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If, like me, you're tired of played out parodies for every single occasion, perhaps the most recent dub of Barack Obama singing "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction will change your mind. YouTube user baracksdubs has provided a series of clips from Obama's various speeches strung together in such a way as to create the lyrics to the song. With some liberal application of Auto-Tune, our Mr. President doesn't sound half-bad. Of course, he doesn't sound half-good either. It's one of those cups-with-some-water-in-it-halfway kind of scenarios.

If you were on the Internet recently, someone made you watch this video of a man, under the influence of several drugs, deities, demons, and other things starting with d probably, proclaiming his awe at the sight of a full-on double rainbow across the sky. What does it mean? It's so bright and vivid! It's just so beautiful. At one point the man is even driven to tears. Make that several points. Well, the Gregory Brothers, the incredible quartet behind Auto-Tune the News, have done the necessary: They have auto-tuned this man's orgasmic rainbow ravings into a catchy song, complete with their own back-up vocals and some sick beats and harmonies. This song is full-on across-the-YouTube amazing double great!

Outside of very specific cases, auto-tune and old TV personalities or public figures don't really mix. Last night's episode of Jeopardy was not one of those cases. Last night in the Double Jeopardy round, one category was "Alex Meets Auto-Tune," wherein Alex Trebek would sing the lyrics to songs in Auto-Tune with some fresh beats pumping in the background, and contestants had to identify the song. I don't want to spoil any of the fun by telling you the specific ridiculous bits before you watch, so let's get straight to the video: