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  <title>Comments for Microsoft Attempts To Kill Music Forever With Songsmith Commercial</title>
  <subtitle>Shoppers bite back.</subtitle>
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    <published>2009-01-15T00:37:52Z</published>
    <updated>2009-01-15T01:27:04Z</updated>
    <title>Microsoft Attempts To Kill Music Forever With Songsmith Commercial</title>
    <summary>--&gt;</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Chris Walters</name>
      
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      <![CDATA[<p><object width="506" height="311" class="left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3oGFogwcx-E&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3oGFogwcx-E&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="506" height="311" class="left gawkerVideo"></embed></object><!--<img src="http://consumerist.com/images/31/2009/01/3oGFogwcx-E_01.jpg" style="display: none;" class="embeddedVideoThumbnail"/>--></p>]]>
      <![CDATA[<p>My ears are shooting streams of blood<br />
As I watch this demo play<br />
But thanks to <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/songsmith/">Songsmith's</a> magic touch<br />
I'll write like Bruce Springsteen</p>
<p>You don't have to rhyme when you're using Songsmith. The demo showed me.</p>
<p><i>(Thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/suryasnair">suryasnair</a>!)</i></p>]]>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10125615</id>
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    <title>Comment from CyberSkull on 2009-01-18</title>
    <author>
        <name>CyberSkull</name>
        <uri>http://homepage.mac.com/cyberskull/</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>29 seconds in and my auditory processing has shut down to protect the rest of my brain. I may never hear again!</p>]]>
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    <published>2009-01-18T08:45:45Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10083543</id>
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    <title>Comment from savdavid on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>savdavid</name>
        <uri></uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Wow, what an amazing thing!! My annoying daugther was singing with her laptop at the same time I was going to lose my job if I didn't come up with an ad for glow-in-the-dark towels. Life can be so kind! Thank you God....and Songsmith! You are a hit with me! (smile and wink)</p>]]>
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    <published>2009-01-16T04:44:49Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10072569</id>
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    <title>Comment from Craig on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>Craig</name>
        <uri>http://www.whatsonpodcast.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Apparently a product manager at Microsoft thought that "High School Musical" was a reality show.</p>
<p>The look on the guy's face at 3:15 pretty much sums it up for me.</p>]]>
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    <published>2009-01-15T23:34:11Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10071076</id>
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    <title>Comment from senor_tron on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>senor_tron</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>sad</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T22:50:33Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10068414</id>
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    <title>Comment from TruPhan on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>TruPhan</name>
        <uri>http://cheapshot.mu.nu</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10059515" rel="nofollow">S-Meow P-Meow</a>: I wish my girlfriend could muster any words.  She just sat there in stunned, wide-eyed silence. Afterward told me that this commercial is what the holocaust sounded like.</p>]]>
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    <published>2009-01-15T21:30:50Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10068248</id>
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    <title>Comment from arkitect75 on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>arkitect75</name>
        <uri>http://</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I'm turning up the Jazzy meter now.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T21:25:51Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10067769</id>
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    <title>Comment from RickeyRickay on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>RickeyRickay</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p><p>Ear Rape!</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T21:11:10Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10067527</id>
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    <title>Comment from Oranges w/ Cheese on the move on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>Oranges w/ Cheese on the move</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10049758" rel="nofollow">pb5000</a>: oh god. If someone did that I think I'd have to be carted off for the severe fits of laughter it would induce.</p>]]>
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    <published>2009-01-15T21:02:28Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10067452</id>
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    <title>Comment from SharkD on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>SharkD</name>
        <uri>n/a</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047714" rel="nofollow">se7a7n7</a>: Is it me, or is there a hint of Auto-Tune when the little girl is singing her awful, awful song?</p>
<p>But hey, who am I to... <i>Judge.  My name is...</i></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T20:59:55Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10065332</id>
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    <title>Comment from johnfrombrooklyn on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>johnfrombrooklyn</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Notice how this came out the same day a Bush official admitted that some prisoners at Abu Ghraib were tortured?  This is not a coincidence.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T19:44:30Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10064244</id>
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    <title>Comment from hi on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>hi</name>
        <uri>http://</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p><p>I got to "I'm making songs with Song..." then I had to turn the video off for the sake of my ears.</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T18:20:44Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10064150</id>
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    <title>Comment from chenry on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>chenry</name>
        <uri>http://chenry.livejournal.com</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10049758" rel="nofollow">pb5000</a>: Wow.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T18:07:35Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10064145</id>
