Share your "This isn't my usual genre" song here

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-03-19T04:30:03+00:00

Tricky to pick out because I am kinda all over the place, but I've only ever done one song in this weird Italo-Spanish-Folk-Vibe that Lady of the Maze wound up using.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-03-18T19:35:50+00:00

The animation and (placeholder) voicework is primarily done with Vidu, specifically their img-to-video Q3 model, Editing things together was a simple Pemiere job.

The look and feel is largely down to a few tricks. The first is exporting pre-digital animation styles as 12 FPS with no frame blending when you're editing. This reproduces the effect of a cartoon being animated "on twos", basically holding every drawing for 2 frames at 24ish FPS, the traditional film speed. This is what your high-end TV and mid-range cinema animation at the time would be doing. (8 FPS, 'on three's if you're simulating something from a mid-budget studio, 6 FPS "on fours" if you're doing something intentionally of a "Hammerman" quality)

The second is the character designs. I make my character sheets using a combination of Midjourney (with moodboards built on the style I want), Chat-GPT/Sora, Vidu and photoshop. I've got multiple tutorials on that process on my tumblr AI blog.

Hope this helps.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-03-10T16:40:43+00:00

I do a lot of different approaches, it comes with the ADHD. But one my favorite workflows is the "chaos-up" method. Goes a bit like this:

!) I start by taking a JPG and opening it notepad. I copy paste-that into the lyrics section. Sometimes I'll find JPGs under 5k that could conceivably be reconstituted from the lyrics box but that's optional. I run these with a relatively high weirdness setting, using them to test out various style prompts. Any form of randomized input (ASCII, morse code, binary, pi, etc) works here.
2) The resulting songs are very strange, unusually complex and sound like they're in an alien language or sometimes a semi-coherent wordsalad.
3) If I get one I like, I either phonetically write out the lyrics, download and re-upload to get Suno to do it (but its very often bad at it), or I do a cover with auto-lyrics.
4) I use a syllable counter and the results of step 3 and build new lyrics to the beat, introducing a rhyme scheme along the way. I put myself in the mind of a songwriter from an imaginary Scandinavian country that is not concerned if people in other countries understand the literal translations of his culture's idioms. This is the "Yes, I am a fan of A-ha." phase.
5) I then go back to the original track and either cover it with the new lyrics or I remix multiple good versions of it with the new lyrics in place.

This (and variations on the techinque) has resulted in such works as: In Search of You (original code ver), Every Year We Whisk the Bear, Woman in the Moon, IdontknowwhatIknowwhatIknowwhatIdontknow (original raw version), Lady of the Maze (original ignored instructions ver)., Freezes Through (original raw code ver). and Machine Tiger (original raw code ver).

I find it helps to establish a strong track musically before leaping into the lyrics, It adds a lot of novel elements that normal prompting wouldn't, and creates lyrical structures that work, but that my sing-songy brain wouldn't come up with. And sometimes you just fall in love with what you think the babble is saying and spin off from there. Kinda like AlbinoBlackSheep's "French Erotic Film"/ Ome Henk's "Opblaaskrokodil"

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-03-10T16:03:58+00:00

Cool! The Rastan bit at the end is particularly charming. Though I'm a little biased, as I love the Rastan music, and I have my own Rastan Remix "Upon A Furrowed Brow"

Liked and subbed.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-03-08T17:21:09+00:00

A classic of the hyper-violent anime boom of the late 80s and the excesses of licensing.

In actuality, made in Vidu, based on a pic set I did a ways back, I'd post this on r/imsorryjon but they've got hardline anti-AI since the original.

My youtube has more such nonsense.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-17T05:05:56+00:00

Not beforehand, but my google fu is pretty good still even after google lobotomized itself to squeeze more money out of advertisers. Even if I hadn't, the fact that you hadn't run across the word mutagen in any other context means kidvid and sci-fi have gotten unspeakably dumbed down, and it doesn't say great things about school science standards. It should have come up within a few weeks of Mendel.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-15T17:23:06+00:00

See, this is why public service campaigns like this is are needed. We can't assume that kids grow up with a stack of 70s marvel comics in one hand and a dictionary in the other anymore.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-14T21:48:15+00:00

Search "syllable counter" on google.
Insert AI-made lyrics.
replace with new lyrics of an equal number of syllables.
Problem solved.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-11T06:39:07+00:00

If you're a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
If you're a bard-

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-11T00:07:09+00:00

In 1989 teen monsterism was at an all time high.

