There's no free ride to the kitchen. A pickleball song, straight from the dark side.

So after months of crying and complaining about Ai I recently read an article which told me I was going to have to join them to beat them. It was from a musician/producer who was apologizing profusely for using Ai, but (hear me out) was making his case for it at the same time. Which is what I'm (sorta) doing. I will tell you something, I've seen how it can improve things, when done well, so I gave it a dance, and it was fun. I took a light stab at a basic program who's ads I saw where it seemed to work for musicians (because the ads for them were by producers and musicians sitting with instruments), so I had a quick look into one, and I started with a song idea based on some lyrics I have been working on ever since I made this guy into track pants....

I created this guy and gave him his mantra after watching a PPA match and hearing the announcers say it.

I once heard on a PPA tour stream the announcer (sorry guys I forget who said it but either Adam or Dave) said: "There's no free ride to the kitchen" and it really stuck with me. When things get to me, they simply have to come out in some way, and ever since I have ALWAYS heard this line as a song, I have always been playing with lyrics for it. I even have been bashing out some chords and melodies and so my collaborations with SUNO ai was easy as I already had a place to go in my head, I just needed 'help' to get there.

I generated about 6 different options and chose to work on the one that had the same cadence as my scratch recordings, I tweaked a few things but I did NOT work on it very long at all as it came kind of pre loaded with my lyrics. The lyrics took months however, and so having them, I almost felt like I walked into a songwriting session with a human who is better than me, collaborating my ideas and making a song out of it.

Same as with my real life producers and collaborators, I brought a skeleton of a song idea (see a demo) and they fleshed it out properly with their skills and knowledge, and we found and recorded the right musicians who brought their cool vibes to the tunes. (see a produced song) And all that was EPIC, but also expensive. I still get paid pennies for those songs but I paid hundreds sometimes thousands to produce them (and I got smoking deals from incredible friends). That's just the reality of the music economy. And I'm no longer in that world (except for socially) so I don't even have access to tools, space or musicians who have time to play around with pickleball songs. But what I DO want access to, is a way to share songs that are downloadable, so people can share and play my pickleball songs (which they can't really do with my You Tube/Instagram videos) and I had this inkling that this ai format was going to easily enable me to upload something to a place where it can be streamed.

And it did.

That's my reality as much as it is an excuse.

So, to now stop making excuses, I'll share this little ditty by Pickleball ART, my ai guy.

No Free Ride to the KITCHEN

And I do NOT belong to SUNO AI in any way, I used it to make one song, so far.  I am so sorry to my musical brethren. I know it’s a wild leap to play with this stuff but I’m clearly in my ; if you can’t beat em join em, era.

I definitely can’t beat em.

I will be adding this AI collab Pickleball song “No Free Ride to the Kitchen” to my live music playlist at least, and will be actually performing it.

And I will likely do this again, I am so sorry, if you hate me I accept that. I still admire you. Rachael