[💭] Without Music, Life Would Be a Mistake. (feat. Love Your Soul)

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Without music, life would be a mistake. ㅡ From Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols. It is a famous Nietzsche line, and this year I have found myself especially agreeing with it.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223894460024
• Naver published at: 2025/06/10 12:57 KST
• Original category: Reflections

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

ㅡ From Friedrich Nietzsche’s

It is a famous Nietzsche line, and this year I have found myself especially agreeing with it.

Since long ago, rather than singing songs myself, I have strongly preferred putting lyricless, melody-centered music in the background while walking or riding a bicycle and getting drunk on that atmosphere.

But a few months ago, because I became too rushed by AI’s rapid progress, I had a sudden overreaction like, “Wouldn’t it be much better to listen to JoCoding AI News instead of spending time listening to music?” As a result, buried under “efficiency,” “music” disappeared from my life.

Looking back at myself then… it is a little scary. It feels like it was the process of my humanity gradually disappearing?

One day, while I was becoming an efficiency-obsessed person with no humanity like that, I heard that the V4 model had appeared in Suno AI, a music composition AI.

I had been interested in composing since long ago, and had even dreamed of becoming a composer, so after a long time I began making music through Suno AI.

But then…

I was so worn out and struggling, and I do not even know how I came to want to write those lyrics, but lyrics of healing and comfort just came to mind. (Of course, I got help from GPT, but the “main” lyricist was me.)

After writing all the lyrics, I mixed together various composition-style prompts that seemed to fit the lyrics.

Now that both the lyrics and prompt were done, I was generating randomly…

One song was generated.

And as soon as I heard that song, tears suddenly poured out from the beginning.

It was a song I made(?), but… it was just so moving.

I felt so bitter that because I had recently been measuring only efficiency, I had forgotten this kind of emotion…

I could not be the only one to feel this emotion.

While I was at it, I wanted to challenge the bucket-list item I had written down long ago: “Release a song and set it as my KakaoTalk profile music.”

So I immediately started making an album cover using GPT.

After about 30 minutes of wrestling, a very excellent cover image was generated.

Now everything was fully prepared.

I immediately contacted all kinds of music distribution platforms.

But maybe because the song was made with AI? I was rejected by four or five places.

I thought about giving up after repeated rejection… but still kept trying.

Then eventually a place called MuzePlatform accepted my song, and I completed a free release application under the condition that their commission would be 20% of the song’s revenue.

And finally, on May 27, 2025.

The digital single album ‘Love Your Soul’ was released.

I cannot even describe how moved I was on the day it was released.

The song I made and was moved by was playing from my KakaoTalk profile background music… I felt like I would collapse from dopamine addiction.

I was so excited that I even made a lyric video, uploaded it to YouTube, and watched it myself while humming and singing along.

Of course, because it was a female vocal song, I had to use a Chrome plugin to lower the key…

Even though I cannot sing well, singing it myself returned the emotion doubled, and the emotion I felt when I first heard the song kept coming back.

(Thinking about it suddenly, this is the only song I have sung out loud this year.)

The experience of enjoying myself while singing a song I made myself.

This precious experience will become an unforgettable experience for my whole life, one that shook my values about music.