Happy Christmas from pixels.cool! In the spirit of this festive season, here’s an original winter composition to enjoy with your cup of glühwein or Irish coffee!
Digital Dreams: A song for Christmas from your friends at pixels.cool
If you prefer your festive music to be accompanied by cosy visuals, we’ve created this visualisation just for you!
At the end of this ‘year of generative AI’, it won’t surprise you to discover the song is AI-generated. What may surprise you is just how easy it is…
Creating the song lyrics using the OpenAI model O1 mini
We used the WordPress plugin ‘AI Engine’ earlier this year for our summer series of AI explainers, so we linked the AI Engine chatbot to OpenAI’s latest model, o1 mini, and requested a song about digital dreaming including two verses and two choruses:
We went on to prompt for a couple of tweaks to the suggested lyrics. Below you can see the full conversation…
Full ‘chat’ with o1 mini to ‘shape’ the song lyrics
AI:
Hi! How can I help you?
User:
i need lyrics for a short christmas song about digital dreaming. i need 2 verses and a chorus
AI:
Sure, I’d be happy to help! Here’s a short Christmas song about digital dreaming with two verses and a chorus:
Digital Christmas Dream
Verse 1:
Snowflakes light up the midnight screen,
Pixel stars in a virtual scene.
Messages glow with festive cheer,
Connecting hearts from far and near.
Chorus:
In this digital Christmas dream,
Love and joy flow like a seamless stream.
Through the bytes and the binary lights,
We share our warmth on silent nights.
Verse 2:
Echoes of laughter in online streams,
Wishing you joy in all your dreams.
Virtual trees and sparkling snow,
In our hearts, the feelings grow.
Chorus:
In this digital Christmas dream,
Love and joy flow like a seamless stream.
Through the bytes and the binary lights,
We share our warmth on silent nights.
Feel free to adjust or personalize the lyrics to better fit your melody or specific vision!
User:
change the second line of the chorus to be shorter and easier to sing
AI:
Sure! I’ve adjusted the second line of the chorus to make it shorter and easier to sing. Here’s the updated version:
Digital Christmas Dream
Verse 1:
Snowflakes light up the midnight screen,
Pixel stars in a virtual scene.
Messages glow with festive cheer,
Connecting hearts from far and near.
Chorus:
In this digital Christmas dream,
Love and joy like a flowing stream.
Through the bytes and the binary lights,
We share our warmth on silent nights.
Verse 2:
Echoes of laughter in online streams,
Wishing you joy in all your dreams.
Virtual trees and sparkling snow,
In our hearts, the feelings grow.
Chorus:
In this digital Christmas dream,
Love and joy like a flowing stream.
Through the bytes and the binary lights,
We share our warmth on silent nights.
Feel free to tweak it further to match your melody and style!
User:
change the second line of verse 2
AI:
Absolutely! I’ve updated the second line of Verse 2 for you. Here’s the revised version of your Christmas song:
Digital Christmas Dream
Verse 1:
Snowflakes light up the midnight screen,
Pixel stars in a virtual scene.
Messages glow with festive cheer,
Connecting hearts from far and near.
Chorus:
In this digital Christmas dream,
Love and joy like a flowing stream.
Through the bytes and the binary lights,
We share our warmth on silent nights.
Verse 2:
Echoes of laughter in online streams,
Sending warmth through digital beams.
Virtual trees and sparkling snow,
In our hearts, the feelings grow.
Chorus:
In this digital Christmas dream,
Love and joy like a flowing stream.
Through the bytes and the binary lights,
We share our warmth on silent nights.
Feel free to adjust further to best fit your melody and vision!
User:
make line 2 of verse 2 ‘Sending warmth through glowing beams’
AI:
Certainly! I’ve updated the second line of Verse 2 as you requested. Here’s the revised version of your Christmas song:
Digital Christmas Dream
Verse 1:
Snowflakes light up the midnight screen,
Pixel stars in a virtual scene.
Messages glow with festive cheer,
Connecting hearts from far and near.
Chorus:
In this digital Christmas dream,
Love and joy like a flowing stream.
Through the bytes and the binary lights,
We share our warmth on silent nights.
Verse 2:
Echoes of laughter in online streams,
Sending warmth through glowing beams.
Virtual trees and sparkling snow,
In our hearts, the feelings grow.
Chorus:
In this digital Christmas dream,
Love and joy like a flowing stream.
Through the bytes and the binary lights,
We share our warmth on silent nights.
Feel free to tweak any other parts to better fit your melody or personal vision. Happy songwriting and Merry Christmas!
Generating the song with udio.com
Udio is one of our favourite AI audio generation tools. With the FREE daily credits you can try it out before deciding on a paid subscription.
The set-up is an easy three step process! As shown below, we started by added the keywords downtempo, christmas, festive and winter to the keywords section. Next, we selected the udio-1.30 model, which allows for up to a 2m10s second song, and pasted our AI-generated lyrics into the ‘write lyrics’ section. All that was left to do was to click the CREATE button!
Udio automatically generates two versions of the song, a process which takes around 2 minutes. Once complete, play them back using the controls at the top right of the window:
To DOWNLOAD the MP3 file, just click on the 3 dots on the right!
Where will our journey take us in 2025? See you in January as pixels.cool continues into its fourth year!
