An AI has written and animated a song and it's terrible

Twitchy.com ^ | 11/24/2023 | Coucy

[NetAddicted]

I looked and didn't find this posted yet. I can't hear the song lyrics clearly, so I can't judge.

[dfwgator]

Sounds better than any Taylor Swift song.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I watched a show called Joe Picket for 2 seasons. Season 1 was pretty darned good with a great plot. Season 2 was just plain all over the place and disjointed. I figured season 2 was written by AI or a retard.

[dynachrome]

direct link

https://twitter.com/AnnaIndianaAI/status/1728089499429642432

[NetAddicted]

I posted wrong url for article. Here is the correct one. I’d post link to song, but it is an X address, too long, and messes up formatting:
https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/11/24/ai-song-n2390134

[RayChuang88]

It’s not perfect, but within the next 10 years, it will be. And that scares the entertainment companies and all the entertainment craft unions to no end.

[NetAddicted]

I posted wrong url for article. Here is the correct one:
https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/11/24/ai-song-n2390134

[Bob434]

I had it try to write a story- the story was awful. No life in the scenes, just rote descriptions and scenes.

[whitney69]

Music is not logical, it is for emotional presentation.

There are two sides of existence. Even the human brain has those two sides. The so called left side is generally responsible for logic and language, while the right is responsible for creativity and intuition.

AI is not able to invent illogical products. They only deal with fact based upon logic. Can they do math or design a structure from their memories...of course already using esablished facts. But creativity without substance is beyond their capacity. If science can ever produce a two sided AI they have basically invented a working brain and not a computer as it will be able to think beyond existence.

wy69

[alexander_busek]

I had it try to write a story- the story was awful. No life in the scenes, just rote descriptions and scenes.

So, good enough for your typical Netflix series?

Regards,

[Bob434]

Lol probsbly- maybe I should hawk it to Netflix 😆

[chajin]

UGH!

Usual four chord progression, dull melody, dystopian lyrics. Anna needs a new career.

[Bob434]

Yeah, but couldn’t, or shouldn’t ai be able to write a song in the style of say a famous singer? With art ai, you can input something like “a watercolor scene of a boat on water in the style of JW Turner” (or degas, or whoever you like) and get some fairly good results. I’ve done a bunch of ones in the trippy style of Marc Chagall that look pretty decent and have that chagall feel to them-

Maybe it’s different with music though

[dfwgator]

Or do a new song that sounds like The Beatles.

[arthurus]

The animation doesn’t seem to extend below the neck.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Bob Dylan could pack so much content into sometimes illogical lyrics.

Poetry speaks more than prose.

[rightwingcrazy]

Sounds like most of the schlock that I hear on the radio these days, which I quickly turn off. The AI probably did some sort of amalgam or average of that sort of stuff, and came up with this.

[throwthebumsout]

It’s not perfect, but within the next 10 years, it will be. And that scares the entertainment companies and all the entertainment craft unions to no end.

My thoughts exactly, though I think it won't take 10 years before "entertainers" start feeling the pressure to learn to code.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Funny.

“A friend of mine called Steve Goodman wrote the perfect country and western song.” a few years back ...

“Goodman and Prine originally composed the song as a pastiche and style parody of “every country song” they had ever heard. In live performances, Goodman would often adopt a parody of Hank Williams Sr.’s performance style, with a large cowboy hat. Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride and Merle Haggard (as well as his song “The Fightin’ Side of Me”) are mentioned in the lyrics; Coe also uses loose impersonations of each artist in doing so, and also makes reference to Faron Young's “Hello Walls” in the background vocals, noting that “you don't have to call me” any of those names anymore. In the third verse, Coe notes “the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe is when Jesus has his final Judgment Day.”

In a spoken epilogue preceding the song's iconic closing verse, Coe relates a correspondence he had with Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the “perfect country and western song.” Coe wrote back stating that no song could fit that description without mentioning a laundry list of clichés from the genre: “Mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk”. Goodman's equally facetious response was an additional verse that incorporated all five of Coe’s requirements, and upon receiving it, Coe acknowledged that the finished product was indeed the “perfect country and western song” and included the last verse on the record:

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train

Goodman, in his versions, commented that there were some other ideas he missed, including farms, Dallas, divorce, dead dogs like Old Shep, and Christmas. He also mentioned, in various performances, Freddy Fender, Charlie Rich and Charlie the Tuna instead of Jennings, and his name on the sign was a neon sign hanging over “the bar I used to own,” with the verse likewise restructured to fit without Coe’s name.

Coe’s recording of “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” is accompanied mainly by resonator guitar, pedal steel guitar, electric guitar and bass guitar.”

But “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Never_Even_Called_Me_by_My_Name “

[Larry Lucido]

It’s better than any techno song.