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Music Monday — What are you listening to? (Suno.AI Edition 🤖)

Michael Tharrington on March 25, 2024

cover image source: Giphy We're back with another Music Monday and this time we're doing something a bit different... rather than dropping existin...

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Michael Tharrington • Mar 25 • Edited

Here's a song that I generated about DEV called "Dev Party All Night"... funny, but the vibe of it kinda reminds me of "Lowrider" by War.

Here's the prompt I used to generate "Dev Party All Night" btw:

A funky disco punk song about software developers from around the world coming together in the Dev Community to share ideas, write code, make friends, and have a good time.

And the lyrics it spat out are cheesy but honestly not too bad, haha!

[Verse]
From Silicon Valley to Tokyo
We're the devs that love to code (code)
Breaking barriers, pushing boundaries
The Dev Community, we're a family (ooh yeah)

[Verse 2]
We're rockin' lines of code, we're breakin' beats
Sharing knowledge, creating feats (feats)
From Java to Python, C++ to Ruby
Together we're unstoppable, getting groovy (groovy, baby)

[Chorus]
Dev party all night (all night)
Coding and dancing under neon lights (neon lights)
We're dev kings and queens, we're dev dynamite
In the Dev Community, we're havin' a good time (good time)

Stefan Moore • Mar 25

I am very intrigued about the things I can create with this. To be continued...

@michaeltharrington the track you created is upbeat and makes me wanna chair dance. Will check out the others you created for ideas.

Michael Tharrington • Mar 25

Haha, it is pretty damn catchy, isn't it!? 😀

I haven't gotten this excited about AI in a while... I admit that I haven't taken this app all that seriously, but then again I don't take life too seriously, haha. I love how quick and easy it is to create a novelty song in the moment for whatever is going on. I mean, I enjoy writing songs and I suppose I could be scared that this is gonna replace human musicians, but I'm really not. I think this can exist in parallel.

I am kinda interested in what all this stuff can do though! I'm sure there are folks out there pushing the creative musical boundaries of this and other AI... Meanwhile, I'm just making silly jingles for my loved ones, haha!

Stefan Moore • Mar 25

I want to create something like Faze-O "Riding High" or anything by Issac Hayes.

Michael Tharrington • Mar 25

Haha, that would be dope!

So, that is the one downside (or potentially upside depending upon depending upon which way you look at it, haha 🙃 ) to Suno at least. They won't let you use an artist's name or existing song in your prompt. I get it, but dammit, I really wanna hear Michael Jackson sing The Beatles... haha, jk, don't need AI for that one.

Stefan Moore • Mar 25

Ideas to create an app to do that. Only issue is licensing.

Thomas Bnt • Mar 25

Oh woah 🤯

Michael Tharrington • Mar 25

Haha! Perfect emoji for this one. It is mind-blowing!

Mr. Linxed • Mar 25

Annoyingly good. 😅

Michael Tharrington • Mar 25 • Edited

Haha, right?! It is absolutely ridiculous.

And I'm someone who kinda cares about music, but like if I was just a normal listener, this could probably totally feed whatever musical craving I have, haha. Kinda scary when you think about the implications, but simultaneously absurd to be able to generate reggae songs about my cat Baby Kitty battling giants, dragons, and ghosts before chilling out and laying in my wife Katelyn's lap. 🤣

Thomas Bnt • Mar 25

I generated this music. 🥳

Prompt :

ambient style with rhythm, on fine weather

I like ambients songs, and why "on fine weather" ? I didn't want sad music 🤣

Michael Tharrington • Mar 25

Dangit! I can't get it to work right now for me. It pulls up that song, but times out when trying to play it...

Thomas Bnt • Mar 25

Oooh me to. arg

Dendi Handian • Mar 26

SunoAI seems interesting, I will do experiment on it later.
Today while I'm listening to my Tame Impala playlist, I was recommended this song after finishing the playlist. Turn out it was the stranger things cast, Joe Keery stage name, Djo. I find it totally fit with my tame impala playlist because it sounds so psychedelic.

