| ▲ | maerF0x0 8 hours ago |
| Unsure if it's just the way they prompted it / coded it, but the output is far too much a literal direct copy of the lyrics. The best music videos have a story arc on the theme of but often not litearlly the lyrics, and start with obscurity and reveal something (following all the literary/story mechanisms) Consider Amber Run - Found lyrics versus the video, and the story arc of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6V_a1-EUA |
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| ▲ | anonova 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Literal music videos are still fun and a valid creative direction, e.g., Vance Joy's "Riptide": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_1HMAGb4k |
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| ▲ | Waterluvian 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The thing about art is that literally everything is a "valid creative direction." But that doesnt make everything immune from derision. | | |
| ▲ | NuclearPM 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don’t understand what your point is. | | |
| ▲ | RIMR 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The point is that, at least presently, an algorithm lacks the creativity to meaningfully stimulate an intellectual person, and whatever excuse you give for the decisions that algorithm makes, you should never expect a human being to be more impressed with the algorithm than they are with their human peers. |
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| ▲ | bee_rider 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That’s neat. It especially works because the words are a little bit nonsensical, so interpreting them literally becomes unexpected. | |
| ▲ | wzdd an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Come on, that video is on another level. "All my friends are turning green" (shot of $1 bills), "she's been living on the highest shelf" (woman standing on Juliet balcony), "they come unstuck" (someone pulling twin pole popsicle apart) For contrast these have "ice cold" (shot of ice cubes), "got chucks on" (shot of shoes), "livin' it up in the city" (shot of city). | | | |
| ▲ | therein 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Coincidence that both songs reference Michelle Pfeiffer or was that free connotation at work? | | | |
| ▲ | 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | Forgeties79 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That’s not really the same thing. |
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| ▲ | dataviz1000 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In an interview, an adult actress was asked about the things she says during scenes. She said she describes what is happening literally at any moment. This is what LLM models do. |
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| ▲ | BLKNSLVR 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That was sort of like what The Mandalorian dialogue devolved into, with some explaining what's happening right now, and then some explaining what they're about to do. Once you notice this, it's impossible to not notice it. |
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| ▲ | postsantum 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > The best music videos have a story arc on the theme of but often not litearlly the lyrics If the music is crazy popular, you can still do it. See Land Down Under |
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| ▲ | nsxwolf 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Weird Al videos are often totally literal and extremely fun as a result. https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?is=tU_8p-hDZv9gjAJ6 |
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| ▲ | walrus01 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wonder what would happen if you gave the AI video generation tools a widely ranging prompt to generate a video from Weird Al's "Amish Paradise", and then compared it to the actual video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg | |
| ▲ | maerF0x0 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I definitely read that as weird ai and was confused when I saw a normal, but dope, video | |
| ▲ | krapp 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wierd Al videos are a parody of an existing property. "White and Nerdy" is a parody of "Riding Dirty" by Chamillionaire, but the lyrics are about nerd stereotypes (as an intentional contrast with black culture as presented in the original,) and a great deal of creative effort is put into making those lyrics humorous while also fitting to the original theme. Nothing about Wierd Al's videos are "totally literal," certainly not in the sense of these AI videos, which are "literal" in the sense of "literally showing what the lyrics are describing." |
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| ▲ | deadbabe 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sometimes you can fix this by swapping one tracks music video with another, and letting the syncopation happen naturally. |
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| ▲ | hn_throwaway_99 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The entire thing was cringeworthy to the core. I kind of enjoyed it though because it perfectly epitomized "AI slop" in the first 30 seconds so wonderfully. "Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold" - show a blonde woman in a gold sequined top! "Livin' it up in the city" - show a shot of a big city! If anything, the absurd literalism of the video contrasted so perfectly with the (IMO) brilliant clever originality of the lyrics. E.g. "Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold" is actually a not-so-subtle reference to cocaine. Imagine if the lyrics were as stupidly unoriginal as the video ("Now we're all snorting cocaine!!"). |
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| ▲ | nalekberov 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Fun fact (if you care): Back in the '90s, pretty much every music video produced in Azerbaijan literally matched the lyrics. |
