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Ah, the wonders of technology. Don’t let the headline fool you, Oasis isn’t exploring new musical territory, unlike some people I won’t mention. But technology IS exploring Oasis. Er.

Okay, let me start over. You’ve heard of this Microsoft Songsmith program? Basically you take the vocals from any given song, feed them into Songsmith, and it produces what it thinks the backing music should be.

Here are some of the more interesting results:

The Police’s song “Roxanne” as a Latin dance number
Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”, polka version.
Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” as a touching ballad.
Rick Astley’s Rick Roll “Never Gonna Give You Up” a la heavy metal (or as heavy as songsmith seems to get).

I don’t think I’m gonna be able to listen to Sting seriously ever again. Now he’s going to have a mariachi band following him around in my head everywhere I go.

THIS is why we don’t let robots rule the world. Or do we? What do you think? Travesty or new trend?