When I was in high school, I had a friend who was HORRIFIED when I listened to cheerful Beach Boys music while playing Diablo. I loved the contrast.
Well, I fell down a rabbit hole this week fusing those concepts as thoroughly as possible…
So, uh, Doo-Wop Demon Hunter and Doo-Wop Warlock will be coming soon.
It was a fascinating challenge getting the sound I was going for combined with lyrics about battling skeletons in a broken cathedral and facing demons in hell. See, the lyrics are basically part of the prompt with Suno…
So a song about a spaceship or a robot that acts like a car song? Easy to get that sunny, oldies, California sound.
But if the lyrics get too creepy, you need to find ways to trick Suno into believing you really do want the vocalist and instrumentation to sound cheerful.
Anyway, it’s been a lot of fun making Doo-Wop Demon Hunter and Doo-Wop Warlock, and I’m definitely tempted to expand out to doing Druid, Necromancer, Paladin and so on albums. The trick is just finding the story in each of them, which was easy for the first two.
The first Diablo has such an iconic story, and it’s so simple that it’s practically begging to be riffed off of and fleshed out. And as for warlocks — that’s my favorite class in World of Warcraft, and I have more than enough feelings about my summoned demons to tell a story.
I can make musicals now. I can take an idea and convert it into a musical concept album in a matter of days with the help of Claude and Suno.
This fact is so unfathomably impossible to my entire experience of this world that my brain keeps marveling at it like a sunspot…
For decades, I’ve desperately, intensely, hopelessly wished for all kinds of musicals that I couldn’t convince the world to make, and now I can just summon musicals into existence with the power of my mind, a couple AIs, and a few days?
That just doesn’t make sense.
I feel like when you stare at the sky so long your eyes use up the chemicals for seeing blue; so blue flips orange.
I am so constantly, utterly astounded by AI letting me write musicals that my brain runs out of the feeling and flips around, disbelieving it’s really happened.
It’s incredibly deflating to create something that feels like the best work of your life… and know that most of the people you spent your life respecting would not only think you haven’t done anything at all but that it was outright evil of you to spend your time that way.
And I mean, I want to be clear: I say this with absolutely no intention of stopping using AI to create. I already made my choice; the haters already made their position clear. It didn’t stop me, and it never will. But it’s still depressing.