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Shitty Microsoft program becomes unintentionally awesome – Music | thevine.com.au.

Microsoft’s terrible new Songsmith program – in which it chooses the backing track to put behind your vocals – is turning up some unexpectedly awesome gems.

From the so bad it’s good department comes this hijacking of the Songsmith software. By now you’ve seen the gag-inducing ad. Intended for people to record their vocals into and then turn into a shitty song, canny audiologists are instead taking vocals from famous songs and letting the software see what monsters it can come up with.

Techno versions of Oasis! Lounge music from Van Halen!! Eurotrash from Metallica!!! But I’ll be damned if this mariachi version of The Police’s ‘Roxanne’ isn’t the best song so far this year. I’m not even joking.

I feel a meme coming on.

Van Halen (example)