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As Europe (together with Australia and Israel) are glued to their TV sets watching the 64th Eurovision song competition, we asked ourselves What makes a Eurovision song memorable? does a Eurovision hit have special DNA? We are a group of artists, musicians and programmers that wanted explore human creativity and challenge it. We have created a Eurovision AI song that celebrates Eurovision – its melodrama, kitsch and camp, its humor and its gimmicks. The result is comprised entirely of material written and composed by Artificial Intelligence, titled “Blue Jeans & Bloody Tears“. The project team fed hundreds of Eurovision songs – melodies and lyrics – into a neuron network. Then, algorithms produced thousands of new tunes and lines of verse, from which a few musical units were carefully selected and “welded” into a song. We hope this song will become the Eurovision unofficial anthem of Eurovision 2019. A duet on disillusioned love between Izhar Cohen (Israel's first Eurovision winner, 1978) and a computer, written and composed by a computer. The song was produced by Avshalom Ariel - one of the creators of TOY (Eurovision song winner, 2018) Lyrics: I am lost when i’m with you There’s no hesitation in your eyes Baby bye bye bye Oh bye bye bye Baby by myself the stain grows more obvious In this pain of the bird who’s flying Over roses of sadness Baby bye bye bye Oh bye bye bye Baby summer’s gone It’s gone for the both of us And tears will always have wet eyes I’ll cry but I'll survive On a mission I will let you go forever Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears There’s no life without your life in misery Blue jeans and bloody tears Don’t give up on a precious summer Rolling in the moonshine Baby by bye-bye Oh by bye-bye Baby let me go So close to the holy ground Tears will always have wet eyes I’ll cry but I'll survive On a mission I will let you go forever Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears There’s no life without your life in misery Blue jeans and bloody tears Don’t break my heart - It’s powerless This magic is in spite of me Don’t keep me hanging on Don’t break my heart - It’s powerless This magic is in spite of me Don’t keep me hanging on keep me hanging on keep me hanging on I will let you go forever Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears There’s no life without your life in misery Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears Blue jeans and bloody tears There’s no life without your life in misery Blue jeans and bloody tears Concept and Creative direction by Nimrod (Nim) Shapira () Construction and Production by Allenby Concept House () Co-produced by Nimrod (Nim) Shapira Song production: Song Curation by Amir Shoenfeld Song Production by Avshalom Ariel Additional song curation by Ben Scheflan, Nim Shapira, Avshalom Ariel and Eran Hadas Background vocals by Avshalom Ariel and Ben Scheflan Mix by Omer Schonberger Mastering by Jonathan Jacobi Recorded at Jaffa Sound Arts Music video team: Directed by Karni and Saul @ Sulkybunny () Title design by Adam Blufarb Illustrations by Eliran Bichman Deep Learning team: Lyrics generation by Eran Hadas AI and ML Team: Oracle Innovation and Oracle Cloud Asaf Sobol - Senior Business Development leader, Oracle Israel Andy Welch - Innovation engineer, Lead data scientist, Oracle UK Asaf Lev - Senior Innovation engineer, Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel David Cottee - Senior Director of Innovation, Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel Midi conversion and Music consultation by Micha Gilad Additional Midi conversion by Ann Streichman Legal consultancy: Attorneys Sally Gillis and Shirley Gal from Eitan, Mehulal, Sadot. Public relations: POSITIVE Communications Yuval Haring Special thanks to Oracle EMEA PR team Making of team: Directed and Edited by Nitay Dagan Cinematography by Stephan Stelman and Omri Dagan Special Thanks: Ronen Harten, Nadav Hekselman, Elad Zakai, Eyal Linur, Roy Kafri, Lior Zalmanson, Shine Horovits, Tamir Leibovich, Mysh Rozanov, Sagi James Shahar, Gal Shaya, Tamar Scheflan, Vico Shaharabani, Aner Baruch, Omri Anghel, Ran Menachem, Eran-Shushu Spanier, Udi Ben-Arie, Cheli Menashe, Roy Hollander, Oren Solo, Einat Hirsch, Bella Faylayev, Nirit Green, Alessandro Zanoni, Baruch and Tehila Shapira, Efrat and Itay Gdor, Yuval Shapira and Yaara Gdor
