Legacy of Lyrics: From The Verbasizer to AI

This paper and project is to examine the capacities of lyric generation of a few different AI systems. It stems from David Bowies original use of the Verbasizer to help with his lyric creation and curation to test whether these AI systems can similarly generate lyrics based on otherwise incomprehensible prompts. While further also examining the importance of song lyrics and their creation as well as diversity amongst lyrics and styles.