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Songsmith enter the YouTube Piss-Take Arena

Posted: February 2nd, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Funny, Web | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments »

Ok, if you’ve not read this post have a look through it. But what’s happening has to be seen to be believed.

A few intrepid YouTubers are stripping the vocal tracks out of well known songs and feeding them into Songsmith.

The resulting music is bad, but in a purposeful, ironic way. Adding another jarring layer, they then sync these musical amalgamations with the original song’s music video.

The Police “Roxane”


Radiohead “Creep”


Survivor “Eye of the Tiger”


Billy Idol “White Wedding”


I can’t embed this video because of copyright content claim by Universal Music Group but check out Nirvana – In Bloom (Microsoft Songsmith Remix). It’s really something else altogether.

The hits just keep coming!

I still love YouTube Shreds though…

What do you think? Any more good ones?

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  • http://www.londonshopfronts.com ewebber

    this one makes me want to cry:
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n9S4O974qQ

  • http://www.andykinsella.com admin

    URL seems a bit dodgy?

  • http://blog.entertainmentweakly.com azz100c

    “The resulting music is bad, but in a purposeful, ironic way. ”

    That’s a great description of what I’m trying to do here. Thanks for linking to my videos.