The A.I. Dilemma

Years ago, I wrote a book called "Roses & Daisies". It tells the story of a singer/songwriter who suffers a tragedy, and this responsible, reliable woman suddenly decides to get in her car and drive across Canada. She takes nothing with her other than her guitar and a credit card. This causes concern and perplexity for her husband and other family members. It's told through the eyes of seven people, all in first person. Anyway, I'm in the process of re-editing, putting on a new cover, and publishing it in paperback and hardcover. This book was originally traditionally published in paperback, but due to stupid politics, it ended up not being supported by the company that published it. So I got the rights back and e-published it. I wrote many song lyrics for this book. Snippets of them are in the book as well as some with full lyrics. They help move the story along, develop character, or tell backstory.

I've been playing with A.I. music. I know. I know. A.I. bad. A.I. evil. Especially for writers. There are ads out there where people make a suggestion to A.I., and it writes out an entire book for them, which I find despicable.

However, after years and years of not being able to connect with a musician who is willing to write music for my lyrics (they all want to write their own lyrics, and I don't blame them), I caved and plugged my lyrics into the program to hear what would happen. And I liked it. A.I. did not change my lyrics at all. I was able to choose the mood, the style, and whether I wanted a male or female singer. Plus, there are all kinds of buttons and stuff to play around with. I didn't like every song, but I can try again.

So now I'm thinking of putting together an album of this music for promotional purposes. I'm not thinking of selling the album. I can stick it up on Youtube along with some video. I like to support artists. But I can't afford to pay anyone anything, never mind a whole army to create and produce music and videos. I've created the source material. It's not like I'm just making a suggestion and voila, it's all done with no effort on my part. And honestly, the music industry itself has been using all kinds of tricks, such as dubbing in other voices for artists. In fact, the whole entertainment industry uses computers for almost everything now. Anyway - here's a song that I wrote the lyrics for. It really captures the mood I wanted to convey for my character of Sharon.

Planting Seeds (Sharon's Song)
https://suno.com/s/IaCvYWFqbYeNONdu