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chuckmore:

Microsoft Songsmith Ad

I think I agree with BWE’s analysis over Videogum’s. This ad is so horrible and cheesy and gay that there’s no way it wasn’t done on 100% purpose. But just like the ad, the product also looks horrible and cheesy and gay. If Microsoft wanted to go viral so bad that they made a lame product just to do so… it just seems way to un-Microsoft to be possible.

Songsmith means we are just one more step to Orwell’s 1984 now that the Versifacator has been invented.

Here were produced… sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.

“The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound.” -1984