When Apple's Siri Met the Flaming Lips [AUDIO] (Mashable)

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Alt-rock band the Flaming Lips samples everyone's favorite iPhone-based personal assistant, Siri, in its new song, "Now I Understand."

The iPhone 4S's personal assistant makes up one vocal track of the song, repeating "Wayne," (Wayne Coyne, the band's lead singer, isn't featured), "I don't understand" and "the moon, the stars and the sun" during the first half of the track.

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The Queen of Neo-Soul, Erykah Badu, sings the hook of the track, while the Lips themselves make provide the instrumentals. Apparently, rapper Biz Markie is also in the track, though we couldn't hear him.

The lips are making the song available for one week only on SoundCloud.

The Flaming Lips are known for being forward-thinking with their music. Last February, the band released a song that could only be heard by playing 12 YouTube videos simultaneously. It followed up by releasing new tracks via USB sticks embedded in candy gummi skulls.

Siri's distinctive voice has already made its way into a number of YouTube songs and duets -- including this gem -- but this is the first time we can recall hearing Siri in a track from a well known band.

What do you think of the track and the way the Flaming Lips are distributing it via SoundCloud? Let us know in the comments.

[via Slate]

This story originally published on Mashable here.

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