Tag: AMERICAN-IDOL

Have you played with Microsoft Songsmith yet? If not, here's what it does: sing into mic and Songsmith magically creates an accompaniment. Does it work? Well, yes. Mostly. And when it doesn't, the blame can't be placed entirely on Songsmith. Take the following YouTube clip, for example. Black metal - in this case, Naglfar's The Brimstone Gate - probably isn't the best choice for an Idol audition, ...

The Guardian reports that Google is in talks with Simon Fuller, the man behind Britain's Pop Idol, America's American Idol, The Spice Girls, and a whole bunch of other sugar-coated pop icons. Although these talks have reportedly been going on for the past year, it's not clear what, if anything Google and Fuller are planning, other than the fact that it will have something to do with TV. So here ...