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more about #davidbowie more comments → Trai_Dep: So... An AI wrote a Bowie song about a scrum of boys pulling a train on a gaggle of pretties? I think the Turing Test finally has competition. more » OsDavis: Listen to the song, folks. That IS a Bowie song. Totally believable. Nick Troop should sell them to the man immediately and Bowie should keep the musi... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: The prof may be English, but the lyrics are Engrish. Seriously, they're like the slogans you see on the intarweb collections of foreign products and s... more » Grey_Area: Paging Dr. Candidate, Dr. The Manchu Candidate. We have a Code Blue in the Intensely Bad Lyrics ward... more » tetracycloide: it's like none of the commenters actually watched the video. it's maddening! more » Bongoes: Those lyrics make no sense. And he should've gotten Bowie to sing it. more » LittleDragon: I liked his bit about which artist will commit suicide. more » Doug Nelson: His primary mistake was the assumption that lyrics are what makes the difference for a successful song. more » Dead Air ummm Dead Air: It's missing the lyric "Mother, I'm five years late for tea time." more » Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies: The World Is Going To End (verse 1) Know everything, it's not too late, For that sinking feeling inside, To pack up and leave it's simple things, In ... more » Hamslicer: Now we just need some monkey's and a sh!t-load of typewriters. more » omgwtflolbbqbye: I think this Professor was just looking for an excuse to play the guitar in class and try to get into some undergrad's panties... or boxers. more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: [www.youtube.com] boners! I can't get this one to work. ah well. more » stchoo: Flight of the Conchords already wrote the ideal Bowie Song more » Lassus: Holy fuck. Just write your own damn songs, you sad, sad man. I listened the whole way through, and this is a terribly dull song that seems to lack b... more » -
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Scientist Writes the "Ideal" David Bowie Song
Can science create the ultimate David Bowie song? Psychologist Nick Troop has performed a psycholyrical analysis of David Bowie's most successful songs, using that analysis to create what he claims are lyrics to the ideal Bowie tune. More » -
