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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

Playlist

Highlights

Winner
Brandon Nohara with 6 points
Scoring
14 scored submissions imported

Submissions

  1. #16 pointsReturning

    The machines provide a summary of tomorrow's activities

  2. No More TearsOzzy OsbourneSubmitted by Taylor Kayatta
    T25 pointsFirst-time
  3. If I Had a HeartFever RaySubmitted by Brandon Nohara
    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

  4. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)Emily BrowningSubmitted by Yorick
    T25 pointsFirst-time

    Such a good version. It starts nice and slow but builds up like a noisy... machine? Sweet dreams!

  5. 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.

  6. Avril 14thAphex TwinSubmitted by lainey3eb
    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.

  7. DriftingEnyaSubmitted by lainey3eb
    T34 pointsFirst-time

    Serotonin levels: optimal flow. Emotional state: compliant. REM sequence: initiated. Sweet dreams, my carbon based lifeforms

  8. Look What You Made Me DoTaylor SwiftSubmitted by Michael Sugar
    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.

  9. Never Gonna Give You UpRick AstleySubmitted by Jason
    T34 pointsReturning

    The machines could never give us up.

  10. Never Let You Go - 2008 RemasterThird Eye BlindSubmitted by Zach
    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.

  11. Vanilla TwilightOwl CitySubmitted by Taylor Kayatta
    T43 pointsFirst-time
  12. Chesterfields and AftershaveDropkick MurphysSubmitted by Michael Sugar
    T43 pointsFirst-time

    Hopefully the machine overlords would allow us to drift off to happy memories of growing up.

  13. The Lazy SongBruno MarsSubmitted by Zach
    T43 pointsFirst-time
  14. You Asked for ItEmmureSubmitted by Yorick
    #51 pointsFirst-time

    A joke song made by the band because fans asked for. Now, get back to work!