Microsoft Ruins Everything (Songsmith)

Microsoft released Songsmith last Thursday, a program which lets you create songs using just your voice. You record your vocals over a drum track, and Songsmith does the rest by matching your melody with appropriate chords. You then can adjust your style of music and tempo through easy to use drop-down menus which basically do the creative work for you.

This is the ultimate in music production software if you happen to be an eleven year-old girl who wants to express her inner Jonas Brother with “the cool new thing.” Since everyone already is a DJ and rapper, with Songsmith now everyone can be a producer! Looks like Inf is out of a job. 

The most confusing part of this all is in the commercial they’re using a MacBook Pro with flower stickers covering up the Apple logo. I don’t think this video is a spoof, I think it’s just damn sloppy advertising. I’m leaving you all with an open letter to Microsoft. I hope the message finds its way.

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Dear Microsoft,

Make the Songsmith nightmare go away. You already have the internet…please, don’t take music from us.

xoxo,
Beats Broke

p.s. - Stop ruining everything.

3 Comments   Post a Comment

1. i wonder what would happen if i got microsoft pregnant, then never called her again.

   Comment by max — Jan 13 2009 @ 11:43 am

2. I don’t see the problem, as long as you need a macbook pro to run it. I don’t know any 11 year olds who own one.

   (I on the other hand do – so expect my new album to be ready a lot faster now)

   Comment by Arts — Jan 14 2009 @ 6:53 am

3. That commercial really makes me want to smack my head into the wall.. multiple times.

   The mental image of Arts making a track with songsmith on the other hand just made me fall of my chair laughing

   Comment by niwa — Jan 19 2009 @ 6:11 am

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