Songsmith is a piece of software made by Microsoft which helps those of us without any musical talent make music, sort of. You sing into a microphone, the software runs it through its algorithms, and spits out a new version with accompanying background music. For those of us with roughly the musical ability of a two-year old banging on a pot with a wooden spoon, this is actually has some appeal.

Some people realized that you could feed in the vocal tracks from some popular songs, and you’d get out whole new version of the song.

I never thought I’d ever post something by Rush on the blog, but here’s Songsmith’s version of Tom Sawyer:

See also: Eye of the Tiger, Buddy Holly, Creep, Notorious B.I.G., and Sgt. Pepper.
Doesn’t look like anyone has tried putting in Bohemian Rhapsody, but someone should.
Via Vorg.

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