“Can I Have It Back, Please?” AI Generated Music & Video
I'm obsessed with this song. I can't stop listening to it. Listening to it so many times and it's still an unbelievable feeling.
I'm having fun experimenting with AI tools to create songs from my words and poems. Hope you enjoy it! This one means a lot to me, personally. WATCH ON YOUTUBE
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My complete artistic process is here; how I captured a moment of inspiration and was able to produce a deeply personal work that I love in a short amount of time. I include here my lyric writing process, how I used Suno AI to create the song, and Pika Labs to generate the moving imagery.
This whole thing was so emotional. It was a hard moment that I took action on and decided to pause for and record. This is how I took a vulnerable moment to a final piece titled, "Can I Have It Back, Please."
The whole process started with me getting inspired by something I'd seen and it taking me to an emotional place. In this emotional moment, I started to get kind of sad thinking about things in past relationships and how that's been affecting me. I started talking to the people I was thinking about out loud and it made me pause. It was then that I decided that I should record myself and what I'm saying so I can make that into a poem.
The Voice Recorder app in my iPhone is a great way to capture thoughts and ideas for artwork.
I opened up the voice recorder on my phone and I started recording myself saying these things, having this one-sided conversation. The recording of myself was about seven minutes. I talked til there was nothing left to be said.
I transferred the recording to my laptop and brought it into Adobe Premiere to transcribe the words for me and exported as a .txt file. I took that .txt file into Gemini Advanced, which happens to be the model I'm using at the moment, no particular reason other than that. I prompted it to strip down the transcript, remove the timestamps and any of the unnecessary notations in it. Now I had the core words that I had spoken.
I personally use Adobe Premiere to transcribe my audio recordings.
The next thing I did was a quick edit and turned it into a poem format. It was around here where I decided I wanted to make it into a song using AI. Gemini and I worked together a little bit to format my words more optimally for song lyrics. I brought my first draft of the lyrics into Suno, I've been using Suno a lot lately.
I talked to Gemini some more. We chatted about some of the musicians and artists that I particularly enjoy the sound of and that I felt would fit with this song. From that conversation, I got some description words that I could use for my prompt in Suno.
Gemini Advanced is a great AI tool for processing large text files and long transcripts.
Getting the prompt in Suno right, this took a little bit of tinkering, going back and forth. A lot of the songwriting process, I've found, happens while generating in Suno. I tend to play with the lyrics quite a bit in there. And there was a lot of iterations, a lot of trial and error.
I did notice that every generation with Suno 3.5, as I was thumbs-upping, thumbs-downing things, I found that the song was improving with almost every generation. It was getting closer to what I imagined. And then at some point with the prompt, I had tweaked it just so. I got to a beautiful song that I was actually singing along to unknowingly. At that point I thought, “oh, okay, I’m getting to the right place here.”
Suno allows for many custom controls to create original songs with your lyrics and audio files.
Now that song, though it was good, it wasn't quite right.
I had another version which had the most beautiful instrumentation and the feel of the musicality was exactly what I was looking for. So with this song, I downloaded the Stem file from Suno. With that, I had the isolated instrumentals. I clipped, using Premiere, a 30-second soundbite and uploaded that back into Suno 3.5. With my new, polished lyrics and refined prompt, I was able to create magical results. I did this twice. I realized the second time I hit Create, it gave me something even better.
At that moment, I decided I needed to stop because this version was, by far, the best version I'd ever heard. It was so close to what I was envisioning, what I was hearing in my head, and what I was thinking... but it was better. It was better than that. I was scared to push it any further. I had to stop there.
With the song complete, I downloaded it and brought that into Adobe Premiere. I wanted visuals but have exhausted all my AI video trials, except for Pika Labs. I had a few credits there to create some moving images. I experimented with a style that I liked for the song and realized quickly that I didn't have many generations available. I was able to make a few.
Pika Labs allows for creative moving imagery.
My next decision was to make this a vertical format music video for phones. Utilizing the few moving images I had from Pika, I applied effects and timing and colors and crops and tweaks to get to the mood that I was looking for. With that, I was able to export the song and share it here today with you.
The lyrics are open to interpretation but they're written by me in a moment with lots of meaning. I know exactly what they mean to me, and it's just so powerful. It's an incredible feeling.
I can’t stop listening to this song.
I hope you like it or this inspires you to create your own.
I'm obsessed with this song.
— cate bligh (@catebligh) August 3, 2024
I can't stop listening to it.
Listening to it so many times and it's still an unbelievable feeling.
🧵 My process is here. How I captured a moment of inspiration and was able to produce a deeply personal work that I love in a short amount of time.… pic.twitter.com/WAorAZNh8Y
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