Michael Tharrington • Mar 26

Hell yeah, Dendi!

Always delivering the goods. I had no idea that Joe Keery was a musician... that's dope!

On that note, you ever listen to Finn Wolfhard's group Calpurnia? Very pop punky.

Dendi Handian • Mar 27

I'm aware he formed a band since the new A-ha/Weezer Take On Me music video, but not hooked yet. Maybe I will start with this, thank for sharing Michael.

Best Codes • Mar 25 • Edited

I've got some interesting AI generated music:

Not that creative, but to be fair, I didn't give it much to go on.

Michael Tharrington • Mar 26 • Edited

Haha! These are pretty fun.

Something about "The Code In My Heart" is just great... I think it's because of the genre, I would rarely pair programming with country, haha, and I think that's part of why it's surprising and fun!

I like how the singer sounds a bit auto-tuney, like it could be a country-singing robot. This robot sings about coding the same way a cowboy would sing about cowboy-ing, and that feels fitting. Coding would be natural for a robot, haha!

Best Codes • Mar 26

Yep! My personal favorite is the first one. The others are fun, too, though!

tq-bit • Mar 26

I've been waiting for this

Behold

Tubby Mc Fluff, the fattest cat in the UK

Michael Tharrington • Mar 26

Hahaha! Oh I wanna meet Tubby McFluff. Sounds like a great kitty!

Reminds me of this song about my cat Baby Kitty fighting mythical beasts and then going to sleep in my wife's lap.

Sukhpinder Singh • Mar 25 • Edited

Damn I'm impressed, with just small sentence it generated quite a good rap

Prompt

heavy drum hiphp beats and rap

Created two versions

I loved the 2nd one.

Lyrics

[Verse]
Boom, boom, hit it hard with the bass
Drums go wild, they set the pace (uh-huh)
Feel the rhythm, it's in your bones
Can't sit still, you gotta let it flow (ooh yeah)

[Verse 2]
Lyrical assault, it's time for the rap
Fast and furious, ain't no time to nap (nope)
Spitting rhymes that cut like a knife
Heavy beats, it's the rhythm of life (oh yeah)

[Chorus]
Turn it up, feel the heat, let the beat drop
Bounce to the rhythm, don't you ever stop
Heavy drum hits, it's a musical fire
Hiphop's the game and we're taking it higher (uh-huh)

Michael Tharrington • Mar 25

Haha, awwww yeaaa! This is a heavy hitter. Good stuff, Sukhpinder! 🙌

Sukhpinder Singh • Mar 25

Thanks @michaeltharrington

Bruno Santos • Mar 25

Generated a neo/dark/folk, good one, very atmospheric, since we're starting Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere I thought it could be a good theme for the lyrics

app.suno.ai/song/babd3c25-bdfc-4e4...

Michael Tharrington • Mar 25

From verse 2:

The sun's warmth fades, replaced by a chill
A somber beauty cloaks the land
Shadows lengthen, darkness descends
In this melancholic embrace, we stand

I mean damn. It killed that prompt, haha!

Good one, Bruno!

Travis • Mar 26

Suno is killer!

Saltwater Tides

Prompt

Make a song that has a beach punk / alternative rock sound. It should have a grunge-sounding singer with good drums. 140-160 BPM range.

Michael Tharrington • Mar 26

Oh yeah it is! 😎

So, I think they did a good job with your prompt, but they really struggle to create good grungy sounding singers. I ran into a similar problem when trying to generate bluesy, soulful vocal for a song. The vocalists just often come off sounding a bit too clean in my opinion! Hopefully with time, they'll have a bit more character.

Debajyati Dey • Mar 26

I made this months ago. It is legit and I listen this often. (AI theme song 🤖🎤)

Neon Skies.
app.suno.ai/song/e2f2c12c-5d01-45e...

Michael Tharrington • Mar 26

Oh wow, this is interesting! Oh and this was on v2, huh? Anyway, the vocal here sounds really post-punk and the beat has that industrial vibe going on. I like it!