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    <title>Comment from chenry on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>chenry</name>
        <uri>http://chenry.livejournal.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>It's like my nightmares made real.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T18:07:11Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from homerjay wants Boston Legal back! on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>homerjay wants Boston Legal back!</name>
        <uri>n/a</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10060486" rel="nofollow">Con Seannery hates Facebook and Trebek</a>: Bingo.</p>]]>
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    <published>2009-01-15T17:50:25Z</published>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10063940</id>
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    <title>Comment from ckaught78 on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>ckaught78</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p><p>In thinking about this ad for songsmith, I give Microsofts marketing department cudos. To me it is meant to be cheesy and bad. It's viral marketing. This video is now being sent all over the interweb and now millions of people know about songsmith. Had the ad not been like this no one would have cared.</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T17:24:29Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10062457</id>
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    <title>Comment from jp7570 on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>jp7570</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p><p>wow, I mean, just, wow.</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T12:04:18Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10062063</id>
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    <title>Comment from Cliff_Donner on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>Cliff_Donner</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10049092" rel="nofollow">TheThirstMutilator</a>: Thank you!  Exactly!  This appears to be the 21st century equivalent of the Casio, except instead of hitting a single key on a keyboard and having the machine spit out a lame chord with a choppy beat, you can just sing it into a microphone.</p>
<p>Though, I have no doubt, just like with the Casio, there will be at least one artist that will turn this into <b>genius!</b></p>
<p>Krisma - Fido (c. 1983):<br />
<a></a></p><p></p>
<p>The 5-percent nation of Casiotone, indeed!</p>
]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T11:06:15Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10061773</id>
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    <title>Comment from Tsubasa on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>Tsubasa</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047952" rel="nofollow">Doug81</a>: How dare you even mention GarageBand in this context.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T10:29:43Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10060556</id>
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    <title>Comment from S-Meow P-Meow on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>S-Meow P-Meow</name>
        <uri>http://</uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10060126" rel="nofollow">TechnoDestructo</a>: +1 accuracy.  I still remember when the whole 'Track Version Changes' issue was introduced with their native Word Doc format, it was quite nice to see their Active Directory introductory document 's/ZoomIt Technologies/Microsoft/gi'</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T08:54:41Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Con Seannery hates Facebook and Trebek on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>Con Seannery hates Facebook and Trebek</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10049050" rel="nofollow">Ash78</a>: If you give me enough magnets, I can make it happen.</p>]]>
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    <published>2009-01-15T08:51:26Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Con Seannery hates Facebook and Trebek on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>Con Seannery hates Facebook and Trebek</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
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        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10053895" rel="nofollow">Valhawk</a>: Dubya debunked that one.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T08:50:54Z</published>
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    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10060126</id>
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    <title>Comment from TechnoDestructo on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>TechnoDestructo</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>This is a genuine innovation from Microsoft.  It joins "Bob" on the long list of two Microsoft innovations.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T08:31:47Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10059515</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10059515" />
    <title>Comment from S-Meow P-Meow on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>S-Meow P-Meow</name>
        <uri>http://</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://">
        <![CDATA[<p>I made my wife watch songsmith.</p>
<p>2:15 - What the hell is this?<br />
3:00 - This makes me want to punch you in the face<br />
3:45 - Turn this off, this is stupid, turn it off, it's really pissing me off.<br />
4:00 - I am so angry right now</p>
<p>Then, I showed her the Microsoft Songsmith site and the demos.</p>
<p>"I'm very pissed, get away from me, and I'm angry because you made me cuss"</p>
<p>Hell is a curse word to my wife.</p>
<p>Songsmith.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T08:04:32Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10058447</id>
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    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10058447" />
    <title>Comment from veronykah on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>veronykah</name>
        <uri>http://streetwalkinglosangeles.blogspot.com/</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://streetwalkinglosangeles.blogspot.com/">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10053481" rel="nofollow">smallestmills</a>: Oh no, you are not the only one.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T07:02:55Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10056540</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10056540" />
    <title>Comment from Mr.DuckSauce on 2009-01-15</title>
    <author>
        <name>Mr.DuckSauce</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10049758" rel="nofollow">pb5000</a>: wow, that guy should never talk, ever!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T05:22:49Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10055555</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10055555" />
