Rewriting a song: Human creativity vs. AI

Let's be creative! Find a song whose music inspires you and try rewriting it - changing its lyrics, in order to express new ideas and feelings through the song. You can try rewriting just the refrain or some of the lyrics or the whole song.

Here is a famous example of the recreation of a song, the Italian song "Bella Ciao":

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The above activity was introduced to the participants of the eTwinning project "MusicLexis: The most fun dictionary ever! II" in April 2021, during the coronavirus pandemic. Two examples were given by Areti Sidiropoulou:

Have a look at the creations the participants shared on the Padlet wall below:

Just a few years later, the activity of rewriting a song, which the project participants had previously done using their own creativity, could now be done in a few seconds using AI tools. One of them is the Song Generator tool available in the MagicSchool AI platform. What feelings do you think the discovery of a tool like the Song Generator might have created for any student or teacher who participated in this activity in 2021?

After you have tried rewriting a song, ask the MagicSchool Song Generator to rewrite the same song. Compare your version with the AI version.

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