Take on Meh

An AI song simulation (of "Paul McCartney" singing "Take on Me") worth a second listen! The wait is over, much sooner than I had expected.

Unlike many other song simulations, this one picks a song that the singer might actually sing, and renders the performance close enough to one way the real Paul McCartney might sing it that it demonstrates how strong of a vocalist McCartney can be. The simulation layers McCartney's voice and style over the pattern of Morton Hacket's original rendition of the song with a-ha, and the result rewards the listener, even though Hacket's pattern is a clear mismatch in several places for how McCartney would have actually sung the song (for example, the AI unnecessarily pinches the "Paul McCartney" voice to match Hacket's straining for high notes, even though "McCartney" is singing those same lyrics well within his range).

Even with that substantial constraint, the simulation entertains, and provides a pleasant platform for imagining how a real McCartney rendition of the song would sound.