the song starts as a ballad before the beat drops. # go on. # listen to your body choir. i called john and max from the team to hear more about how they created their half ballad half banger. we kind of did that on purpose because it was going to be a little bit of a popularity contest. you know, it was going to be voted on by an audience and ajury, and i knew it could not be music by robots for robots. i think that can really quickly devolve into just five minutes of straight screaming white noise, you know, in yourears. so at some point, it has to be palatable for humans. in our case, one of the things we did was we wanted to create a sort of palette of textures that wouldn t sound like anything we d heard before. those made up of a lot of those puzzle pieces that i gave back to max and it was sort of this this challenge of like 0k.
just completing them. and i wanted to write a dance track. i don t know why, ijust got into my head that eurovision requires a dance track. and so, i put in the following prompt: and i thought it was gonna come up with a kind of, like, you know, proper dance type thing. and it returned walking like a zombie in the dark as a completion and i thought hmm! that s really strange and unearthly and odd! once you had your lyrics, how did you turn that into a song? how did you decide whether it was gonna be a ballad or a banger? it felt naturally that it was falling into a ballad. a few years ago, i was commissioned to analyse the eurovision song contest, so i had a lot of data about what s successful in eurovision. if you ve got a song that s too happy in a major key, it s not gonna do that well at eurovision. you want something
we used gpt 3. it s incredibly good at generating text. you can do anything from writing a question and it giving you an answer to writing a few sentences and it just completing them. and i wanted to write a dance track. i don t know why, ijust got into my head that eurovision requires a dance track. and so, i put in the following prompt: and i thought it was gonna come up with a kind of, like, you know, proper dance type thing. and it returned walking like a zombie in the dark as a completion and i thought hmm! that s really strange and unearthly and odd! once you had your lyrics, how did you turn that into a song? how did you decide whether it was gonna be a ballad or a banger? it felt naturally that it was falling into a ballad. a few years ago, i was commissioned to analyse the eurovision song contest, so i had a lot of data about what s successful
but when i m working with other people, i normally feel inspired by their lyrics and so with this, it felt very natural to get the al to generate some lyrics for me, which is what we did. we used gpt 3. it s incredibly good at generating text. you can do anything from writing a question and it giving you an answer to writing a few sentences and it just completing them. and i wanted to write a dance track. i don t know why, ijust got into my head that eurovision requires a dance track. and so, i put in the following prompt: and i thought it was gonna come up with a kind of, like, you know, proper dance type thing. and it returned walking like a zombie in the dark as a completion and i thought hmm! that s really strange and unearthly and odd! once you had your lyrics, how did you turn that into a song? how did you decide whether it was gonna be a ballad or a banger? it felt naturally that it was