Is it just me, or does this sound like an R. Kelly song? A 24-year-old Brooklyn musician named Michael Gregory has combined a number of evening news broadcast clips and turned them into a vaguely acceptable faux R&B series called Auto-Tune the News. The first video featured Newt Gingrich, the NCAA Championships and Joe Biden. But this one? This one has a gorilla.

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I'm not really sure why there's a gorilla, but I'm also not really sure that it matters. What does matter is the fact that Katie Couric (a.k.a. 'Shorty') performs a touching solo about the fragility of our planet's ecosystem. Watch out, Bono, there's another socially conscious musician out there, and she wants to save the polar ice cap.

  • 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.
  • Songify the News (formerly Auto-Tune the News) is a web series by The Gregory Brothers (and Evan's wife Sarah), under the YouTube username 'schmoyoho' (accent on the yo), that consists of taking news clips and applying the Auto-Tune filter to them.
  • Apr 29, 2009  With both episodes of “Auto-Tune the News,” as with Mr. Gregory’s debate remixes from last fall, and his attempts to mold speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr. And Winston Churchill into contemporary pop songs, it can take a while for the lyrics to sink in, but once they do, it is hard to get these weirdly catchy songs out of your head.
  • Jun 19, 2009 Gregory Brothers return with another stellar jam, this time tackling among other things lettuce and smoke mp3: http://amiestreet.com/music/auto-tune-the-news.

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For those unaware, Auto-Tune is a software program that alters singers' voices to achieve perfect pitch. Used too much — or when they're not actually singing because, y'know, they're on the news — it makes people sound electronic. /dev-c-show-complie-log.html. Cher was the first to use Auto-Tune in her 1998 hit 'Believe,' and since then everyone from Kanye West to Faith Hill has gotten by with a little technical assistance. (Auto-Tune isn't always a way to cheat; Daft Punk turned it into another instrument when they wanted to go all futuristic/animated in their video, 'One More Time')

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So in addition to making fun of nightly news coverage, Gregory has also shown us how ridiculously easy it is to make someone sound like a C-rated pop star (this also explains the musical 'careers' of Brooke Hogan and Heidi Montag). And although there are only two videos so far in Gregory's series, we hope there will be many more (AutoTune the News #3 feat. T-Pain? Maybe?).

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Of course, Auto-Tune doesn't work on everyone. Hillary Clinton still sounds like a robot.