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    Microsoft Songsmith Commercial

    Duker91

    5 HN mentions · mentioned in 5 months, 2009–2020

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    4:17 · 2M views · Jan 8, 2009

    A promotional commercial for Microsoft Songsmith, software that generates backing music from a vocal recording. The ad became widely known for its awkwardness.

    HN cites it as an infamous example of terrible advertising, though a few mention how big a splash it made in 2009.

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    5 comments from Hacker News

    1. @scrameSep 2010· in “New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza"”

      Microsoft has a long history of terrible advertising. Here's ballmer in a tacky suit selling windows 1.0: [LINK] Windows 386 (second half, bear with it): [LINK] Songsmith: this video And of course, the absolute worst: [LINK]

      CriticalView on HN
    2. @pedalpeteFeb 2009· in “Microsoft Songsmith creates an interesting song from just a voice recording”

      This is a much better promotional tool for songsmith than that 'internal' video microsoft put out a few weeks ago. this video this is actually appearing to be a pretty amazing product.

      CitesView on HN
    3. @spoppyNov 2019· in “Microsoft Comic Chat”

      Do you mean SongSmith? That wasn't 1990s, more like 2009, but made quite a splash at the time with their famous video commercial. [LINK] this video

      CitesView on HN
    4. @k-mcgradyMay 2013· in “Xbox One Revealed”

      The commercial for Songsmith was one of the worst things I'd ever seen: this video I really wish your comment hadn't reminded me of it :)

      CriticalView on HN
    5. @skuthusJun 2020· in “YouTuber creates fake Nirvana song using artificial intelligence”

      Also, to follow up, the introduction campaign for Songsmith is one of the worst things I've ever seen this video

      CriticalView on HN