[Verse 1: male lead, angular new-wave delivery; female backing vocals answer in clipped unison] [Spoken female computer voice] “Warning: Unassisted human creativity has been detected.” Too smart to be human, [Female backing vocals: “Ooh-ooh—too smart!”] Too strange to be real— [Female backing vocals: “Ooh-ooh—not real!”] You asked your machine To decide what I feel. [Female backing vocals, deadpan: “Ask the machine!”] I wrote it, I meant it, [Female backing vocals: “Ooh—she meant it!”] It came from my mind— [Female backing vocals: “Her own mind!”] Now talent’s suspicious In the automated kind. [Female backing vocals, whispered over an eerie sustained “ooh”: “Suspicious…”] [Verse 2] You asked AI If I used AI— It gave you an answer, So that settled it, right? You let it do your thinking, Then questioned mine— If the machine can’t explain me, I must be artificial by design! [Chorus: male lead with bright female trio echoes; sustained female “oohs” rise behind the lead] Too smart to be human, [Female trio: “Ooh-ooh-ooh—too smart to be human!”] It must be the machine [Female trio, sweet sarcastic harmony: “Ooh—the machine!”] That can write all the verses And say what you mean. [Female backing vocals: “Ooh-ooh—say what you mean!”] Too smart to be human, [Female trio: “Ooh-ooh—too smart!”] It must be AI— [Female trio, rising harmony: “Ooh—A-I! A-I!”] No one could possibly Be that creative— [Female trio: sustained rising “Ooooooooh…”] [Male lead, spoken] Right? [Female trio, explosive shout] WRONG! [Breakdown: male lead commands; female voices repeat each command like an absurd verification panel] [Male lead, shouted] PROVE YOU’RE HUMAN! [Female backing vocals] “Ooh-ooh—PROVE IT!” Write a bad line! [Female voices: “BAD LINE!”] Miss every rhyme! [Female voices: “NO RHYME!”] Lose the beat! [Female voices: “LOST IT!”] Waste some time! [Female voices: “TICK-TOCK!”] Make it boring! [Female voices: “Ooh—BORING!”] Make it bland! [Female voices: “Ooh-ooh—SO BLAND!”] Then they’ll know It came from your hand! [Female trio, falsely cheerful with a bright “ooh-ooh!”] “CERTIFIED HUMAN!” [Brief eerie female “Ooooooooh…”] [Spoken female voice: cool, mechanical] Creativity level: suspicious. [Female group, shouted] SUSPICIOUS! [Brief rising female “Ooh-ooh-ooh…”] [Spoken female voice] Original thought detected. [Female group] REJECTED! [Female trio: sustained suspenseful “Ooooooooh…”] [Spoken female voice] Human certification— [Female group, rising scream] DENIED! [Final chorus: male lead; female trio louder and more chaotic with every response; continuous rhythmic “ooh-oohs” underneath] Too smart to be human, [Female trio: “Ooh-ooh—TOO SMART!”] It must be the machine [Female trio: “Ooh—BLAME THE MACHINE!”] That can write all the verses And say what you mean. [Female trio: “Ooh-ooh—WE KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!”] Too smart to be human, It must be AI— [Female trio, overlapping: “Ooh-ooh—A-I! A-I! A-I!”] No one could possibly Be that creative— [Female trio: long rising “Ooooooooooh…”] [Sudden stop] [Male lead, spoken] Right? [Female trio, shouted] WRONG! [Outro: jerky guitar and bouncing bass; female voices alternate rhythmic “ooh-oohs” with increasingly frantic chants] [Female trio] Ooh-ooh! TOO SMART! Ooh-ooh! TOO STRANGE! Ooh-ooh! TOO REAL! Ooh-ooh! TOO HUMAN! [Female voices: long eerie “Ooooooooooh…”] [Spoken female machine voice] Correction: [All female voices] NOT HUMAN! [Female trio: final bright “Ooh-ooh!”]
