Last time,
I wrote about the moment
a song truly came alive
when vocals were added.
Following that momentum,
I finished three songs.
Naturally,
I thought the next one would be “Stardust.”
But that’s where I stopped.
From the beginning,
this song had an aura.
There was something there.
That much was certain.
And yet,
no matter how many times I generated it,
I couldn’t bring out what made it special.
Nothing quite clicked.
So I decided to step away from “Stardust” for a while.
Instead,
I turned my attention to the instrumental tracks
I had been collecting under the name “Melty.”
What if I added vocals to those?
Maybe by working through sheer volume,
something would start to become clearer.
That was the idea.
For “Melty,”
I decided to rely more heavily
on AI-generated lyric drafts.
At the same time,
I wanted to try something
that only AI really makes possible.
What I chose was
mixing Japanese and English lyrics
within the same songs.
The “Melty” tracks
naturally fit the rhythm of English lyrics.
On the other hand,
writing in English had always felt
like a high hurdle for me.
That was exactly why
this felt like a challenge
made possible by AI.
The first song I revisited
was the very first one I had ever created:
“Feeling in the Night.”
I remember this clearly.
Late at night, lying in bed,
I opened ChatGPT
and wrote out a story
as it came to me.
A man is walking through the desert.
Along the way, he meets another man.
That man says,
“If you’re ever in trouble, chant a prayer.”
Eventually, the man collapses
and drifts into the space
between life and death.
Floating in the sky,
he keeps chanting the prayer.
Someone is desperately
trying to revive him.
When he returns to reality,
a hellish landscape awaits—
a blazing sun
and an endless desert.
I wrote out that entire story
and asked ChatGPT,
“Please turn this into song lyrics.”
It transformed the story neatly
into a three-verse structure.
I adjusted the lines myself—
cutting sections,
matching syllable counts
to fit the song’s length.
For the instrumental break,
I added English lyrics
to match the atmosphere of the track.
Then it was just repetition:
generating vocals again and again
until everything settled into place.
That’s how “Feeling in the Night”
was reborn as a song called
“Buddha.”
I followed the same process
with the other tracks.
First, I chose a theme.
Then I asked ChatGPT
to create a rough lyrical draft.
From there,
I revised everything by hand.
For example:
“Musō Mode”
tells the story of a protagonist
who is reincarnated
and suddenly becomes unbeatable.
“The Music Is There”
was inspired by imagining
Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke”
reinterpreted for the present day.
“Messenger of Justice”
takes on social issues
in the age of social media.
Once lyrics and vocals were added,
the “melty” tracks
began to shine in their own distinct ways.
Before I knew it,
there were eleven songs.
I brought them together
and completed the album
“Melty.”
After it was finished,
I listened to “Melty”
almost every day for a while.
Each song has
a clearly defined world.
Listening straight through,
it genuinely felt
like a very comfortable album.
That realization
gave me a bit of confidence.
And so,
I returned once again
to working on “Stardust.”
At the same time,
another thought began to form.
I wanted to release this album
into the world.
When it comes to music distribution,
Spotify is the first thing that comes to mind.
But honestly,
I didn’t really understand
how any of it worked.
With “Melty” complete,
I decided it was time
to properly look into that process.
That’s where
the next chapter begins.
🎧 Buddha
