I requested ChatGPT to jot down a Eurovision music and it's higher than the winner of this yr's contest

• The 2023 Eurovision Tune Contest was held on Saturday in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
• Sweden’s Loreen gained this yr’s contest together with her music “Tattoo.” 
• I requested ChatGPT to jot down a Eurovision music and I assumed it was higher.

Like the UK’s Mae Muller at this yr’s Eurovision, I wrote a music.

OK, actually, ChatGPT wrote it.

However like Muller’s entry on the 2023 Eurovision Tune Contest, it was — in my utterly unbiased opinion as somebody who grew up in Britain — fairly good. And it additionally acquired only a handful of votes, albeit from pals who I bribed with Pimm’s cups and scones to hitch my watch get together for the event.

In case you’re studying this and considering, “Is not Eurovision a Will Ferrell film?” — you might be proper, and you might be fallacious. There’s the laugh-out-loud 2020 film, and there is additionally the worldwide singing contest it is primarily based on: a high-camp, musical extravaganza the place artists representing European international locations (and extra lately, Australia) carry out an unique music, sometimes in wild outfits and glitter with a fleet of backup dancers and pyrotechnics.

Consider Eurovision as Europe’s megawatt model of “American Idol,” however, as an alternative of a money prize, the winner will get a microphone-shaped trophy and probably their large break; it is the place the careers of ABBA, Celine Dion, and Måneskin had been born. The nation the profitable act represents additionally will get to host the following yr’s contest, so it is actually a musical tourism marketing campaign. The notes are excessive and the stakes are larger.

However watching this yr’s contest on Saturday, held in Liverpool, England, I used to be largely underwhelmed.

Although I preferred just a few of the performances, there was no clear winner for me — no “Zitti E Buoni” or “My Quantity One” — and I used to be curious what it takes to jot down Eurovision music. So I requested ChatGPT to present it a strive. (OK, I requested my husband to ask ChatGPT; I used to be too busy watching the present.)

The outcome arguably has all the weather of a traditional Eurovision music, and actually, I favor it to the profitable entry from Sweden’s Loreen, who picked up the microphone trophy for the second time after performing “Tattoo.” (No shade on Loreen, but it surely wasn’t for me.)

Listed below are the lyrics:

My preliminary thought was, “Wow, this is not half unhealthy.”

The lyrics are upbeat, inspiring, and point out music, rhythm, love, a drum, the phrases “roar” and “fireplace” — all elements of a Eurovision hit. “Fireplace” would lend itself fantastically to pyrotechnics. “Roar” might inform the costumes (catsuits with a lion vibe, clearly). And a choreographer might actually go to city with these lyrics.

The consensus amongst my pals was that it was a formidable effort, and higher than some lyrics we would heard through the competitors with the exception, maybe, of Austrian duo Teya & Salena’s “Who the Hell is Edgar?” — a music devoted to Edgar Allen Poe for no obvious cause.

Later, after my pals left, my husband and I returned to the AI bot to ask for a music title. (We take Eurovision severely in my home.)

This time, I used to be much less impressed: “Based mostly on the lyrics, an acceptable title for the sing could possibly be, ‘Rhythm of the Evening.'” It felt too apparent, and there are different songs with the identical title.

Giving it the good thing about the doubt, we then requested ChatGPT for some inventive route.

It got here up with some fairly strong stage-design concepts: a light-up dance ground, multi-level stage, LED display backdrop, fireworks and pyrotechnics, and neon lights and laser beams. Individually, all of them make sense, however why select one when you might do all of them? In spite of everything, extra is extra in relation to Eurovision.

Then, we requested about costumes. For no matter cause, my husband thought a four-person band could be the very best car for the music, so we went with that.

As soon as once more, ChatGPT spat out predictable outcomes: colourful outfits (duh), coordinated appears to be like (duh once more), “shimmer and shine” to “add to the thrill of the efficiency” (my private favourite), futuristic type (to match the laser beams), and, naturally, “snug and versatile,” so you possibly can dance. With all this in thoughts, I stand by my catsuit thought.

One thing comparable labored for this yr’s winner, Loreen, who went for a feline look full with mile-long claws. 

As a last step, my husband requested for a melody. This half acquired a bit too technical for me, as somebody who give up piano classes too quickly, however my husband would possibly try it on his guitar.

Keep tuned to see if we make it to Eurovision 2024.