More than you ever wanted to hear from Bestselling Author Jenny Crusie.
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I’ve been a huge Autotune the News fan ever since Rachel Maddow first showcased them. Their latest about geese and Chuck Grassley’s dragon is prime stuff:
You can find all eight on You Tube. Genius.
(Here’s the Time Magazine bit on them.)
Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of twenty-one novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies. She lives on the Ohio River where she often stares at the ceiling and counts her blessings.
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13 Comments to 'Great Sound: Autotune the News'
On September 3, 2009 at 2:33 pm Slave Driver said...
I always felt that The News needed more cowbell…
Thanks! I needed a smile today.
On September 3, 2009 at 2:37 pm Louis said...
Marvelous!
Hit my funny-bone very nicely.
On September 3, 2009 at 6:53 pm Beki said...
Looooooove Rachel Maddow! Everyone knows where I am every night at nine.
This is great.
On September 3, 2009 at 11:08 pm Melissa Blue said...
I’m a child of Hip Hop, but even I have to say OMG. I think I hurt something laughing. The mullet, oh, the mullet.
On September 3, 2009 at 11:41 pm Micki said...
Longish post ahead, but I just can’t help but rave! A FBfriend turned me onto Auto-Tune the News just yesterday (highly recommend #5 and #6, btw), and I thought I’d found all 7 of ‘em. Was so pleased to find #8 right here!
But the Time link — whoa! Above and beyond the call of blogging, dear lady! I also clicked the link to Time’s article on the Auto-Tune software, and was absolutely amazed by the secret “tuning” that had been done in the music industry in recent years. V. disturbing, and I need time to process that.
And what’s next? Will there be an auto-tune for writers? What happens when all the mid-listers are pitch-perfect? I guess only the geniuses will be breaking the writing rules and getting away with it.
Although, perhaps perfect pitch is more like getting your spelling and grammar right. In which case, we’ve had that for years. And that’s been a blessing . . . but also maybe fuels the underground of Leet Speak and LOLs New Language? Maybe music will also have a perfect pitch rebellion?
Also: learning the phrase/concept “creative abuse of auto-tuning” is just priceless. AFAIK, no one has creatively abused a spelling/grammar program . . . but while music abuse is still accessible, maybe writing abuse would only get “got” by grammar freaks.
Whoa. What an age we live in! Thanks for finding this; thanks for sharing it!
On September 4, 2009 at 3:40 am Jenyfer Matthews said...
The combination of the earnestness of the news faces with the music is just priceless. So so funny. I’ll never be able to hear the phrase “very thin ice” singing “those geese are cooked” in my head!
On September 4, 2009 at 8:30 am Diane (TT) said...
Great fun! But, Micki, if you think that grammar-checking software has eliminated poor grammar from publishing, you’ve been reading in more rarefied regions than I. Although it may be more poor word usage that leads to the lie/ lay/ laid troubles that make me mildly annoyed by some authors.
Auto-tuning didn’t improve the messages, but may have made them more palatable – not always a good thing!
On September 4, 2009 at 8:52 am robena grant said...
These are fabulous. Thanks.
On September 4, 2009 at 9:10 am TerriO said...
I’ve never heard of this but that is flippin’ hysterical!
On September 4, 2009 at 12:42 pm Kim said...
Amazing. I may never get any real work done ’cause I now have to watch the other 7.
On September 4, 2009 at 3:45 pm JulieB said...
I think I will watch all my news this way from now on. (hee)
On September 5, 2009 at 4:10 am Charlene Teglia said...
I’m not sure if it’s the lettuce-smoking or Joe Biden blessing us from space that’s my favorite, but Autotune the News does a public service by inserting some humor into the grimfest that is the news.
On September 5, 2009 at 11:19 am Katie Mack said...
I love auto-tune the news! Thanks for posting this; I had no idea #8 had been released.