As Europe (together with Australia and Israel) are glued to their TV sets watching the 64th Eurovision song competition, we asked ourselves What makes a Eurovision song memorable? does a Eurovision hit have special DNA?
We are a group of artists, musicians and programmers that wanted explore human creativity and challenge it. We have created a Eurovision AI song that celebrates Eurovision – its melodrama, kitsch and camp, its humor and its gimmicks. The result is comprised entirely of material written and composed by Artificial Intelligence, titled "Blue Jeans & Bloody Tears".
The project team fed hundreds of Eurovision songs – melodies and lyrics – into a neuron network. Then, algorithms produced thousands of new tunes and lines of verse, from which a few musical units were carefully selected and “welded” into a song.
We hope this song will become the Eurovision unofficial anthem of Eurovision 2019. A duet on disillusioned love between Izhar Cohen (Israel's first Eurovision winner, 1978) and a computer, written and composed by a computer. The song was produced by Avshalom Ariel - one of the creators of TOY (Eurovision song winner, 2018)
Lyrics:
I am lost when i’m with you
There’s no hesitation in your eyes
Baby bye bye bye
Oh bye bye bye
Baby by myself the stain
grows more obvious
In this pain of the bird who’s flying
Over roses of sadness
Baby bye bye bye
Oh bye bye bye
Baby summer’s gone
It’s gone for the both of us
And tears will always have wet eyes
I’ll cry but I'll survive
On a mission
I will let you go forever
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
There’s no life without your life in misery
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Don’t give up on a precious summer
Rolling in the moonshine
Baby by bye-bye
Oh by bye-bye
Baby let me go
So close to the holy ground
Tears will always have wet eyes
I’ll cry but I'll survive
On a mission
I will let you go forever
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
There’s no life without your life in misery
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Don’t break my heart - It’s powerless
This magic is in spite of me
Don’t keep me hanging on
Don’t break my heart - It’s powerless
This magic is in spite of me
Don’t keep me hanging on
keep me hanging on
keep me hanging on
I will let you go forever
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
There’s no life without your life in misery
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Blue jeans and bloody tears
There’s no life without your life in misery
Blue jeans and bloody tears
Concept and Creative direction by Nimrod (Nim) Shapira (nimshap.com)
Construction and Production by Allenby Concept House (allenby.co.il)
Co-produced by Nimrod (Nim) Shapira
Song production:
Song Curation by Amir Shoenfeld
Song Production by Avshalom Ariel
Additional song curation by Ben Scheflan, Nim Shapira, Avshalom Ariel and Eran Hadas
Background vocals by Avshalom Ariel and Ben Scheflan
Mix by Omer Schonberger
Mastering by Jonathan Jacobi
Recorded at Jaffa Sound Arts
Music video team:
Directed by Karni and Saul @ Sulkybunny (sulkybunny.com)
Title design by Adam Blufarb
Illustrations by Eliran Bichman
Deep Learning team:
Lyrics generation by Eran Hadas
AI and ML Team:
Oracle Innovation and Oracle Cloud
Asaf Sobol - Senior Business Development leader, Oracle Israel
Andy Welch - Innovation engineer, Lead data scientist, Oracle UK
Asaf Lev - Senior Innovation engineer, Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel
David Cottee - Senior Director of Innovation, Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel
Midi conversion and Music consultation by Micha Gilad
Additional Midi conversion by Ann Streichman
Legal consultancy: Attorneys Sally Gillis and Shirley Gal from Eitan, Mehulal, Sadot.
Public relations:
POSITIVE Communications
Yuval Haring
Special thanks to Oracle EMEA PR team
Making of team:
Directed and Edited by Nitay Dagan
Cinematography by Stephan Stelman and Omri Dagan
Special Thanks: Ronen Harten, Nadav Hekselman, Elad Zakai, Eyal Linur, Roy Kafri, Lior Zalmanson, Shine Horovits, Tamir Leibovich, Mysh Rozanov, Sagi James Shahar, Gal Shaya, Tamar Scheflan, Vico Shaharabani, Aner Baruch, Omri Anghel, Ran Menachem, Eran-Shushu Spanier, Udi Ben-Arie, Cheli Menashe, Roy Hollander, Oren Solo, Einat Hirsch, Bella Faylayev, Nirit Green, Alessandro Zanoni, Baruch and Tehila Shapira, Efrat and Itay Gdor, Yuval Shapira and Yaara Gdor
