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MTV Music Generator Helped Create Chart Music

Posted by simoniker on from the who'd-have-thunk-it? dept.

sharph writes "A band called Boomkat, made up of Kellin Manning and his sister Taryn, use the Playstation game MTV Music Generator to sketch out songs before re-recording them. Here's a NY Times article about it (Yeah, free reg. required.) Their first single, "The Wreckoning", got to No. 24 on the US pop charts. Interesting read."

2 of 18 comments (clear)

  1. Make Your Own Video by ShaoK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's hope they don't start making videos only using console games.

  2. Now we just need... by metamatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..."MTV Music Listener", and we can cut humans out of the loop entirely and save untold billions of brain cells.

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