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Artist Name: Craig Jackson

 

Samus emerges from the visor in this sweeping orchestral ballad. Powerful strings and cinematic swells reveal the humanity behind the armored hero, elevating the classic theme into a story of resilience and introspection.


Games & Sources

Super Metroid - Samus Aran's Theme

Edited by pixelseph
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In a vacuum, this is an interesting concept, but it's not a VGM arrangement, it's unrelated to the source. Not sure in what circumstance you believe we'd post original music about a VG character, as opposed to a VGM arrangement.

Checklist:

- Mostly unrelated composition, practically 0 VGM arrangement
- Warbly vocals
- Lyrics also feel AI-prompt generated, too on the nose with the rhyming, always extended character meta-narratives
- Staid, limited drum writing
- Dynamics possibly undercut by limiter on volume

NO

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Sorry if my perception of this undersells how much actual human-generated content is there, Craig. If I had to bet on it though, this comes across like prompt-generated lyrics and the song structure isn't dynamic enough or connected enough to the original VGM to feel like it's mostly Craig's direct input on this.

I definitely don't want a trend of people sending AI-generated content here, no matter how good it ends up being. The aim is to highlight skill, intention, and creativity with human-created, human-written, human-produced music. When you take human decision-making out of the equation, even if the end result sounds good, it wouldn't be people genuinely creating the music.

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Larry already covered the major issues and the lack of source usage is more than enough to prevent this one from passing.

Given this is in direct violation of our Submission Standards, namely 2.3, 7.1, and 7.2:

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And considering you weren't truthful or forthcoming about the usage of prompt-based generative AI tools in the creation of your submissions, I am no longer interested in being polite about them. Unless you plan on honing your craft as a composer, arranger, and mix engineer, shove this slop where the sun don't shine and never darken our digital doorstep again.

NO

Edited by paradiddlesjosh
Posted

Cosigning with my fellow Js.  Cool concept, and the composition and mix sound good enough to do very well on YouTube, Spotify and all the other socials, but for OCR we look for very specific things, including enough source use with thoughtful and creative interpretations, and real musicianship.  While we allow limited use of AI tools to enhance a track, this submission (and the other tracks you submitted on the same day) is far too much AI for our standards. 

If we have misjudged this situation, I'd welcome some real, solid proof that these tracks were made with a lot more human involvement than we are hearing, but my feeling is that such proof cannot be provided.  Best of luck to you with these, you've hopped on a shiny new lucrative bandwagon with these AI tracks, we just don't want to host music like this on OCR.

NO

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As much as I'd like to see the human involvement in this piece or the other submissions by Craig, it is overshadowed by the audacity of submitting an entire album's worth of generative AI slop and lying about how large a role generative AI played in it. I have no pithy comments to make - my fellow judges summed up my feelings pretty well, and there's no need to belabor the point. 

NO. DO NOT resubmit anything using Suno or other such tools again and lie about it.

  • pixelseph changed the title to *NO* Super Metroid "More Than a Suit"
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