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Microsoft Songsmith Commercial
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A promotional commercial for Microsoft Songsmith, software that generates backing music from a vocal recording. The ad became widely known for its awkwardness.
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HN cites it as an infamous example of terrible advertising, though a few mention how big a splash it made in 2009.
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This is a much better promotional tool for songsmith than that 'internal' video microsoft put out a few weeks ago. [VIDEO] this is actually appearing to be a pretty amazing product.
Read original comment ↗Do you mean SongSmith? That wasn't 1990s, more like 2009, but made quite a splash at the time with their famous video commercial. [LINK] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Microsoft has a long history of terrible advertising. Here's ballmer in a tacky suit selling windows 1.0: [LINK] Windows 386 (second half, bear with it): [LINK] Songsmith: [VIDEO] And of course, the absolute worst: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗The commercial for Songsmith was one of the worst things I'd ever seen: [VIDEO] I really wish your comment hadn't reminded me of it :)
Read original comment ↗Also, to follow up, the introduction campaign for Songsmith is one of the worst things I've ever seen [VIDEO]
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