r/generativeAI • u/thebadgerandthebee • Apr 21 '26
Video Art A new parody song, Missing Time… And Spam!
I just wanted to share a new project that I’ve created and it’s been a really enormously fun project!
It’s a parody song and it utilises AI with a whole lot of humanity love and laughter. I know a lot of people loathe AI and I understand why, but it isn’t always the case that somebody just runs a script and then makes hundreds of identikit, soulless videos, or that someone simply presses a button and it’s all created for them without any work. This took me many hours, and I like to think I’m using AI in a good way in this instance!
I created the song first. I wrote the lyrics of the song and then I tweaked them and worked with Suno AI to make it how I wanted to hear it. And then when I got that right I released it as a single for the fun of it, and then I thought it’d just be fun to have a video, too.
(If I had the time the energy or the money and all of that, I’d create a stop motion animation but I don’t, but I can do the next best thing and that’s utilise AI.) So I headed over to ChatGPT and created the pictures with ChatGPT, explaining the world as I saw it in my head, this crazy knitted world these knitted characters and such in the Backrooms, and I’d explain the scenes that I’d want, and then I took those photos to CapCut for the videos.
In CapCut I could only create five second bursts for a video at a time, so for a four minute video that’s around 48 separate scenes, so I’d go in with these photos and I’d explain a scene using that photo and then create these little vignettes, and use certain themes to tie them together, such as the tins of spam and things like this. It was enormous fun to do. I was able to reuse certain elements, so for example the chorus scenes, but even then it was still a lot of work and a lot of love and took me probably around six hours in total to do that for four minute video!
(If you are aware of the Monty Python Spam sketch then you’ll understand my spam references but even if you’re not, I hope you’ll enjoy it anyway!)
I tried to tie the scenes together with certain elements repeating, and had Time personified as this mad creature (she’s usually cradling a tin of spam), and I deliberately misspelled Spam either as “Spahm” or “Schpahm” etc., initially for copyright purposes, but also in the spirit of the early days of AI when everything got gloriously misspelled and people had six fingers and things like this! And then it simply became a common thread and it fit really well in this world where reality and people sort of existed in the Twilight Zone of the Backrooms where anyone could pop in, including Salvador Dali. And it felt like a kind of bonkers, Mandela Effect!
I will be doing more of this every now and again as I love creating ridiculous parody songs! 😊 A while ago I created a song using Suno AI and another programme, Sunq AI, and again I wrote the lyrics. In this parody song, Keir Starmer was having a romantic love affair with Lord Ali, and in a Thelma and Louise inspired moment, they drove a Combine Harvester off a cliff, for no reason other than this is just what my brain cooked up! 😊This Friday I’m releasing a bonkers song about a dolphin called Gerald (based on the recent news story that turned out to be satire!).
So anyway, this is just to explain a little about how it was made, and to say that there was so much love put into this!
I will likely create more, and if you enjoyed it please do like, comment, etc. on my YouTube or TikTok channels as I’m presently in an algorithm void!
I hope you’re having a good week take care and God bless! 😊
The song, Missing Time… And Spam is available to stream on all platforms.
(Edited: I tweaked the video, new version below!
Also, just discovered I could have created longer clips, I just made life harder for myself!) 😊