Imagine the evening news meets Flight of the Conchords in a project mapping an effusion of feeling onto the flattened affect of reporters and politicians. YouTube video art sensation “Auto-Tune the News” moves an irrepressible infectious sincerity through the surface screens of propaganda and irony which are so often proper to politics. Let’s feel it.
Auto-Tune the News #2: Pirates, Drugs and Gay Marriage
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI]
Auto-Tune the News #1: Pentagon Budget Cuts, Economic Woes, March Madness
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduQaCRkgg4]
Flight of the Conchords consider the issues in Episode 2, “Think About It”
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEK0UZH4cs]