    <title>Comment from closed_account on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>closed_account</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>Okay, Im at 3:45... when do I find out this is a joke?</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T04:38:54Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10055296</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10055296" />
    <title>Comment from Xero_Azmea on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Xero_Azmea</name>
        <uri>http://</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://">
        <![CDATA[<p>Did anyone else notice that this was running on a Macbook...? Hahaha.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T04:28:01Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10055233</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10055233" />
    <title>Comment from ckaught78 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>ckaught78</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>This give me deuche chills</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T04:25:03Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10055095</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10055095" />
    <title>Comment from acrobatic rabbit on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>acrobatic rabbit</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>@<a href="http://consumerist.com/5131381/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial#c10049254" rel="nofollow">Franklin Comes Alive!</a>: hahahaha! with Songsmith you can really rock Saddam Hussein's ass.</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T04:19:06Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10055068</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10055068" />
    <title>Comment from TCTH on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>TCTH</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>That has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T04:17:49Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10054499</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10054499" />
    <title>Comment from joel. on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>joel.</name>
        <uri>http://joel.thegoodmanblog.com</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://joel.thegoodmanblog.com">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047674" rel="nofollow">Chris Walters</a>: Check out <a href="http://coversmith.com" rel="nofollow">Coversmith.com</a> too - especially if you're going to make your own cover songs in Songsmith.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T03:55:37Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10054115</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10054115" />
    <title>Comment from SacraBos on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>SacraBos</name>
        <uri>http://www.sacrabos.com</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.sacrabos.com">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047871" rel="nofollow">GuinevereRucker</a>: That one had me rolling, too!</p>
<p>Now Starbucks is going to be intolerable with Guitar-Hero musician wannabes that can not only "play" the guitar, but think they can sing and write music, too.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T03:41:32Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10053962</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10053962" />
    <title>Comment from SacraBos on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>SacraBos</name>
        <uri>http://www.sacrabos.com</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.sacrabos.com">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047674" rel="nofollow">Chris Walters</a>: Many years back, I saw Van Halen live.  This actually sounded better than DLR did in concert...</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T03:36:08Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10053895</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10053895" />
    <title>Comment from Valhawk on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Valhawk</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10050336" rel="nofollow">homerjay wants Boston Legal back!</a>: I'm kind of working off the "there is no such thing as bad publicity" model.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T03:34:06Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10053574</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10053574" />
    <title>Comment from smallestmills on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>smallestmills</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10052605" rel="nofollow">JGKojak</a>: <br />
I'm glad I read through the comments, Wesley Willis was my first thought when I saw this!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T03:23:53Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10053481</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10053481" />
    <title>Comment from smallestmills on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>smallestmills</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10048107" rel="nofollow">Ookseer</a>: <br />
Finally!!!  Everyone thinks I'm horrible when I say the worst sound ever is the sound of children singing!</p>
<p>Okay, I am horrible, but at least I'm not the only one.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T03:21:06Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10053147</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10053147" />
    <title>Comment from Alexander Saites on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Alexander Saites</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10050128" rel="nofollow">Parapraxis</a>: I was crying with laughter. This is so comically awful. Thank you!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T03:11:54Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10052605</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10052605" />
    <title>Comment from JGKojak on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>JGKojak</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>"Just think of this thing as your own personal Wesley Willis simulator."</p><br />
<p>Can you imagine is Wesley has access to this thing? Now that would make it worthwhile.</p><br />
<p>There's only one thing to say to this...<br />Rock 'n Roll McDonalds! <a></a></p><br />
<a></a><br /><a>+ Watch video</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<p></p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:57:47Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10052072</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10052072" />
    <title>Comment from QitarahQuail on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>QitarahQuail</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>If you go to the songsmith forums it is clear from the developers that the cheesiness was deliberate and they wanted exactly this response in the blogworld, 100 x more publicity for their software!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:44:13Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10051915</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10051915" />
