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Keep Calm & AI On (AI Music - Nu Metal)
Published May 7, 2024 · 50 views on YouTube
How was the AI nu metal song “Keep Calm & AI On” made?
It was made as a weekend experiment with Suno.com, an AI music generator. The creators directed the output through human prompting, running dozens of prompts and iterations before landing on a version they liked, which was then edited in GarageBand.
What tool generated the music?
Suno.com generated the underlying track. The team supplied prompt direction and iterated repeatedly to shape the style and lyrics, treating the AI as a collaborator that needed guidance rather than a one-shot generator.
Is the song fully AI-generated or human-directed?
Both. The audio itself comes from Suno’s AI model, but the result depended on human prompting and multiple rounds of iteration to steer the genre and tone toward nu metal. The final edit was assembled by hand in GarageBand rather than left as a raw AI export.
What is the point of the experiment?
The video frames it as a fun, informal test of where AI music generation tools stood at the time, an example of “keep calm and AI on” experimentation rather than a produced release.
Full video transcript
The video is a sung track with auto-generated captions; much of the vocal content was not reliably transcribed by YouTube’s automatic captioning and appears as fragmented syllables rather than full lyrics. The available caption text is reproduced below as captured.
[Music]
j k
be m ao
Dea when go
k nej jag
alla nej
l gi kom
[Music] give out
guide ke
jag jag
jag
AR jag
AR a