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We're back with another Music Monday and this time we're doing something a bit different... rather than dropping existing songs, I'd like for y'all to generate one using Suno AI! Quick note: this article is not sponsored by Suno. 😅 In any case, a friend introduced me to what he called "the Midjourney of music" last week and ever since I've been having too much fun with it. I've generated funk songs to cheer up my wife while she's at work, heartfelt hip hop tunes wishing my brother and sister-in-law a belated happy birthday, and invitations for my parents to see Dune II in Imax. Honestly, these are just a sample... like I said, too much fun! Now, I'd like to share the fun here in Music Monday and hear what y'all come up with. Please keep it clean, and to make it even more interesting, consider sharing your prompt too! As always, feel free to share music outside of the theme.
How we do
In this weekly series, folks can chime in and drop links to whatever it is they've been listening to recently + browse others' suggestions. You can follow the suggested genre if you'd like, but don't feel confined to it; you're free to suggest whatever you wanna. 🙌
If you're interested in having other discussions about music, consider following the aptly named #music discussions organization.
Let's get to generating! 🤖
Note: you likely cannot embed a Suno AI link using the following syntax {% embed https://... %}. But, just drop a link to your song!
Looking forward to listening to y'all's suggestions! 🎶
🚨p.s. Check out @rachelfazio's sister series to Music Monday, Podcast Palooza!🚨
Top comments (34)
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:
And the lyrics it spat out are cheesy but honestly not too bad, haha!
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.
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!
I want to create something like Faze-O "Riding High" or anything by Issac Hayes.
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.
Ideas to create an app to do that. Only issue is licensing.
Oh woah 🤯
Haha! Perfect emoji for this one. It is mind-blowing!
Annoyingly good. 😅
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. 🤣
I generated this music. 🥳
Prompt :
I like ambients songs, and why "on fine weather" ? I didn't want sad music 🤣
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...
Oooh me to. arg
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.
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.
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.
I've got some interesting AI generated music:
The Code Inside
app.suno.ai/song/e09dc2f2-b26a-4ef...
The Code In My Heart
app.suno.ai/song/e37bdbfc-905f-45e...
Code Warrior
app.suno.ai/song/945a6f80-b169-47a...
Not that creative, but to be fair, I didn't give it much to go on.
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!
Yep! My personal favorite is the first one. The others are fun, too, though!
I've been waiting for this
Behold
Tubby Mc Fluff, the fattest cat in the UK
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.
Damn I'm impressed, with just small sentence it generated quite a good rap
Prompt
Created two versions
I loved the 2nd one.
Lyrics
Haha, awwww yeaaa! This is a heavy hitter. Good stuff, Sukhpinder! 🙌
Thanks @michaeltharrington
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...
From verse 2:
I mean damn. It killed that prompt, haha!
Good one, Bruno!
Suno is killer!
Saltwater Tides
Prompt
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.
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...
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!
Yeah! I wanted it to catch the dystopian vibe!
Suno is awesome! I've generated a lot of songs with it and might share some later.
Please do, Best! I'm ready for it, haha. 😀
I don't have very many non-personal ones to share… I'll see if I can find some in a bit.