
Really, though, that one guy's expression at ~3:15 sums up the entire commercial quite nicely.
Alas, one can't help but wonder what masterpieces the late, great Wesley Willis could have whipped up with Songsmith if he were still around today. The world will never know.
Update: Apparently, Gizmondo has discovered that David Lee Roth and Singsmith is a winning combination. Boy, is it ever.
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