Re the Indie lyric meme I completed a while ago, I’ve made my own program to simulate the process.

The Ivory Towers Random Indie Lyric Generator

How does it work?

I split some quotes I found at quotationspage.com into two parts and put them into two arrays. The program randomly chooses one from each and puts them together. To increase the possibilities, I took out all the abstract and common nouns, replacing them a randomly chosen possibility from another set of arrays. So effectively a random sentence structure is filled out with random content. As you can imagine, the lyrics that come out of it don’t make all that much sense, although sometimes it comes out with classics like “the problem with life is cockroaches listening to a barber shop quartet.”

On the one hand it’s great that insightful Indie lyrics are so easy to produce, but it’s also slightly depressing for those of us who spend several hours writing only to be beaten by a stupid javascript app.

I’m going to add more sentence structures and content arrays, so keep checking for updates. Eventually, I hope to make it customisable so users can contribute their own content to it.