Or as I would like to call it: from idea, through general tweaks, to an early YouTube release and all major music platforms — sometimes within hours, but mostly within a couple of days.
Where the Idea Comes From
So, the story begins with one example, which can be found on my — well, now not-so-hidden — Music Production subdomain: https://music.idzan.hr/likovi-s-punjaca/
How I got the idea for the lyrics is written in that post, but let me explain it in longer terms. I was playing around with the Ideas feature on my YouTube channel after another song (better call it a diss track) about electric vehicles and us folks in gas-guzzler vehicles. One of those ideas was: a song parodying a day of people at a typical Croatian public EV charger — where you can find all kinds of characters (and yes, it carries my own knowledge of how people can be all “c’mon, hurry up,” and which cable goes where, from my work experience as a Customer Support Representative)…
In the song, I didn’t want to use any real-world names, so I used generic names for the types of people who hang around public EV chargers.
First Things First: Blank Page and Lyrics
The lyrics started as a blank in the Notes app with minor markers — intro, chorus, verses, and so on. That blank skeleton then went into the LLM of choice. I mostly use Proton Lumo AI, or even Grok xAI, for lyric tweaks — maybe some grammar fixes and adjustments to verse parts — before the next step.
Next Step: Suno AI for Music and Audio
In Suno AI, I always make a few versions and variations, always using the latest Pro model at the time, with tweaks to style, weirdness, and how it should sound in my head while whispering the lyrics in that style — i.e., for this song, it went full parody Pop and satirical Rock in my head. If it needs a tweak, I’ll create a new version and enjoy playing with it.
The Final Step
If it sounds the way I want it — I create the song name, use various AI tools to generate the cover image for DistroKid, and a widened version for YouTube, which I always put together in Canva Pro.
DistroKid then prepares the song for publishing on the main platforms — YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Meta services, and TikTok — so it’s ready for Reels when the time comes.
When the song drops, a few days later it’s on all platforms, shared on my music subdomain and posted as a reel everywhere. The one exception among music platforms is SoundCloud — that one I upload manually anyway.
Why Tell You All This?
Because this is how this song was created and finally shared — to music platforms and even on my self-hosted domain.
Your next song idea isn’t dead either. It’s just waiting for its first act. 😉
Editor’s Note:
Text was checked with Proton Lumo AI for grammar and for cover image genertion.