1-900-Hotdog Anime Theme Featuring Grimes (Patreon)

Greetings, everyone. We've got something a little fun and weird for you today. Come, walk with us.

Our story begins with musical artist and Elon Musk ex-girlfriend Grimes. Earlier this year, she unveiled software called Elf.Tech, which allows users to submit vocals and have them reproduced by Grimes using AI. If approved, users will have an official Grimes collaboration and Grimes will get 50% of the profits.

Craven, always interested in pushing the limits of new tech, wanted to try it out. He submitted a few songs -some Auralnuats stuff, some other original pieces- but he wasn't thrilled with the results (the Last Laser Master was particularly horrific).

Except for one.

A little while ago, we composed and produced an anime style theme song for our friends over at 1-900-Hotdog. If you're unfamiliar, we've produced a few different songs for their podcast based on various themes. They wanted something evocative of anime opening credits, so we created a bubbly song about friendship and processed meats.

Fast forward to now, where the arbiters of the Grimes AI have approved our collaboration, so now we have a track about hot dog magic sung by Grimes in perfect Japanese. The future is now.

To take it a step further, we reached out to some video producers to whip up an AI generated anime style music video to go with it. And it's.......wow.

We know there's still a lot of work to be done regarding AI's place in the art world, but for now we're doing our best to use it for purposes as harmless and fun as possible. We hope you enjoy it. Music download to follow soon, and big thanks to our very own Scott B for his always outstanding guitar and bass work!

Love,

Craven + Zak