Auto-Tune the news - everything sounds better

Jim Leftwich says: "Musical remixing of the news by brothers Michael and Andrew Gregory. The Katie Couric part (at about 1:20, above) is pretty awesome."

Here's another episode of Auto-Tune the News.

[#1 posted by royaltrux, April 23, 2009 10:03 AM]

That is nice - well executed and funny.

[#2 posted by puffmagic, April 23, 2009 10:09 AM]

It pleases me. I am pleased.

[#3 posted by Anonymous, April 23, 2009 10:14 AM]

Thin Ice!

[#4 posted by strider_mt2k, April 23, 2009 10:25 AM]

Nutty bastards.

That was awesome.

[#5 posted by hubs, April 23, 2009 10:47 AM]

When you auto tune Bill Mays' Kaboom commercials he turn into a sad, sad robot.

http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2009/03/05/billy-mays-is-a-sad-robot/

[#6 posted by Anonymous, April 23, 2009 10:49 AM]

I think Charlie Brooker would love this

[#7 posted by jtropp1, April 23, 2009 10:59 AM]

A little recognition of the talents of Sarah Fullen Gregory (pictured with Michael above) is well deserved, too.

The entire family (three brothers + newly-married-in Sarah) is just a pile of talent.

[#8 posted by Palilay, April 23, 2009 11:10 AM]

As an audiogeek I'd like to point out that it's way more likely this was put together using "Celemony Melodyne", than "Antares Autotune". In the even that it WAS put together with Autotune, though, I bow down before whoever put that much time into this awesome remix.

[#9 posted by Andy Baio, April 23, 2009 11:41 AM]

The Katie Couric autotune isn't in the video that was embedded. It's in this one.

[#10 posted by dderidex, April 23, 2009 11:50 AM]

Biden in the #1 vid and Couric in the #2 vid are MIND-blowingly well done. Their style of speech adapts very well to this, and makes it quite ROFLcake.

A lot of the others were rather so-so, but those two *well done*.

[#11 posted by Angstrom, April 23, 2009 12:26 PM]

yeah, the second one is way better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI

is that the one the article was meant link to with the words "Here's another episode of ...", because that's just #1 again.

[#12 posted by godfathersoul, April 23, 2009 12:43 PM]

that made me smile way more than the reunion thing... which, um. did not.

[#13 posted by nemryn, April 23, 2009 1:03 PM]

Couric reminds me of GLaDOS. Possible mash-up?

[#14 posted by Jasonclock, April 23, 2009 2:05 PM]

@ #5 HUBS:

Nitpicking, but that clip (Bill Mays' Kaboom commercial) is not autotune, that's a vocoder.

[#15 posted by Anonymous, April 23, 2009 2:54 PM]

Also check out his video of Martin Luther King, Jr. singing his "I have a dream" speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0F4iXEzOqY

[#16 posted by Tgg161, April 23, 2009 4:14 PM]

I am so happy by these. So brilliant.

[#17 posted by Anonymous, April 23, 2009 4:18 PM]

Australian celeb/musician Red Symons has been doing this for a while too, check out the Election 08 videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/rocsims

[#18 posted by acb, April 23, 2009 4:50 PM]

@8: I think "Autotune" has joined Hoover, Aspirin and Xerox in the purgatory of brands that have become generic nouns for all products in their category. Though I agree that it sounds much easier to do with Melodyne.

[#19 posted by Resident Media Pundit, April 24, 2009 5:40 AM]

The Gregory Brothers are, as #7 pointed out, just a pile of talent. Their non-auto-tuned musical performances are enough to permanently rock your socks off. Proud to have shared the stage with them...

[#20 posted by Anonymous, April 26, 2009 1:35 AM]

@ #8, I'm good friends and bandmates with Michael, and yes, he is using ProTools (or possibly Logic) and the autotune plugin. I know he has had Melodyne in the past but am almost positive that this is Autotune.

[#21 posted by Anonymous, May 17, 2009 6:29 PM]

It's possible that no one loves these videos more than me. It's inspires me the way that Ze Frank's The Show used to. Hail Michael Gregory.