After the last post’s heavy philosophical content, I thought I might bring the serious tone down a little with a bit of, um, music.
Auto-Tune the News is a highly successful series of videos on YouTube produced by Michael Gregory from the band “The Gregory Brothers”. They feature almost everything you could ever want from a video: R&B music, humour, US politics, and a liberal spreading of electronic auto-tune.
For those who are unaware of the magic of auto-tune, it’s basically an electronic method of pitch correction: if a singer is singing slightly off-key, you can whack on a bit of auto-tune and they sound as right as rain falling in F# major. Of course, the question is, why use it only a little bit when you can go mental, Mythbusters style (except with music, not explosives)?
All of the Auto-Tune the News videos feature, as their name suggests, US news broadcasters, or political figures from US news broadcasts, being auto-tuned to songs that Michael Gregory and his band create. Yes, that’s right, with auto-tune, you can tune untuned sounds to a specific key. In short, they make people sing when they’re just talking normally, often with humorous results.
Five videos have been put up so far in the series, and I’ll share with you the fifth one, which is arguably my favourite. It’s just so catchy!
The rest of the Auto-Tune the News videos can be found on Michael Gregory’s YouTube channel.
Heh, I've created a monster, haven't I?
Are you referring to the utter pointlessness of this post? Because I'll just say to that: one can never have enough auto-tune. Never.
Thanks for the introduction. My life finally feels complete