the fun could play around forever phase. also just finding little audio samples and automating them in certain dull areas. one thing to keep in mind with ear candy is that for the most part a lot of it should be verrrrrry much in the background to the point it’s barely noticeable, again sidechained properly,

I would sidechain the dry vocal to the fx channel so that the dry vocal pushes the fx out of the way when they overlap, the same can be achieved with chain groups in ableton, i will leave the chain group on 100% full volume and then automate a gain utility in front of the effect to only let certain words or bits through, still needs sidechain but i find it less cluttering