    <title>Comment from drjayphd on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>drjayphd</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>@<a href="http://consumerist.com/5131381/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial#c10049254" rel="nofollow">Franklin Comes Alive!</a>: Well, that's convenient, as the link where David Lee Roth's vocals were run through it makes me want to headbutt people...</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:40:13Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10051833</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10051833" />
    <title>Comment from P_Smith on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>P_Smith</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>Cripes, this makes Philip Glass sound good.</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:37:48Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10051185</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10051185" />
    <title>Comment from quirkyrachel on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>quirkyrachel</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>If anyone wants to hear it, I'll going to be walking down the street in Chicago later today singing about how my towels rock!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:20:00Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10051076</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10051076" />
    <title>Comment from WalrusTaco on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>WalrusTaco</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047674" rel="nofollow">Chris Walters</a>:</p>
<p>My vocal self esteem just went from "bashful" to "Gordon Gecko" after listening to that clip.</p>
<p>hooooayayaaaayahhhhhhhhh!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:17:04Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10050786</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10050786" />
    <title>Comment from WalrusTaco on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>WalrusTaco</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>I like how he's using a MacBook Pro with girly stickers on it.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:08:22Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10050693</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10050693" />
    <title>Comment from Trai_Dep on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Trai_Dep</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047871" rel="nofollow">GuinevereRucker</a>: Yeah, that line caught my attention too. Glad I read the comments before posting. :D</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:06:12Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10050568</id>
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    <title>Comment from S-Meow P-Meow on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>S-Meow P-Meow</name>
        <uri>http://</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://">
        <![CDATA[<p>I just punched myself in the face.  Someone make Songsmith sing a song about MSFT's falling stock price.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:02:15Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10050533</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10050533" />
    <title>Comment from El_Fez on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>El_Fez</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>Ah, to hell with songsmith - I wanna know how I can get some glow in the dark towels! That shit's the BOMB!</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T02:01:13Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10050336</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10050336" />
    <title>Comment from homerjay wants Boston Legal back! on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>homerjay wants Boston Legal back!</name>
        <uri>n/a</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="n/a">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10048968" rel="nofollow">Valhawk</a>: Well, if by "huge success" you mean "makes me want to kick a puppy" then yeah, I guess that would be a successful ad.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:55:39Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10050128</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Parapraxis on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Parapraxis</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>nothing, NOTHING, will ever match the pure majesty of this:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html" rel="nofollow">[blog.wired.com]</a></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:50:04Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10050124</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10050124" />
    <title>Comment from quail on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>quail</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>That music's giving me flashbacks to malls of the 1970's where there was an electric organ store around every turn.  And my step-dad would sing and play like the attention starved, whore monger he was.</p>
]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:50:01Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10050076</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Ash78 ain&apos;t got time to bleed on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Ash78 ain&apos;t got time to bleed</name>
        <uri>n/a</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="n/a">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>@<a href="http://consumerist.com/5131381/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial#c10049254" rel="nofollow">Franklin Comes Alive!</a>: Perfect.</p><br />
<p>Rock over London. Rock on Chicago. Songsmith: It Helps You Rock</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:48:46Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049888</id>
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    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10049888" />
    <title>Comment from foodporncess on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>foodporncess</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047952" rel="nofollow">Doug81</a>: I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Brilliant.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:42:52Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049778</id>
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    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html#c10049778" />
    <title>Comment from bubbaprog on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>bubbaprog</name>
        <uri>http://www.entertainmentweakly.com/blog</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.entertainmentweakly.com/blog">
        <![CDATA[<p>Meanwhile, the YouTubers are sending the vocals of classic hit songs through Songsmith to see what it comes up with. Here's one guy doing it, so far he's done "Wonderwall," "Long Train Runnin'" and "What's Going On." The results are both hilarious and awful.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/azz100c" rel="nofollow">[www.youtube.com]</a></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:39:17Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049758</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from pb5000 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>pb5000</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>Someone should run Steve Ballmer's crazy yelling in those old windows commercials through songsmith and see what comes up?<a></a></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:38:28Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049675</id>
