Apparently All Along the Watchtower means something quite different when sung by Jimi Hendrix rather than Bob Dylan.
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#22Interesting stuff. I did some searches on some songs I like and the general gist was right. I tried it on American Pie and it seemed to match my understanding of the song, but this line stood out a bit: > Additionally, the line “Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey ‘n’ rye/ Singin’ ‘This’ll be the day that I die’” is a direct reference to Buddy Holly’s song “American Pie” which features the same line. I wasn't aw…
that's probably a window into the correspondence between the data corpus and the output. Lots of references to borrowings from Buddy Holly in American Pie, lots of references to individual lyrics being references, not enough consistency in discussions of references for the AI to mimic them rather than putting together fragments randomly in a way which makes sense as syntax but not as a description of the song...
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#23Hello! I'm the founder of the website, thank you for sharing my work. I'm open to feedback and feel free to shoot any question.
My question is: have you trained this using existing discussions about song meanings, or is it just using an existing model of general language to infer meaning?
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#24I spent a lot of time in the early 2000s on discussion forums and songmeanings.net learning about and contributing to interpretations and meanings of songs. This is an interesting concept (AI lyric interpretation) and my comment is something a bit deeper than this concept itself. Perhaps I'm showing my age, but what makes lyric interpretation so cool is that it's the intersection of two people's life experiences - th…
Isn't that true of all art interpretation, not just song lyrics?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey there! Founder here, thanks for the feedback. You're right, the whole thing as it is right now is something light hearted. I spent no more than 2-3 hours of development on this before launching and didn't expect it going so viral at all. In order to make it more reliable than it is right now I think of implementing upvote/downvote buttons and a comment system. I'm open to ideas if you think of any other ways to i…
You scored on the domain name. Songtell.com is a good one. Did you buy it on the aftermarket?
Nope! It was available. I found it with namewizard.ai, another tool I built :)
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#27Hello! I'm the founder of the website, thank you for sharing my work. I'm open to feedback and feel free to shoot any question.
My question is: have you trained this using existing discussions about song meanings, or is it just using an existing model of general language to infer meaning?
It's the plain GPT-3, I just crafted a good prompt. In the future I might fine-tune it providing examples based on the most upvoted meanings (still have to implement the feature)
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#28> The song "One Step Closer (Live in Texas)" by Linkin Park is about a person's feeling of needing to escape from their current situation and the pain that comes with it. The singer expresses their frustration with the endless cycle of hearing and saying the same words without resolution, and with every new words adding to the pain. As they feel like they are reaching a breaking point, they feel they need a little room to breathe and some space away from the situation. Ultimately, they are one step closer to the edge and they realize that any new words spoken to them will just take them one step closer to the edge and even closer to breaking.
Yo dawg… I heard you’re just one step closer…
Either way? Entertaining at least.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey there! Founder here, thanks for the feedback. You're right, the whole thing as it is right now is something light hearted. I spent no more than 2-3 hours of development on this before launching and didn't expect it going so viral at all. In order to make it more reliable than it is right now I think of implementing upvote/downvote buttons and a comment system. I'm open to ideas if you think of any other ways to i…
You scored on the domain name. Songtell.com is a good one. Did you buy it on the aftermarket?
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#30You can tell AI is still in its infancy as most of these interpretations are like a kid trying really hard to find some meaning but at the same time almost always missing some context (or subtext).
Most of them are just funny, and the whole thing is fascinating, but I cannot see much more use or value other than that at this point.