Microsoft’s New Video Site Promises Just As Much Time-Wasting Crap As YouTube

Video: Touch me: Samantha Fox & Günther

Now that the YouTube-Google sale has been announced, Microsoft’s finally gotten around to launching its own video service, Soapbox (no word yet about when the clearly ahead-of-the-game company will start up its own rotary-phone units). So far, there aren’t a whole lot of music clips on the site. But the clips that have made it up are promising, because they’re almost all complete and utter crap–the kind of niche-specific crap that could only be uploaded by users. We’re talking Chinese pop songs, home-made video montages, and Limp Bizkit videos. For the moment, it looks as though Microsoft and the record labels aren’t imposing their own editorial will on Soapbox, which could allow it to grow into a sort of anything-goes populist playground, a la YouTube.

Want proof? Check out this new-ish Samantha Fox video, in which she re-records “Touch Me” with somebody named Günther, who has a perpetual come-hither stare and a guido get-up that has to be a joke (we hope). As the clip’s poster notes, this is Muy provocativo stuff, and Bill Gates is hoping you can’t get enough of it.

Samantha Fox & Günther – Touch Me [Soapbox]