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    <title>Comment from Doug81 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Doug81</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10049356" rel="nofollow">Smashville</a>: Are you going to put cool stickers on it like the guy in the ad?</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:35:47Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049609</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Doug81 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Doug81</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>I think Songsmith could pass as a neat toy if it were free. Everything sounds like it's played on an old keyboard though. It's a neat idea but it just doesn't seem to be a finished product that should be selling for $30. Or they may just have a different market segment in mind.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:33:37Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049571</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Carey Drake on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Carey Drake</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>That video made me want to install Linux... or hurl. Mostly the second.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:32:19Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049519</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from adrock75 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>adrock75</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>My favorite part is when the bitchy Asian boss lays a smack-down on Chip for bullshitting about demographics.</p>
<p>Cut that SHIT OUT!  She wants to hear Miles sing while having an epileptic seizure.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:30:46Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049476</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Chris Walters on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Chris Walters</name>
        <uri>http://twitter.com/consumerchris</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://twitter.com/consumerchris">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10048192" rel="nofollow">Franklin Comes Alive!</a>: I got a Muppet over the holiday, and I've been using ProductionTrax songs to accompany his awful lyrics. Now I will go 100% Songsmith 100% of the time. (I am telling you because of your avatar.)</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:29:27Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049356</id>
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    <title>Comment from Smashville_OrderingOJandTakingNames on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Smashville_OrderingOJandTakingNames</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>I'm buying a Macbook...and not having kids...thanks Microsoft!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:25:43Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049254</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Franklin Comes Alive! on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Franklin Comes Alive!</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>Just think of this thing as your own personal Wesley Willis simulator.  Sweet.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:22:18Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049092</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from TheThirstMutilator on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>TheThirstMutilator</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>I love the description on the website:</p>
<p>"What if I do know how to write music?<br />
Songsmith is for you too. Songwriters can use Songsmith as an "intelligent scratchpad" to work with new melodies, quickly turning your scratch recordings of new ideas into richer, deeper explorations."</p>
<p>Just like the way my old Casio used to.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:17:35Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10049050</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Ash78 ain&apos;t got time to bleed on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Ash78 ain&apos;t got time to bleed</name>
        <uri>n/a</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="n/a">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>Seems like it might work okay for modern country or Top-40 pop. Most other stuff is a little more complex, on average. Just like you can't use refrigerator magnets to write Shakespeare.</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:16:07Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048968</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Valhawk on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Valhawk</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10048895" rel="nofollow">Valhawk</a>: Also arguable this ad has been a huge success since it's become a viral hit.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:13:58Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048895</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Valhawk on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Valhawk</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>Let's not be to harsh, all the people in that commercial are people who work at Microsoft research, plus Songsmith is the most hilarious thing to come out of Microsoft in a long time.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:12:17Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048841</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from ovalseven on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>ovalseven</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>@<a href="#c10048736" rel="nofollow">Myself</a>:</p><br />
<p>Nevermind. I was the one not paying attention.</p><br />
</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:10:57Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048796</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Blueskylaw on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Blueskylaw</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>It looks like a commercial for FRIENDS with new cast members.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:09:51Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048778</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from gumby101 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>gumby101</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>Yeah, I second that.  Microsoft needs to find a new ad company, FAST!</p>
<p>Where's Don Draper when you need him?</p>
<p>That commercial was hard to watch with it's sickly sweet and corny appeal.</p>
<p>I think if I tried to use that song in a presentation to my boss, I'd be laughed at or fired.</p>
<p>Bye.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:09:23Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048768</id>
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    <title>Comment from MKULTRABLIZZARD on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>MKULTRABLIZZARD</name>
