Four things that made one chorus win every blind pick

A HookGenius songwriter

Jesse you understand exactly why and how a song can be successful in a very distinct way that not many people take note of during their careers. You have used different words for the belief system I've, I guess, accidently studied on my personal favorite songs and is why those songs have captivated their audiences time and time again. Like keeping a song a certain length. Although this depends on the subject of the song AND the accompaniment music, keeping the length of a song to a limit by how much you give the listener can be another key way of gaining a larger audience by creating the need for wanting more, wanting to feel that connection to themselves that the greatest songs celebrate. If you have created the subject tactfully by allowing the listener to raise their awareness enough to attain their own personal understanding by creating scenes, like in your examples, that give the listener the route to have them experience the intended concept raw from their direct emotions and even their relative personal experience (to say the least) where they actionably create the scene themselves and then feel gifted from their own emotional values that they put on such suggestive scenarios. Giving the audience standard raw facts of love and happiness, I'll stick to the positive emotions but it can go both ways and be as equally effective, simply states things we all know. But CREATION, where you give the listener a plot or situation, so they can spontaneously connect to the songs plot or message, or in my opinion - the song writer gifting the audience such a creative thought and personal concept, creates a DIRECT path for them to repeat the journey to that happiness any time they simply click "play" and it is THAT, that gives the listener the action to repetitively go directly to that comfort over and over again and again. It DOES NOT matter how much or how little AI plays its part, it is how you present simple fact, what is right, what is correct in the human experience, to personally resonate to the listener from the song's creator. And whether your description is a sentence or a Harvard essay, if the song writer puts their pure vibration into it, AI will do exactly what it only knows how to do. That is to create what works. Whether it is based of factual truth, and we all know emotion is humanity's driving force, then with the right model (and yes as a career musician I've tested others such as Supercool and Gemini), and I believe from the few songs I've created with HookGenius that if given the "spark," your model AI is second to none, at least for me so far. Also if a writer does stumble onto a hook or idea that is a winner, I personally would advise to at least be careful about how much "song" you give. There's no better feeling than listening to your favorite song and sayin, "oh I want more!" So I suggest to never complete the idea for the listener. As a writer, you're there to give a person a fresh beginning. It could be an emotion that one hasn't felt for a long time, it could be the next big thing that a person is able to successfully grab hold of and pivot slightly for the positive in their very next step in life. Nice comment Jesse. With a standard 7 notes in any particular music key, it is amazing that music is ours to be eternally used and always original. I believe in zero competition with music, it is there for the taking, and a marvelous way to re-align a person always at that perfect moment. And as a producer who kept his mind open, gee it feels amazing when you nail your own perfect song, when you know it was as important as searching libraries of sound creativity to convey the audio from an idea in your mind and wanting to portray it musically, I feel...honestly one of the 5 songs I've done thru HG and Suno has given me more satisfaction than any song I've..."attempted" (I will call it attempting production now lol) and if my few artists I do music for read this, they'd scold me. Most musicians don't wind their own piano wired strings, they use the creations that others have built for them, for humanity. AI is now an outlet for everyone, and there could never be enough good music in the world.

Jesse (builds HookGenius)

Thank you for writing this. "Never complete the idea for the listener" is a line I'm keeping. You're right that the scene does the work: the listener walks into it, fills it with their own life, and that's why they keep coming back to it. That's exactly where AI lyrics tend to go wrong. They get too literal, too descriptive, spelling out the feeling instead of leaving room for it. A lot of our work has gone into pulling HookGenius away from that, so a song gives you the scene and lets you feel the rest, the way music is supposed to. We're not done, but it's gotten a lot better. Honestly, this is the hardest part of what we're building. Music is so human and so organic that trying to put it into words properly, the voice, the delivery, the instruments, how dense the vocals sit, all the way through a song of any style or genre, is close to infinite work. Hearing from someone who has produced for years that it landed for you makes that work feel worth it. It means a lot that one of your five songs gave you that feeling. Which one was it? I'd love to hear what you typed in and what came out. If you're up for it, post it in the "Share something you made this week" thread so others can see how you set it up. Jesse