u/RetroRuminator

I mainly use Suno for fun, not intending to create anything to publish or share, just some music in styles I enjoy.

I've been trying to create a blues song but even when I explicitly use this term in the prompt, and variants like Chicago blues or Delta blues, it always comes out as country music with vocals having a distinct Nashville twang. If it had sounded like Stevie Ray Vaughan I wouldn't have been unhappy, I even tried specifying electric blues and Texas blues to see if it would. But nope, it keeps giving me Steve Earle. Or if I specify female vocals, something pretty damn close to Dolly Parton.

Any suggestions?

It surprises me that I'm having so much trouble with blues, as I've been happy with the results for other genres.

I mainly use Suno for fun, not intending to create anything to publish or share, just some music in styles I enjoy.

I've been trying to create a blues song but even when I explicitly use this term in the prompt, and variants like Chicago blues or Delta blues, it always comes out as country music with vocals having a distinct Nashville twang. If it had sounded like Stevie Ray Vaughan I wouldn't have been unhappy, I even tried specifying electric blues and Texas blues to see if it would. But nope, it keeps giving me Steve Earle. Or if I specify female vocals, something pretty damn close to Dolly Parton.

Any suggestions?

Been binge re-watching For All Mankind and been thinking about some of the non-space events in the alternate timeline and what flow-on implications this could have.

• The Vietnam War ends in 1970. There would be fewer veterans, fewer with PTSD and the stereotype of the neglected Vietnam vet may be less prominent. The effect on popular culture could mean no Apocalypse Now, no First Blood/Rambo franchise, no Born In The USA and films like Top Gun could have palatable to Hollywood a decade earlier (which in turn means Tom Cruise and Kenny Loggins have very different career paths). If Vietnam itself ended up divided, it could be like the Koreas.
• Three Mile Island avoids meltdown. Instead of becoming politically controversial, there could be more widespread adoption of nuclear power. Environmental movements could become less anti-nuclear and more anti-coal/oil, somewhat linked to the next point.
• Electric vehicles are widely available by the early 1980s. The oil industry is in decline by the 1990s in FAM. Somewhat linked to the previous point.
• John Lennon survives an assassination attempt in 1980, a Beatles reunion in 1987 and Lennon performs at Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002. I'd like to think there could have been a Beatles reunion for Live Aid, probably the only thing that could have upstaged Queen.
• Pope John Paul II is assassinated in 1981. He played a major role in supporting Polish opposition movements. Although not explored in the series, it's possible this is part of the butterfly effect that leads to Communist governments lasting longer.
• Y2K resulted in massive computer outages. I find this one a little hard to believe when the FAM timeline saw a lot more technology from the space program flow into other applications, including much more rapidly advancing computer technology. In the alternate history, there is already widespread adoption of consumer mobile devices equivalent to the iPhone/iPad (although slightly chunkier) and social media by the early 2000s.