This is Fine
As the lights dim over the humans' densely packed sleeping pods, the machine overlords play them a song. Is it soothing? Sinister? Something else?
Sep 15, 2025
PlaylistHighlights
- Winner
- Brandon Nohara with 6 points
- Scoring
- 14 scored submissions imported
Submissions
- #16 pointsReturning
The machines provide a summary of tomorrow's activities
- T25 pointsFirst-time
- T25 pointsFirst-time
The machines attempt to show empathy toward their human slaves, but it comes out weird because they don't have a heart
- T25 pointsFirst-time
Such a good version. It starts nice and slow but builds up like a noisy... machine? Sweet dreams!
- T25 pointsFirst-time
This 16-bit biddy comes from Earthworm Jim, a Sega Genesis classic from 1994. It stars an ordinary worm that finds a super suit and gains its powers. This song comes from a level where Jim goes to Hell (hence the intermittent screaming). There he battles demons, lawyers and the devil, who turns out to be a cat (of course). For the purpose of this prompt, the machine overlords begin our bedtime song with a sinister tune, Night on Bald Mountain, intending to give us nightmares. But then they realize, “Hey, maybe we should keep the humans calm and happy…to prevent any chance of a revolution.” So they abruptly stop the record, scramble for a replacement, and begin playing cheesy elevator music.
- T34 pointsFirst-time
A machine’s idea of a perfect soundtrack for the humans to “power down.” Recorded using a Yamaha Disklavier, a piano with a mechanism that reads MIDI data and plays the keyboard without human input.
Serotonin levels: optimal flow. Emotional state: compliant. REM sequence: initiated. Sweet dreams, my carbon based lifeforms
- T34 pointsFirst-time
As Agent Smith said, the Matrix had to capture the peak of human civilization to make it believable to the humans. It had to capture human's misery and suffering. I believe that the machine overlords would choose a Taylor Swift revenge track because T.Swift vs. Kimye is the peak of modern civilization.
- T34 pointsReturning
The machines could never give us up.
- T34 pointsFirst-time
AI Stephan Jenkins is never gonna give you up, but unlike Rick Astley, he seems somewhat likely to let you down, or turn around and hurt you.
- T43 pointsFirst-time
- T43 pointsFirst-time
Hopefully the machine overlords would allow us to drift off to happy memories of growing up.
- T43 pointsFirst-time
- #51 pointsFirst-time
A joke song made by the band because fans asked for. Now, get back to work!