i asked #AI to show me a rural midday scenery with the four Beatles, with long hair, riding on their bikes. for a first attempt not bad at all. ringo, followed by paul, john and george.

before that i had asked #midjourney AI to visualize john lennon on a bike in a messy abbey road studio. the bot delivered an amazingly complex, chaotic scene with someone (not john) on the drums and certainly no bicycle:

for these two images i asked AI (midjourney) to create two tables, one with communists, one with fascists. guess which is which:

i started this song with nonsense in mind. however, it turned out much “deeper”. the chorus is merely a wordplay, but in the context of the rest, it gains a bit of weight.

We put on a mask, hide our true selves / Let’s pretend everything is alright / Deep down we all struggle and fight / And hope to find some peace inside / So, let’s be real, let’s be raw / Embrace the flaws and all the scars / For we all are imperfect stars / That’s what makes us who we are / Nobody’s perfect, everybody’s fine / Everybody’s perfect, nobody is fine / Everybody’s perfect, everybody’s fine / Let’s put on our masks / Hide our true selves / And pretend everything is alright / In this world of black and blue / We often feel so lost and confused / Our struggles pile up / Leave us defeated and used/ Nobody’s perfect, everybody’s fine / Everybody’s perfect, nobody is fine / Everybody’s perfect, everybody’s fine

the chorus appears twice, and in both instances my daughter sings the second half. there are 5 audio tracks in this song, due to the use of vocal harmonies. for example, i doubled parts of my voice in the verses using a slight formant change. the snappy bass and the main pad come from izotope iris 2, the drums from toontrack EZdrummer 3. the hammond organ is the B4 by native instruments. for the vocals i used waves harmony. this plug-in is not easy to handle with chord changes, but fun to use.

the watercolour painting above was created with (my) text input and the help of midjourney AI.