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Names should be easy to choose by diceware. Then you could just have a JS tool to convert strings like A-B-C-G#-A-B-C#-G to and from diceware names. And a HTTP endpoint that synthesizes the music as a gzipped .wav file on demand.



To save the next person looking it up:

"Diceware is a method for creating passphrases, passwords, and other cryptographic variables using ordinary dice as a hardware random number generator. For each word in the passphrase, five rolls of the dice are required. The numbers from 1 to 6 that come up in the rolls are assembled as a five-digit number, e.g. 43146. That number is then used to look up a word in a word list. In the English list 43146 corresponds to munch. By generating several words in sequence, a lengthy passphrase can be constructed."


Or just run `shuf -n 6 /usr/share/dict/words`


I fed four popular song names from 2019 to GPT-2, and it suggested some other song titles in the same genre. A few of them already exist:

B2B, by X Ambassadors (feat. MØ, Alex Clare, Lido, FUSE) .

Saturday Night, by Dot Genesis.

Saturday Night, by Above & Beyond.

Thanks for the Wrecking Ball, by Black Moon.

Best Regards, by Florence + The Machine.

"Fuck You All," by RBE.

Birthday Love, by Notoriously Morbid.

Welcome to the jungle, by Rogue (feat. Mosca).

Nobody and Nobody, by

Stunna (feat. Q-Tip).

Feels Like Summer, by Public Enemy (feat. Public Enemy).

Critical, by Mobb Deep (feat. X-Clan).

Electric, by Josh Wink.

Down, by Aaliyah.

Hip Hop 4 Life, by Quad City DJ's.

Post-9/11, by The Notorious B.I.G.

The Oneness, by 99 Problems (feat. AK-47).

Where Are Ü Now, by Too

All These Things That I've Done, by The 1975.

Triple Poison, by Weezer (feat. Weezer/Beck).

Lionheart, by Usher.

In time, we've come so far

I feel like this approach ought to work well for generating names. Also, lyrics:

Pull me up like you be makin' an '80s comeback

The devil, he stole your soul and he's back like it ain't no fuckin' thing

I'ma turn you on my side with another trend, boom

Heard they wanted to make a video and they could only get me

When they heard I could do and write and everything was under control

Hey, you could say, just listen to this hit I made

Twist the straw, pull the switch and wrap this napkin around it

All I hear is "ice-nine"

It takes a 'dub to make this work, your stage is a den of thieves

Big Ugly gave me a coupon for a high-paying job

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I'm not having any luck getting it to write rhyming lyrics yet, but maybe http://wry.me/sonnetron/ would be enough — less evocative, perhaps, but in flawless iambic pentameter with a standard rhyming scheme.



I like my rap abstract and not necessarily rhyming so I’m digging the lyrics a lot. Got anymore examples?




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