SongSmith puts more awesome in classic songs. Kinda.

Unbelievably, Microsoft have come up with a product that not only is a good idea, but it pretty fun too. It's called SongSmith. Here's a little bit about it from the web blurb:

Just open up Songsmith, choose from one of thirty different musical styles, and press record. Sing whatever you like – a birthday song for Mom, a love song for that special someone (they’ll be impressed that you wrote a song for them!), or maybe just try playing with your favorite pop songs. As soon as you press “stop”, Songsmith will generate musical accompaniment to match your voice, and play back your song for you. It’s that simple

So basically what happens is you supply the vocals, and then it matches your tone and speed and generates music to accompany whatever you've sung. Pretty nifty. I'm yet to try it out myself as of yet, but this guy here had a go, and it actually looks like it's a lot of fun. But that's not the really awesome thing that it can do. Prepare to have you mind well and truly blown.

What then happens if you take the vocals to some of the most classic songs of all time, and play them through it? Will it come up with anything like the original song?
The answer, simply, is no. Instead it comes up with something much much better. Well, maybe not better, but definitely damn hilarious.

I've hunted around on YouTube and found my top ten SongSmith remixes, but there's loads of others if you look around. These will crack you up, guarenteed.

Queen - We Will Rock You


Motorhead - Ace Of Spades


Survivor - Eye of the Tiger


Sting and the Police - Roxanne


Oasis - Wonderwall


Micheal Jackson - Beat It


Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl


The Killers - Somebody Told Me


Eminem - Lose Yourself


Metallica - Enter Sandman