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The Lyrics Game

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Anybody can post a challenge.

The rules of the game are simple, take any song you like from any genre you want, put the lyrics through any AI [you may weight lyrics as the AI allows] that you want and post the resulting image here under the post title Name That Song [GENRE]. After 48-72 Hours or if the answer is guessed sooner, edit the post's title to [Solved][Genre] and put the song title and artist (and optionally any highlighted lyrics) in a spoiler tag in the body of the post.

Other than that, enjoy.

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[24 hour hint] Since this is a pretty difficult one, here's a big hint: The band is named after a poem by John Milton.

[Solution] This was a hard one due to the genre, but I loved how the AI captured the two states the subject of the song finds himself in by using the heaven and hell imagery side by side and the depiction of the long stairwell to absolution. Nowhere in the song does it explicitly mention heaven or that ascension, but it does capture the protagonists journey from fear and self-doubt to letting to and wondering why they ever felt that way to begin with quite well.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Is the artist “paradise lost”? Idk any of their music so someone else will have to help if it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Correct! Partial points for the band, now all we need is the song.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Won't back down - Tom Petty?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Great song, but seeing as there are no gates to hell in this image I'm pretty sure Tom's waiting just off-screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's either Stairway to Heaven or some Dante's Divina Comedia type stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not quite, but I get why it comes across that way. Tip: The themes in this song evoke imagery of hell as an allegory for personal growth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gangster's Paradise, 1st verse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

No, but you've definitely given me an idea for the next one!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Great song, one of the best guitar solos ever, but not the inspiration for this image.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Aiming for heaven though serving in hell?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Sabaton have a way with words, but not the song in question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not quite, although the song that inspired this picture does deal with fear.