As Europe (together with Australia and Israel) are glued to their TV sets watching the 64th Eurovision song competition, we asked ourselves What makes a Eurovision song memorable? does a Eurovision hit have special DNA?
We are a group of artists, musicians and programmers that wanted explore human creativity and challenge it. We have created a Eurovision AI song that celebrates Eurovision – its melodrama, kitsch and camp, its humor and its gimmicks. The result is comprised entirely of material written and composed by Artificial Intelligence, titled “Blue Jeans & Bloody Tears”.
The project team fed hundreds of Eurovision songs – melodies and lyrics – into a neuron network. Then, algorithms produced thousands of new tunes and lines of verse, from which a few musical units were carefully selected and “welded” into a song.
We hope this song will become the Eurovision unofficial anthem of Eurovision 2019. A duet on disillusioned love between Izhar Cohen (Israel’s first Eurovision winner, 1978) and a computer, written and composed by a computer. The song was produced by Avshalom Ariel – one of the creators of TOY (Eurovision song winner, 2018)
Lyrics:
I am lost when i’m with you
There’s no hesitation in your eyes
Baby bye bye bye
Oh bye bye bye
Baby by myself the stain
grows more obvious
In this pain of the bird who’s flying
Over roses of sadness
Baby bye bye bye
Oh bye bye bye
Baby summer’s gone
It’s gone for the both of us
And tears will always have wet eyes
I’ll cry but I’ll survive
On a mission
I will let you go forever
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
There’s no life without your life in misery
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Don’t give up on a precious summer
Rolling in the moonshine
Baby by bye-bye
Oh by bye-bye
Baby let me go
So close to the holy ground
Tears will always have wet eyes
I’ll cry but I’ll survive
On a mission
I will let you go forever
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
There’s no life without your life in misery
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Don’t break my heart – It’s powerless
This magic is in spite of me
Don’t keep me hanging on
Don’t break my heart – It’s powerless
This magic is in spite of me
Don’t keep me hanging on
keep me hanging on
keep me hanging on
I will let you go forever
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
There’s no life without your life in misery
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
There’s no life without your life in misery
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Concept and Creative direction by Nimrod (Nim) Shapira (nimshap.com)
Construction and Production by Allenby Concept House (allenby.co.il)
Co-produced by Nimrod (Nim) Shapira
Song production:
Song Curation by Amir Shoenfeld
Song Production by Avshalom Ariel
Additional song curation by Ben Scheflan, Nim Shapira, Avshalom Ariel and Eran Hadas
Background vocals by Avshalom Ariel and Ben Scheflan
Mix by Omer Schonberger
Mastering by Jonathan Jacobi
Recorded at Jaffa Sound Arts
Music video team:
Directed by Karni and Saul @ Sulkybunny (sulkybunny.com)
Title design by Adam Blufarb
Illustrations by Eliran Bichman
Deep Learning team:
Lyrics generation by Eran Hadas
AI and ML Team:
Oracle Innovation and Oracle Cloud
Asaf Sobol – Senior Business Development leader, Oracle Israel
Andy Welch – Innovation engineer, Lead data scientist, Oracle UK
Asaf Lev – Senior Innovation engineer, Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel
David Cottee – Senior Director of Innovation, Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel
Midi conversion and Music consultation by Micha Gilad
Additional Midi conversion by Ann Streichman
Legal consultancy: Attorneys Sally Gillis and Shirley Gal from Eitan, Mehulal, Sadot.
Public relations:
POSITIVE Communications
Yuval Haring
Special thanks to Oracle EMEA PR team
Making of team:
Directed and Edited by Nitay Dagan
Cinematography by Stephan Stelman and Omri Dagan
Special Thanks: Ronen Harten, Nadav Hekselman, Elad Zakai, Eyal Linur, Roy Kafri, Lior Zalmanson, Shine Horovits, Tamir Leibovich, Mysh Rozanov, Sagi James Shahar, Gal Shaya, Tamar Scheflan, Vico Shaharabani, Aner Baruch, Omri Anghel, Ran Menachem, Eran-Shushu Spanier, Udi Ben-Arie, Cheli Menashe, Roy Hollander, Oren Solo, Einat Hirsch, Bella Faylayev, Nirit Green, Alessandro Zanoni, Baruch and Tehila Shapira, Efrat and Itay Gdor, Yuval Shapira and Yaara Gdor
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Sounds kinda of those happy/motivational songs from the first years of the 2010s, one of those were the video has this caracteristics.
This will be A.I's theme as they conquer the world
In this pain of the bird who's flying over roses of sadness 🙁
This is pretty awful.
This robot is lowkey terrifying. I love it.
Well, guess I'll be singing this at work tomorrow.
People keep shitting on the "Tears will always have wet eyes" line but it's honestly not even that bad. It's personifying two concepts to make them similar to having a relationship.
I need me that pink baboon ASAP !!!
Why is Israel in eurovision?
Reminds me of space dandy. If you don’t know what it is, please for the love of everything that is anime, check it out.
"Tears will always have wet eyes" that hit me so hard. This song is so deep.
This reminds me of what Miyazaki said in response to seeing 3D model movement animations created by AI:
“I strongly feel that this an insult to life itself.”
I know for sure he’d think that about this.
Uh, yeah we made a robot that cuts and pastes music so we can infringe on as many copyrights as possible for youtube views. Woke.
Pop music composers be sweating when they hear AIs can do a better job.
Damn this sucks (Edit I’m a minute in this is growing on me)
umm. ok… well… mm 😶
Lyrics make about as much sense as any other song I've heard.
kinda good th0
Eurovision song contest: Robonia, the country I didn't make up.
Hahahahahahaha this song is better than some actual music.
Atleast we know they wouldn't be taking musicians jobs anytime soon
Bart Baker since China:
Holy shit don't watch this if you're tripping
Incrível. É das melhores músicas da Eurovisão que já ouvi.
The robot part is mediocre, but the part where the man starts singing it gets amazing
This song is giving me chaotic energy
It is so robotic, but shocingly mosy of humans are
Its ok. Ok so to study AI I go
Damn robots are making better songs than us too