Mesh two songs by Nickelback (“Someday” and “How You Remind Me”), and with some clever editing, you realize both unexpected counterpoint and formula songwriting (MP3, 3.6M). The effect is most pronounced using headphones: the former song is on the left channel, the latter on the right. (Link via Stephen.)
After we listened to this, Thom started humming one of the songs, and I was going to launch into the other one, when I said I could imagine it being given a mock-serious classical treatment. “Like a gay men’s chorus,” Thom suggested. Oh, the burden of our collective overactive imagination.