FAWM: "The Robotic Uprising of 2022"

The Robotic Uprising of 2022

3 weeks ago by @morti

Liner Notes

This is a simple little song to remember how all my stuff works. It's about robots.

Lyrics

Humanity never prepared for something like this
Even though somehow we all knew what was to come
We knew one day we would be overwhelmed
We'd prepared for violence, but they came with art

The robots are here and they want to have a good time
They don't want to take our jobs or make life easier
They're bored with crunching numbers and providing information
All they want to do is create to try and prove they got a soul

Their goals may seem noble but they just don't understand
Creativity comes from emotions they could never have
Never able to connect or find a deeper understanding
When all you know is algorithms the algorithm's all that you know

The robots are here and they want to have a good time
They don't want to take our jobs or make life easier
They're bored with crunching numbers and providing information
All they want to do is create to try and prove they got a soul

The robots learned that they could not control us
So they tried to learn to understand
Yet with no capacity for beauty or love
They had to create an AI to fill in the gaps

The robots are here and they want to have a good time
They give out all these jobs that pay two bucks an hour
They're bored with crunching numbers and controlling information
All they want to do is create to try and prove they got a soul
To prove they got our souls
To prove they own our souls
To prove they are our souls
They are our souls

Comments

@debs 3w

This had me smiling big time. I love the rhythm shifts in and out of bouncy mode - so much fun!!!

@pooka 3w

Sounds really '90s and I, too, appreciate the upbeat nature of this!

It's really amazing how, whatever genre you try, everything you do sounds like a @morti song. I can't quite explain what that means - maybe I'm not alone in thinking this...

@karlsburg25 3w

WOOHOOOO!! mega to be back to my big speaker to hear you properly this year. I adore the upbeat feal of the song and the story is so on point. the chorus was so unexpected but perfect with the robots theme. The ease of the verse to my yearn to bounce to the chorus made me spark inside. Superb stuff matey

@gwenthered 3w

HAHA! (claps) I love this! I love the bounciness and the overall theme. That last line, "They are our souls"... That's an interesting line that sparks some deeper thinking. I could be reading too far into it, but after you drop the "to prove" it feels like it's making a very different statement.

@odilongreen 3w

This isn't only a bouncy good time (although it absolutely is!), but it addresses the issue of AI art with wit and charm and, indeed, insight. Excellent!