Andrew,

This is a really funny song! The Hook is so clever I think someone could actually make a movie out of it. Kind of like Mrs Doubtfire but with a different twist. Like you could have a bunch of wives who are all using this trick on their husbands as a group. If someone else doesn't use this idea I'm going to use it!

But I feel your pain man. God knows I've had to deal with this kind of a thing in real life so many times I've stopped counting. But as I've always told my wife, honey this is one thing you never have to worry about. Yes I may be the most flawed human being on the face of the Earth and the greatest sinner by far, but falling for this type of tomfoolery is the one thing you would never have to worry about. You could take a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and put her in front of me buck naked and I would say well I'm sorry but I'm married you know. And just walk away. It's my one redeeming feature and I hope that it will help me just barely squeak into heaven one day.

As for the music:

I don't think this is as much of a demo sound as you think. I think it's really really close to being commercial in sound with just a couple of tweaks.

There are some people out there on the fringes of the forum who put forth the notion that it's not possible to use real tracks to create a commercial recording. With all of the advancements that have been made of late that's absolute nonsense. For at least the backing tracks, say drums or bass or accordion or what have you, you're going to get exactly what you would get if you hired a live musician to come into a studio and paid everybody $5,000.

The only thing that you have to add in my opinion is one or two instruments of your own that add a little bit more spontaneity or quirkiness to the parts, so you get that element of surprise. Like a signature piano part or a signature guitar part or signature bass part even, something that does things that are so unique and unpredictable that you know they couldn't possibly have been generated by a program. Once you have that it's just a question of mixing it all down and voila you have a song that can sound like any other song that comes out of a modern studio.

Then it becomes just a question of mixing and mastering.

One of the greatest engineers on the face of the Earth, Andrew Scheps, mixes everything in the box on a laptop with cheap headphones. And he has the same vsts that we do. (And he even created a VST version of his own mixing tools for Waves.)

So... I say keep cranking out the tunes and keep experimenting, and I can surely see you coming out with some commercial grade songs. The thing that I really liked about this song is that it is funny, and has a great storyline, and it keeps pulling you along. And the melody is singable and memorable. AI will never be able to do all of that. It's way too predictable. Great human music is unpredictable. And AI does not have a sense of humor.

And yes your voice did have some totally Australian accents to it to me, but there's not a thing in the world wrong with that. I love Australian singers so if you picked up a couple of accent qualities while you're over there then good for you.

David Snyder
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