CoalCracker Musical Mosaics: Blind Melon “Change”

Musical Mosaics is a new category on CoalCracker.com. For over two decades, I’ve been a PHP developer and independent contractor in the heart of Pennsylvania’s coal region. Recently, my passion for AI technology and travel inspired me to transform CoalCracker into a platform where I explore AI’s applications in my work, share travel adventures, and embark on creative projects like this one.

With these CoalCracker Musical Mosaics, I combine my love for music with the innovative capabilities of AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E. Over the past year, I’ve been experimenting with these technologies to turn song lyrics into art. During this creative journey, I’ve rediscovered Blind Melon. As I navigate life’s challenges, their music has become a source of inspiration and appreciation. Shannon Hoon was an absolute lyrical genius, a misunderstood talent the world lost far too soon.

Many days, I’ve spent working while listening to endless playlists on Spotify. During breaks, I use DALL-E to create images inspired by the lyrics of the songs I’m enjoying. This experiment covers a wide range of music, mostly from the ’80s and ’90s, featuring artists like Blind Melon, Foo Fighters, Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains, Skid Row, Jimmy Eat World, Machinehead, The Offspring, and more.

It’s been fascinating to see the unique creations that emerge and to experiment with different prompts to generate various styles and types of images. These endless nights immersed in code and melodies have led to extensive Spotify playlists, with each song’s melody weaving through my consciousness. Often, a lyric catches my attention and sparks a sudden urge to use ChatGPT to transform those words—or even entire songs—into pictures with DALL-E 3.

I decided to share some of my favorite images here as CoalCracker Musical Mosaics, starting with this post featuring “Change” by Blind Melon. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

Artist: Blind Melon

Song: Change

Prompt:

please create a Wide aspect ratio painting for the following lyrics using cubism:

When you feel life ain’t worth living
You’ve got to stand up
Take a look around, look up way to the sky, hell yeah
And when your deepest thoughts are broken
Keep on dreamin’ boy, ’cause when you stop dreamin’ it’s time to die

Prompt:

lets try another version that is a mix of acrylic, neon lights and fairy tale

Prompt:

lets try another version that is a mix of 35mm film, scifi, victorian and neon lights

Prompt:

Lets try a widescreen mix of acrylic, neon lights, fairy tale and 35mm for these lyrics:

And as we all play parts of tomorrow, Lord no
Some ways we’ll work, and other ways we’ll play, yeah
But I know we can’t all stay here forever
So I’m gonna write my words on the face of today
And then they’ll paint it

Prompt:

Lets try a widescreen mix of abstract, acrylic, expressionism, with a very light touch of neon lights mixed with fairy tale and an overall feel of 35mm for these lyrics:

I know we can’t all stay here forever
So I’m gonna write my words on the face of today

Prompt:

Lets go with a widescreen mix of abstract expressionism, with a very light touch of chalk art & art nouveau and an overall feel of 35mm for the same lyrics

Prompt:

Lets go with a widescreen mix of expressionist chalk art, with a very light touch of neon lights mixed with art nouveau for the same lyrics

Early on in my journey, I also used Stability AI’s dream studio to generate some images as well. I did a few for the following lyrics / prompt

Prompt:

Keep on dreamin’ boy, ’cause when you stop dreamin’ it’s time to die

Some of the first Images I asked DALL-E 3 to generate for Blind Mellon “Change” was when it was first introduced into the ChatGPT interface. I hadn’t quite figured out the prompts for the different artistic styles at that point and the image format was a bit different, but the results were interesting, nonetheless.

Prompt:

Can you create an image to describe these song lyrics:

Take a look around, look up way to the sky, hell yeah
And when your deepest thoughts are broken
Keep on dreamin’ boy, ’cause when you stop dreamin’ it’s time to die