One of the fun things you may have missed during the last election was a group called the Gregory Brothers (Evan, Michael, Gregory, and Sarah, the “girliest brother”) and their work “songifying” the news. They use Auto-Tune, software originally designed to correct slight pitch discrepancies in singing, to turn spoken words into song. Their first autotuned political videos appeared in 2009 but they first got national attention in 2010 with “Bed Intruder Song”, a song based on an interview with crime victims in an Alabama housing project. During the election, their autotuned rap featuring Mitt Romney describing all the things he likes got frequent airplay on our recently deceased KPOJ.
For Humorousness this month, we decided to give you a look at several of their best vids. If you like them, you can find more on YouTube, where the Gregory Brothers post under the name ‘schmoyoho’.
