1:1 Lyrics > Image
A quick series of images created in Midjourney as placeholder content for developing the project page template.
Prompt Used:
Research Notes:
This series of images - 1:1 Lyrics > Image used some exact song lyrics as the image prompt in Midjourney V6.1. Some of the prompts were modified (truncated) to edit out repetitive choruses. The series demonstrates how the generated images have some direct links with the songs where the signifiers are quite obvious (eg. See image 0002: Duran Duran's Night Boat (1981), or image 0013 Midnight Oil's US Forces (1982) for example. There were some strange correlations between images and prompts when the lyrics were more poetic or abstract.
Further experimentaion is warranted to generate data that could become more empirically relevant by slowly truncating the lyrics in conjunction with Midjourney's 'shorten' command to systematically analyse each prompt for relevance of the tokens being used tthat generate the image.
The experiment is not novel and has been done elsewhere but is a fun creative activity to 'see what you get'.
I also note that I got blocked on several prompts - sexual innuendo is rife in pop and rock music lyrics and Midjourney seems determined to sniff out any PG13+ content and refuse to respond. This series as presented also gives some insight into my Spotify playlist at the time of this exercise.