        <uri>http://www.thelefthandpath.com</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thelefthandpath.com">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047952" rel="nofollow">Doug81</a>:</p>
<p>good call on MacBook!</p>
<p>FWIW, i couldn't make it past 30 seconds of this vid.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:09:09Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048743</id>
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    <title>Comment from se7a7n7 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>se7a7n7</name>
        <uri>http://</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10048192" rel="nofollow">Franklin Comes Alive!</a>: Your user ID and pic just connected with me HILARIOUS!!!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:08:18Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048742</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from hhole on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>hhole</name>
        <uri>http://www.seattlecantdrive.com</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.seattlecantdrive.com">
        <![CDATA[<p>Everyone, you are seeing the new tool that will be exclusively used in the "reeducation camps" of the next despotic regime.</p>
<p>Now, if I just had someway to put that into song...</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:08:11Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048736</id>
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    <title>Comment from ovalseven on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>ovalseven</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>C'mon Chris. Weren't you paying attention? It should go something like this (sing along):</p><br />
<p>"My ears are shooting streams of blood<br /><br />
As I watch this demo <b>play</b></p><br />
<p>But thanks to Songsmith's magic touch<br /><br />
I sound like Marvin <b>Gaye</b>"</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:08:01Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048598</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Xerloq, we are all made of stars. on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Xerloq, we are all made of stars.</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>They make horrible commercials!</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:04:16Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048460</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Triborough on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Triborough</name>
        <uri>http://thenewyorklimes.com/</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://thenewyorklimes.com/">
        <![CDATA[<p>This ad seems like something that would be used to torture prisoners.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T01:00:32Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048192</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Franklin Comes Alive! on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Franklin Comes Alive!</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#c10047714" rel="nofollow">se7a7n7</a>:</p>
<p>See the first comment.  I was going to post it, but Chris beat me to it.  This alone validates the existence of Songsmith.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T00:54:26Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10048107</id>
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    <title>Comment from Ookseer on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Ookseer</name>
        <uri>http://grathio.com</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grathio.com">
        <![CDATA[<p>To be fair most of the people in this 'ad' are Microsoft employees who developed the thing and they produced this thing on a lark, which explains the unnatural Bible Summer Camp Counselor exuberance for everything in sight.</p>
<p>On the other hand I'm firmly in the camp of people who have an unrelenting hatred for girls that age singing anything ever.</p>
<p>(Disclaimer: I couldn't make it more than half way through this video.)</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T00:52:24Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10047952</id>
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    <title>Comment from Doug81 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Doug81</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>Songsmith on a mac book pro. Nice!</p>
<p>It's poor attempt to take on garageband I guess? Extra poor as it costs $30.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and horrible music.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T00:48:47Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10047871</id>
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    <title>Comment from GuinevereRucker on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>GuinevereRucker</name>
        <uri></uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="">
        <![CDATA[<p>HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA</p>
<p>"Microsoft huh?  So it's pretty easy to use?"</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHHA</p>
<p>Like... Winbloze?</p>
<p>Well, back to recording in Logic.</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T00:46:26Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10047744</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from valarmorghulis on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>valarmorghulis</name>
        <uri>http://twitter.com/valarmorghulis</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://twitter.com/valarmorghulis">
        <![CDATA[<p><p>I feel like the beginning of this demo was autobiographical.</p></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T00:43:19Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10047714</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from se7a7n7 on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>se7a7n7</name>
        <uri>http://</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://">
        <![CDATA[<p>Songsmith doesn't just make music. It makes music HORRIBLE!!!</p>
<p>I like how this guy isn't bothered at all when 2 people start staring at his laptop to see what he's doing...</p>
<p>My response would be more like, "how about you get out of my business before I hit you?"</p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T00:42:39Z</published>
  </entry>

  <entry>
    <id>tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381-comment:10047674</id>
    <thr:in-reply-to ref="tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5131381" type="text/html" href="http://consumerist.com/2009/01/microsoft-attempts-to-kill-music-forever-with-songsmith-commercial.html"/>
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    <title>Comment from Chris Walters on 2009-01-14</title>
    <author>
        <name>Chris Walters</name>
        <uri>http://twitter.com/consumerchris</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://twitter.com/consumerchris">
        <![CDATA[<p>And here's David Lee Roth put through Songsmith:<br />
<a href="http://music.metafilter.com/2943/Runnin-With-The-Songsmith" rel="nofollow">[music.metafilter.com]</a></p>]]>
    </content>
    <published>2009-01-15T00:41:38Z</published>
  </entry>


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