DSD

Microsoft Song­smith is a piece of soft­ware that attempts to auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ate back­ground instru­men­tals to go along with a vocal line. Via techcrunch:

the song-making soft­ware is inspir­ing a whole new genre on YouTube where peo­ple alter famous music videos and con­cert footage by strip­ping out the orig­i­nal instru­ments and replace them with tinny key­boards or folk ban­jos, and keep the vocals. The results are a twisted breed of clas­sic hits that are fas­ci­nat­ing in the same way that ter­ri­ble auto­mo­bile acci­dents are.

Here’s one of my favorites (there are many more at techcrunch):

I just have to add a few more:

• Soulja Boy — Crank That Swing
• Brit­ney Spears — Toxic