Kinda gross how the lyrics are clearly based on “Allah, Syria, Bashar” but the melody is completely different. Like I’m not strictly opposed to “AI” novelty songs, but in this case it’s like the lyrics were clearly written with a specific melody in mind, and it just takes away from the parody for the song to use a different melody. There are instrumentals of “Allah, Syria, Bashar” out there, it wouldn’t have been hard to use the same melody.
Whats even the point of this if it uses a different melody? Like the whole point of a parody song is that it has the same tune but an unexpected set of lyrics, this is just lame.
It certainly sounds like “AI” to me, mostly based on intuition. The biggest giveaway is the slight “fuzziness” to the vocals, but there are also some other things that stand out to me:
“Zohran” is clearly meant to rhyme with “song”, “strong”, “wrong”, and “long”, but doesn’t. This is either a completely baffling creative decision… or the computer doesn’t know how to say “Zohran” and doesn’t know how rhymes work.
“The New Yorkers say so strong” — probably a typo of “stay so strong” in the prompt that the generative software took at face value despite it making no sense in context.
The fact that the song doesn’t use the same melody as what it’s clearly supposed to be a parody of. This is either another completely baffling creative decision… or more likely the creator just put their lyrics as a prompt in some “AI” music generation tool.
The length of the song. On its own it might not mean much, but my impression is that (gratis) “AI” music generation tools often have a limit of roughly 1 minute for their songs so that their servers don’t get overloaded or whatever… But then again, other songs on this same channel can be over 3 minutes long.
The instruments. They have the vibe of a pretty generic Video Game Sand Level to me, probably because it’s an amalgamation of whatever “Middle Eastern” songs are in the software’s data set.
The inconsistent rhoticity. Human beings faking an accent can be inconsistent about it as well, but alongside the other evidence I think it points to machine generation.
The uploader wrote in the description, “All lyrics were written by me.” — implying that the music and vocals were created by someone or something else, uncredited.
Kinda gross how the lyrics are clearly based on “Allah, Syria, Bashar” but the melody is completely different. Like I’m not strictly opposed to “AI” novelty songs, but in this case it’s like the lyrics were clearly written with a specific melody in mind, and it just takes away from the parody for the song to use a different melody. There are instrumentals of “Allah, Syria, Bashar” out there, it wouldn’t have been hard to use the same melody.
Whats even the point of this if it uses a different melody? Like the whole point of a parody song is that it has the same tune but an unexpected set of lyrics, this is just lame.
In all honesty, I was also bamboozled when I first heard it, but ultimately thought it was funny to post.
Is it really AI? If so, I’m ashamed that I didn’t notice.
It certainly sounds like “AI” to me, mostly based on intuition. The biggest giveaway is the slight “fuzziness” to the vocals, but there are also some other things that stand out to me: