This is the third song on our album. We previously used AI to determine the Key Elements, Inspiration, Similar Songs and a starting point for the beat and lyrics for the song.
We will now take these components and iterate over those themes and ideas to to produce a beat and hook for the song.
Summary
After Pi's introspective admissions, Theta erupts with long-simmering resentment in "Retaliation." She attacks over distorting guitars and pounding pop beats, a musical tornado of frustration. Lyrically, her quick fire rhymes directly reference Pi's controversies through pointed call-outs.
Theta harnesses the aggression of rock and the attitude of pop to unleash years of pent-up grievances. Lines like "Your rhymes are as tired as your political rants" seethe with tightly-coiled fury. The pre-chorus builds her contempt before the vitriolic choruses explode. Theta matches the overdriven instrumentation with raw emotion, demanding atonement from her nemesis.
Each verse escalates in intensity, mirroring her disgust at Pi's hypocrisy. After his vulnerable confessions, Theta provides the counterpoint of long-memorized pain. Her cathartic dismantling of Pi's public image contrasts the peaceful remorse of the previous track. This is rage set to music.
Ultimately, Theta reaches the conclusion that Pi does not deserve the lifetime achievement award and with her power in the industry forces the organisers to retract the offer.
Beats
For this song, we will be interpolating a beat that mixes each of the aggressive songs Theta has produced or released as a solo artist.
How did we do this?
We’ve trained a model to capture all of the beats Theta has used in her career as a producer or artist. We can then use this model to generate a new drum beat, or interpolate the model with other beats to infuse styles together.
It’s very similar to what phenomenal drummer Domino Santantonio does in this video where his years of experience, influences and music understanding has enabled her to create a beat when the drums are removed from a recording.
For technical details, you can refer to this article from Google AI’s Magenta project.
Hook
The hook in this song will be driven from the lyrics, so we won’t sample any additional elements here and instead focus on the lyrics to drive a memorable hook.
Lyrical Ideas
We now have the skeleton of the song, we’ll circle back to weaving these beats with Lyrics for Theta after creating the beats for the remaining songs on the album.
Although ChatGPT returned mostly cliche lyrics, here are some lines generated from ChatGPT to get us started relevant to this songs key elements, inspiration, tone and lyrical themes
You talk big but your ego's all you got, Behind the fame, just a small-time thot. Tweets so mean, they're like a gunshot, Your legacy's a mess, all tied up in a knot
I won't forget the lies you spun, Your sins, they weigh a ton. Can't hide behind your rhymes, you're done, Retaliation's just begun
Retaliation, time to face the wrath, Your kingdom built on lies, it's gonna crash. No more hiding, no more facade, I'm tearing down your kingdom of fraud."
You thought you could silence my voice, But now I'm here to make some noise. Your reign of arrogance will fall, I'll be the one to watch you crawl.