While this could have been anything from Kid A, this is actually a version of “Creep” reworked by Microsoft Songsmith and the peppy beats could potentially completely cure the melancholy infused into countless proto-Goths by this moody yet charming band over the years.
The strange thing is this: SongSmith actually brings out some of the original music here but the quality here is nill. It reminds me of chiptunes. I once heard “Closing Time” done on a Gameboy’s audio processor and the song, which is a bit schmaltzy in the first place, sounded like one of the songs the Music Department would would generate for Hate Week in 1984.
I would totally love to hear “Maps” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. That it would be so hot to hear Karen O caterwauling over what amounts to being the demo tune for a Casio keyboard.
Maybe this is why Radiohead won’t play Creep live anymore.
You can also see such terrible things as me singing the Ben Fold’s cover of Bitches Ain’t Shit:
http://music.metafilter.com/2944/Bitches-Aint-Shit-Songsmithed
Rough stuff.
I’m confused by this article in general, so maybe it answers this question without my seeing it: why does the song say “michael jackson” over and over at times?
I found the answer!
The reason is because Pandora is open in another tab and “Michael Jackson” by Fatboy Slim is playing.
:P
You really need a delete comment option here.
And miss comments like this? Not a chance!
radio head should be totally into this given all the remixes they’ve solicited in recent years…
honestly, i think this version is almost awesome in a really sick sort of way.
“like one of the songs the Music Department would would generate for Hate Week in 1984″
I laughed and laughed. That’s a great analogy, sir. Well played.
Why does SongSmith make everything sound like a Polka? I can just picture jolly people in lederhosen dancing to this…
Maybe it’s just that you’d need to be drunk to actually enjoy it. Yeah, that must be it.
It doesn’t. You get to pick a genre.
The songs appearing on the internet are set to different genres just for kicks (or, I imagine, some are trying to ridicule MS).
Funny, I wrote about the same video & songsmith a couple of days ago.
check the post at blog.9elements.com for some more examples (the oasis wonderwall rave edition is hideous).
You must go listen to “Roxanne” get salsa-fied. Simply amazing.
I have produced music, this is the worst tool for anyone to use to create music. Simply, you cannot create music with it. It’s worthless. I’m sad for anyone who actually spent money on the full version. If you sing into it, it cannot understand what notes you’re using or what key you’re in 90% of the time. It’s absolutely horrible. There are no bridges, choruses, key changes, or introduction. You can’t even define them. You can only do happy melody and you have to hold a note for at least half a bar for it to understand what key you’re using.
The music industry could use some positivity enforcement, maybe they should have to use Songsmith for a year until they cheer up. Have you heard any of the indie rock of the last five years? Depressing. Maybe Obama will pick everyone’s mood up, once the recession is over.
Thanks for linking to my video — glad you liked it. And thanks for the compliments to everyone in this thread.
yes, i thought the video was very well-done, azz100c, and i actually liked that ‘casio keyboard demo tune’ re-mix of ‘creep’. it sounded like an elevator-music-jazzy-reggae-ified-indie-tronic-funkadelic hit is what it sounded like. i was shimmying in my office chair and bobbin’ my head like a maurice clarette bobble=head. i’d like to hear ‘maps’ re-mixed to. that’s one of my favorite songs. has anyone heard richard cheese? or the pixies covers albums? there’s all kinds of lounge/reggae/swing types of covers, but it sounds really cool to have the actual singer for the group singing on top of the remix. i suppose that’s why they call it a remix and not a cover. simple minds’ ‘mad world’, covered by gary jules is awesome. lcd soundsystems’ ‘daft punk is playing in my house’, covered by magic arm… there’s all kinds of great remixes/covers. i want to hear a good one of she wants revenge – ‘tear you apart’.
I believe it would make you fitter, HAPPIER, more productive.
Like a fly I was attracted by the light “AGAIN” please stop this torture. Give this a rest already I rather get KICKED IN THE NUTS.
It’s happier than the original YET MY SOUL IS STILL CRYING.
The chord progression doesn’t fit in some places. Not cool.
Dear Entrepreneurs!
We developed a breakthrough technology.
Then I develped a proposal.
To submit this confidential proposal ,I emaild to many companies(marketing,engineering,customer relation department)and I coould not get any reply.
I need to ask you “How you make some company to read and analyse your proposal “.
Please guide me.
thanks
Let Songsmith die a quite death!
This thing is horrible! What a waste of engineering talent. Another attempt of Microsoft trying to be cool and failing miserably.
This is the single most horrid invention of Microsoft. No joke. This makes Vista look like a shiny new Mercedes Benz in a lot filled with burning heaps of Ford Probes. I just downloaded the trial and wanted to see how my favorite songs would sound like. Can’t do that. Well, okay then how about singing and making up funny lyrics to a beat I can make. Can’t do that. Well, how about one of their preloaded songs? Can I sing to those. Only if you want your ears to fall off and all love of music leak out of them. Okay, now i made a horrible song that draws blood to my ears, might I be able to save this POS anyway to show to my friends for some cheap laughs? Can’t. Do. That. It doesn’t let you. It doesn’t let you save 1 song. All the things you thought might have been fun to do is impossible. They want me to pay 30 dollars for a product that I would use just to see how shitty it is? I’m done. I think I might just go over to the Mac at this point.
This video does Songsmith justice, I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjY2GGZpa1c
hey why’s everyone complaining it’s bad? it’s experimental, instead of discouraging them, why not help them to make it better. It’s not complete, it’s not perfect. But it’s a good start for microsoft.