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Songify the News (known as Auto-tune the News for the first thirteen episodes) is an American web series popularized by Brooklyn musician Michael Gregory, and later his band The Gregory Brothers. The Gregory Brothers digitally manipulated recorded voices of politicians, news anchors and political pundits to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing.〔("Band's Parody Helps Keep Auto-Tune Alive" ), John D. Sutter, Time Magazine, Sep 2009〕〔("Auto-Tune the News" ), Claire Suddath, Time Magazine, Apr 2009〕 The group achieved mainstream success with their Bed Intruder Song video which became the most watched YouTube video of 2010.〔("Double rainbows, annoying oranges, and bed intruders: the year on YouTube" ) YouTube Blog, Dec 2010〕 Similar videos, often non-political, thereafter appeared as part of the continuing ''Songify This'' series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=schmoyoho: SONGIFY THIS )〕 The Gregory Brothers continue to create films pertaining to politics and current events on their YouTube channel (Schmoyoho ) using Auto-Tune-like software, in a format much like their original ''Auto-tune the News'' videos. After a hiatus in the series, these clips were rebranded in early 2012 under the title of ''Songify the News''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=schmoyoho: Songify the News )〕 ==Production== Michael, who graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in music and a concentration in recording and production, first created a "debate musical" using footage of the first presidential election debate of 2008 titled "Debate Highlights—in song and dance." This early effort did not use the Auto-Tune software to manipulate the voices of the presidential candidates in the video. His brother Evan, a music major at Swarthmore College '01, encouraged Michael, who had prior experience with Auto-Tune, to attempt to use the software in his next video to make the political figures appear to sing along with the music. Michael used footage from the vice-presidential debate of 2008 as the basis for the Auto-Tune experiment, and the resulting creation, "VP Debate in Song and Dance," became the prototype which the Auto-Tune the News videos would expand upon. As the concept began to attract notice, Michael recruited the rest of the Gregory Brothers to collaboratively develop the Auto-Tune the News series.〔 Because it draws its source material primarily from news footage, the ''Auto-Tune the News'' series has covered myriad topical issues including Arctic shrinkage, health care reform debate in the United States, texting while driving, tobacco regulation, and the alleged sexual assault of Kelly Dodson. Andrew Rose Gregory, who graduated from Swarthmore College in 2004, believes that focusing on unusual or obscure topics is a source of strength for the series, asserting that "()eople are frustrated with pop music because it's all the same over and over again, in terms of being love songs or a song about someone going away. These are songs that aren't about anything you've ever heard a song about." As ''Songify the News'', the series has continued in a format indistinguishable from its predecessor. Further topics, largely United States-related, have been covered, including the 2012〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Get Money, Turn Gay - Songify the News #1 date=2012-01-23 )〕 and 2016 elections,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Smoking Crayfish & Gay Marriage: Songify the News #9 date=2015-07-03 )〕 LGBT rights,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Muffins in Congress - Songify the News #2 date=2012-06-21 )〕 gun laws, and military drone usage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Flying Robots - Songify the News #3 date=2013-08-05 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Songify the News」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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