Monsters In My Routine and Turning The Knobs (two songs to download)
Yes, I'm back with some more AI-generated music. But this time with a twist.
Monsters In My Routine
The first song is about somebody who people think is a bit weird ("maybe she's on the spectrum") because she has all of these little things that have to be done in just the right way in order to keep the monsters away.
With prompting, Suno came up with the song concept. I tweaked the lyrics, changed some things around and rewrote other bits. Then a few retries to get a song I liked the sound of. For this one, going for an '80s synth vibe.
As always, the song has credits, album art, and embedded lyrics.
Turning The Knobs
This song is different. An AI did not come up with the lyrics. I did.
I had the idea while I was at work, and I went through a few iterations in my head while my body was on autopilot. I'm sure I had some brilliant ideas, but what is less brilliant is my memory which is about as reliable as a ZX81's wobbly RAM Pack.
So I was sitting in bed at about quarter past ten yesterday evening (hence why I picked that time in the song) and I opened a simple note editor on my phone and started to jot down some words, a rough sort of poetry, but what I could pay attention to now that was harder to do at work is how many syllables per line.
For instance, the first verse is:
Every night at a quarter past ten
I make a tea and head down to the den
I give the knobs a bit of a turn
Because you humans never ever learn
which can be broken down as:
Ev|ry|night|at|a|quar|ter|past|ten (9)
I|make|a|tea|and|head|down|to|the|den (10)
I|give|the|knobs|a|bit|of|a|turn (9)
Be|cause|you|hu|mans|ne|ver|e|ver|learn (10)
While the 9, 10, 9, 10 is fairly arbitrary (the chorus is 12, 12, 8, 8) what is important is to have lines that flowed (so no awkward phrasing as heard in some songs). I threw away plenty of ideas that just didn't fit.
Then, for the subsequent verses, to keep to the same pattern.
The song is structured with a verse, a chorus, a second verse, the chorus again, a third verse, a bridge just to shake things up a little, followed by the chorus, and finally an outro which repeats the first line of the chorus and gives it something different at the very end. The final line doesn't rhyme or fit into the meter of the song, it isn't supposed to.
If you listen carefully (or read the lyrics...) you'll notice that the second line of the chorus is slightly different each time. It's those little details that I really appreciate in a song. I know the chorus repeats and the chorus repeats and so on, but that doesn't mean it has to be identical each time. Even just small variations make for something more, you know, engaging.
And, then, before I was even entirely aware, I had the lyrics to an actual song in front of me. A song that portrays a sort of godlike entity as a bit of a dick that just likes messing with people for amusement.
I went through an entire day's worth of song credits (or ten iterations) trying out different things. I had originally thought about a synth-driven song much like the one above, and while it wasn't bad it wasn't... right. So after some tweaks, I dropped that idea and decided to go full symphonic. Which, actually, makes sense given as the depiction in the song is almost steampunk with the knobs and dials.
But just symphonic wasn't quite enough. I needed to dial up the drama. So a few more tweaks to the style instructions and this song emerged.
And, I'll tell you, it's a pretty bizarre feeling hearing your own words being sung. Even more bizarre is that while the verses are quite different to how I imagined, the chorus is almost bang on what I was (badly) singing to myself to get a feel of what words to use. And the bridge? Perfect. Especially the idea of stretching out that final word just to make it hit harder.
It was also a very specific decision for this to be sung by a female voice. Not just because the majority of my creations are female (since it's the voice type that suits a lot of the stuff I listen to), but also to troll everybody who thinks that a "god" should be male - just think of Alanis Morissette, for instance. ☺
Here now, here, enjoy the first song that I wrote all of the words for. ☺
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