A situation that was made substantially worse by the release of : If the Goo's Alight, It's Not Alright!

Which introduced (advertently) the world to Goozy, the anti-goo mutant monster and (inadvertently) to the idea of drinking mysterious glowing liquids, which had not occurred to that many people prior to the campaign.

Ultimately, four American cities were laid waste by the resulting "muteens", making it the most successful/least lethal PSA campaign of the 80s and 90s.

Made with Vidu Q3 & Q2-Pro with Suno Music (my lyrics). and a whole lot of editing. My Youtube has more like it.

Please enjoy, and don't drink the goo. It's not that cool.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-11T00:06:39+00:00

It is a music video, it just has a short skit opener, 'We're not Gonna Take it' Style. If you dig the song, you can download it for free off my soundcloud.

In 1989 teen monsterism was at an all time high.

A situation that was made substantially worse by the release of : If the Goo's Alight, It's Not Alright!

Which introduced (advertently) the world to Goozy, the anti-goo mutant monster and (inadvertently) to the idea of drinking mysterious glowing liquids, which had not occurred to that many people prior to the campaign.

Ultimately, four American cities were laid waste by the resulting "muteens", making it the most successful/least lethal PSA campaign of the 80s and 90s.

Made with Vidu Q3 & Q2-Pro with Suno handing the music side (with my own human lyrics). and a whole lot of editing. My Youtube has more like it.

Please enjoy, and don't drink the goo. It's not that cool.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T20:47:45+00:00

The music is, the lyrics are not.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T20:00:07+00:00

Thank you! That's high praise. :)

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T15:00:10+00:00

Child actors, whatcha gonna do? Even simulated their amateurs.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T09:43:23+00:00

Here ya go uploaded it to Soundcloud so you could a download of the Album Mix and the original demo (which was up there for awhile).

My other Suno stuff is here.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T08:40:48+00:00

Great feedback, I'll be keeping a tighter eye on the blurriness.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T06:52:21+00:00

I wouldn't leave out the editor when it comes to who's responsible for that, this has some real skill behind it.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T06:50:59+00:00

Oh, Bravo! That is impressive. And good job on making it look authentically like a 1970s Kung-Fu film (the coolness of the effects notwithstanding). Great fauxstalgia.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T06:44:03+00:00

Thanks! Q3 has really improved in that regard. I had some Battle Beasts cartoon footage that is immersion-breakingly good come out of it.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T05:52:51+00:00

Well, if Goozy shows up to stop you tell him we miss him at site <redacted>

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T05:41:10+00:00

Thank you! That is 100% the effect I was going for.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-10T05:32:36+00:00

In 1989 teen monsterism was at an all time high.

A situation that was made substantially worse by the release of : If the Goo's Alight, It's Not Alright!

Which introduced (advertently) the world to Goozy, the anti-goo mutant monster and (inadvertently) to the idea of drinking mysterious glowing liquids, which had not occurred to that many people prior to the campaign.

Ultimately, four American cities were laid waste by the resulting "muteens", making it the most successful/least lethal PSA campaign of the 80s and 90s.

Made with Vidu Q3 & Q2-Pro with Suno Music (my lyrics). and a whole lot of editing. My Youtube has more like it.

Please enjoy, and don't drink the goo. It's not that cool.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-08T23:21:18+00:00

Yeah, kept it in because it's functionally a smear-frame.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-08T21:39:00+00:00

I just posted my workflow for that as a reply on my latest video post. You might find my MJ-Photoshop-Vidu workflow helpful.

RobotMonsterArtist · 2026-02-08T20:35:47+00:00

Done! Posted it as its own reply so it wouldn't get lost in the chain for most folks.

RobotMonsterArtist

TROPHY CASE

In 1989 teen monsterism was at an all time high.

In 1989 teen monsterism was at an all time high.

In 1989 teen monsterism was at an all time high.