Blue Jeans & Bloody Tears In May 2019, Tel Aviv hosted the 64th Eurovision song contest for the 4th time. As all of Europe (together with Israel and Australia) waited for this year’s oh-so-glamorous and famously kitschy song contest, a group of artists, musicians and programmers have asked themselves is there a special DNA for a Eurovision song? What makes it a hit or a flop? What makes it memorable? And What makes it a winner? We decided to explore human creativity through technological innovation by creating an Artificial Intelligence Eurovision song that celebrates this melodramatic & campy song competition. 

The project team fed hundreds of Eurovision songs – melodies and lyrics – into a neuron network. Then, algorithms produced thousands of new tunes and lines of verse, from which a few musical units – a chorus, a verse and a c-part were carefully selected and “welded” into a song. The result – a Eurovision song that comprised entirely of material written and composed by Artificial Intelligence. Titled “Blue Jeans & Bloody Tears“, the song is a hilarious, weird and catchy duet on disillusioned love between man and machine. For the “man” role we casted none other than legendary singer Izhar Cohen – Israel’s first Eurovision winner (1978) and to musically produce it we reached out to Avshalom Ariel – who co-produced Israel’s most recent Eurovision win (“Toy”, 2018). 

Within hours and without any paid promotion the video reached dozens of global and local media outlets celebrating our song; From podcasts and radio stations playing it, to TV stations, magazines and newspapers loving it – or loving to hate it. Reddit users debated their favorite line in countless threads, Youtubers covered the song, fans wrote down the chords progression and most of all people analyze the song lyrics looking for hidden meanings. Not only were the accolades tremendos, the song surpassed official Eurovision entries from countries like Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and the United Kingdom making our song the unofficial anthem of 2019! Lyrics: I am lost when i’m with you There’s no hesitation in your eyes Baby bye bye bye Oh bye bye bye Baby by myself the stain grows more obvious In this pain of the bird who’s flying Over roses of sadness Baby bye bye bye Oh bye bye bye Baby summer’s gone It’s gone for the both of us And tears will always have wet eyes I’ll cry but I’ll survive On a mission I will let you go forever Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears There’s no life without your life in misery Blue jeans and bloody tears Don’t give up on a precious summer Rolling in the moonshine Baby by bye-bye Oh by bye-bye Baby let me go So close to the holy ground Tears will always have wet eyes I’ll cry but I’ll survive On a mission I will let you go forever Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears There’s no life without your life in misery Blue jeans and bloody tears Don’t break my heart – It’s powerless This magic is in spite of me Don’t keep me hanging on Don’t break my heart – It’s powerless This magic is in spite of me Don’t keep me hanging on keep me hanging on keep me hanging on I will let you go forever Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears There’s no life without your life in misery Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears There’s no life without your life in misery Blue jeans and bloody tears Concept and Creative direction by Nimrod (Nim) Shapira (nimshap.com) Construction and Production by Allenby Concept House (allenby.co.il) Co-produced by Nimrod (Nim) Shapira Song production: Song Curation by Amir Shoenfeld Song Production by Avshalom Ariel Additional song curation by Ben Scheflan, Nim Shapira, Avshalom Ariel and Eran Hadas Background vocals by Avshalom Ariel and Ben Scheflan Mix by Omer Schonberger Mastering by Jonathan Jacobi Recorded at Jaffa Sound Arts Music video team: Directed by Karni and Saul @ Sulkybunny (sulkybunny.com) Title design by Adam Blufarb Illustrations by Eliran Bichman Deep Learning team: Lyrics generation by Eran Hadas AI and ML Team: Oracle Innovation and Oracle Cloud Asaf Sobol – Senior Business Development leader, Oracle Israel Andy Welch – Innovation engineer, Lead data scientist, Oracle UK Asaf Lev – Senior Innovation engineer, Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel David Cottee – Senior Director of Innovation, Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel Midi conversion and Music consultation by Micha Gilad Additional Midi conversion by Ann Streichman Legal consultancy: Attorneys Sally Gillis and Shirley Gal from Eitan, Mehulal, Sadot. Public relations: POSITIVE Communications Yuval Haring Special thanks to Oracle EMEA PR team Making of team: Directed and Edited by Nitay Dagan Cinematography by Stephan Stelman and Omri Dagan