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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.

Here is a list to a few AI image generators you can use.

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Solved by @[email protected], the song is "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" which is probably best known for the 1941 version by The Ink Spots that is used in Fallout games.

Thanks for playing!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No, sorry. Here's a hint: your song was released in 1983, my song was released just over 40 years earlier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

A good guess, but the song was "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" and was guessed by someone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Correct, well played! You are the winner!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sorry, no. Here's a hint: the narrator of your song is the fire, the narrator of my song is only capable of starting fire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Great song though!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Dammit! I always forget the ink spots!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Heart of Gold" Neil Young?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, sorry. Fantastic song though, here's a hint: Both of our songs have more than three notable covers, though your song is far more impressive in both the amount of notable covers that have been released and the roster of talent covering the song.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay, crazy guess based off of a single line and some of your clues:

The four tops, "I can't help myself (sugar pie, honey bunch)"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The four tops, “I can’t help myself (sugar pie, honey bunch)

A good guess (and a bop)! The song however was "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (1941) and was guessed by someone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sorry, no. Here's a hint: your song was written by one person, my song was written by four people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Girl On Fire by Alicia Keys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, no. Here's a hint: the version of your song that is the most widely known is performed by the lead songwriter of the song; the songwriters of my song did not record any notable release but is instead well known through several popular covers, one arguably more than others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I really wasn't expecting to be right, but I just guess that song because the chorus from that song popped in my head when I saw your image

I really like your style of hints 🙂 I hope you do more posts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Girl On Fire by Alicia Keys

It was a good guess and could definitely fit the lyrics of that song as well (also just have to mention that Alicia Keys' voice on it is amazing as always).

Thanks! In the old times I used to go to guessing game subreddits and it was like the rules and reply-to-comment-with-clue-but-don't-make-it-too-easy structure kicked back in after all this time. I'll definitely try to do more!