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by legitster 996 days ago
I agree. The "x words over y music" can be fun, but isn't really impressive as a true genre parody.

The one that always comes to mind for me is this video of an Eminem interview done from scratch as a Talking Heads song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl3N9nesRg

This is potentially something that generative AI could be good at doing (at least recreating vocals), but this parody of the Talking Heads required a lot of very clever insight into what made a good Talking Heads song and returned a convincing and novel melody. And I think we are still a ways off.

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Yeah, Nick Lutsko is super super funny and a very talented musician. That’s hard to replicate.
More evidence that AI is an artistic tool of new media and not a replacement of the old.