MIDI Week Singles: "Deinne innere Welt" - Dark Trip (MQ2)

  [Disclaimer:  I received a review key for Dark Trip through Keymailer, a third-party website/company that connects publishers and developers with content creators.  The game was given without promise or expectation of a positive review, only that the game be played and content be created through the playing of the game and the experience.  Unless otherwise noted, all content in the following article is from my own playthrough of this game.] 

"Deinne innere Welt" from Dark Trip on the Meta Quest 2
Composer: iTales VR & Suno
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: iTales VR
Developer: iTales VR

I was legitimately questioning whether or not I should use this track for a MIDI Week Singles article.  First and foremost, the song is entirely AI-generated from the site Suno.com.  From what I can tell from the site, you put in a description prompt of the song you want created, just like any other AI platform, but here you specifically reference existing musical artists and genres.

For "Deinne innere Welt" the words were created by iTales VR with a nudge in the genre and style direction, but the music and the vocals were all created by Suno.  I didn't know this at the time I first heard the song in Room #4 and it actually reminded me a lot of the steampunk group, The Clockwork Quartet who only released three songs 12 years ago, although with a slightly kinkier edge and full of innuendo.  The quality of the music and the vocals sounded intentional in that slightly garbled way you would expect an old record to sound on a phonograph from 80+ years ago.  So I found that I was really enjoying the song in the game and hoped for a longer version after leaving the VR world.  And that was when I discovered the origin of the song.

On its own, outside of the game, it is more obvious that the vocals are not sung by a living person and they come across as somewhat stilted, even with the crescendo and greater inflection towards the end of the song.  But you know, I still like the song.  Maybe a live band will stumble upon this article and/or the song on Suno and decide that it needs to be covered.  That'd be cool.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian

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