Based on the poem by Robert Browning.
I strongly advise anyone signing up for Suno to use their Discord accounts, if they have one. This allows them to bypass Suno’s rather intrusive demands for personal information.
Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
Based on the poem by Robert Browning.
I strongly advise anyone signing up for Suno to use their Discord accounts, if they have one. This allows them to bypass Suno’s rather intrusive demands for personal information.
Severely abridged version of this famous poem:
https://suno.com/song/4f3d8d56-2b62-4915-8eba-b192dd586f30
I know the female vocalist is kind of a different choice, but just pretend that it’s Rikki’s ally, the female tailor-bird, singing: https://suno.com/song/9b369786-912d-41d6-aa94-9c456021ea54
Also none of the male versions that Suno generated really captured the menacing agility of Rikki the mongoose and Nag the cobra.
If you’re not familiar with the story, the Chuck Jones adaptation is pretty faithful, with word for word narration by Orson Welles, and can be viewed here: https://archive.org/details/rikkitikkitavi_201701
I used an excerpt from some verse translation on gutenberg as the lyrics.
https://suno.com/song/b5f4dfad-d9a4-4627-bb83-d9c57d4b900c
This seems to be a purely or nearly purely AI construct, with human prompting and editing, but I thought it pretty amusing.
https://suno.com/song/b9544b42-9186-4039-a749-493aeea897b8
For those concerned about the misuses of LLMs, aka AIs, it’s worth noting that Suno will literally block you from using artists names in prompts, and this Kipling poem is to the best of my knowledge in the public domain.
Okay, from a certain point of view, this should be kind of disturbing: an Italian singer, father of the actress who played the devil in Passion of the Christ, is practicing Babel-style confusion of tongues while his grimaces, imposing teeth and bad hair make him look a bit like Henry Blake, Sir Christopher Lee’s Hyde-style persona from I Monster.
But really, it’s just a fun parody of American style pop songs done with nonsense lyrics. Enjoy!