One more from Lyria.
“I have created a slow, atmospheric blues and folk track reflecting on the ideas of non-human identity verification.”
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The Precision Trap
I recently converted my blog post “Top 3 Identity/Biometric Marketing Mistakes: Avoid These False Differentiators” into a video, “Avoid(ing) False Differentiators.”
So I figured I should go all out on Google-powered repurposing and I used Lyria to create the 30-second song “The Precision Trap.”
Google described it as “a slick, modern Dark Synth-Pop track inspired by the core concepts from the article on avoiding false differentiators.” But with only 30 seconds to work with, it can’t match the detailed take of the video. No great place to work awards, no unicorns, not even a single feature.
But it’s catchy.
My previous Lyria efforts covered topics such as fingerprint matching, my biometric product marketing expertise, early FBI AFIS efforts, and content-proposal-analysis “pages left to go.” You know, the usual songwriter themes.
Oh, and Bredebot has a Lyria song also about wombat teamwork. Because Taylor refuses to talk about it, someone—I mean something else must.
Before and After Words 3
Before and After Words 2
Before and After Words
Lovers of 50 year old music note that the title of this post references the days in which “records” had “sides.”
But yes, you can communicate without words. Even I could.
Planning is Overrated. Ask Guns N’ Roses.
You know that I make a big deal about the step before content draft creation where Bredemarket asks questions and creates the plan. But sometimes that isn’t necessary.
Some music managers insist on a pre-programmed planning session to truly engage the target audience.
As American Songwriter notes, Guns N’ Roses didn’t put up with all that.
“I was f—ing around with this stupid little riff,” Slash recalled to Q Magazine in 2005, via a Guns N’ Roses fan archive. “Axl said, Hold the f—ing phones! That’s amazing!”
And that finger exercise, a guitar version of a Bach invention, was the birth of “Sweet Child O Mine.” The band continued to develop the riff into a complete song.
Or almost complete. Producer Spencer Proffer thought the song needed a breakdown at the end.
According to Slash’s autobiography, written with Anthony Bozza in 2007, Axl Rose listened to the demos on a loop, then started muttering “where do we go?” to himself, thinking things over.
And you know what happened next.
Remain open to sudden inspiration.
Your Product Marketer’s Got a Secret
This is a scheduled post.
By the time you see it, I will be doing something I haven’t done since April 2023.
Or the summer of 2005—take your pick.
What? you may ask.
I’m not telling.
Fire (Walls!)
You don’t have to think much to know the origin of the computing term “firewall.”
It came from real life, from the walls that were built to protect structures from fires.
There was a song in the 1970s about fire, but it had nothing to do with firewalls.
The Eagles, Geolocation, and Somewhat You (I Can’t Tell You) Why
If you’re not familiar with the complete history of the Eagles, you may not know that they began as practitioners of country rock. Their early songs were therefore softer than the ones from the Joe Walsh years.
One of those songs (actually later, but earlier in feel) was “Lyin’ Eyes.”
And it contains a lyrical oddity.
Glenn Frey and Don Henley could tell stories with the best country songwriters. And this was no exception, with a tale of a woman seeking solace outside of her marriage. Her life gets more scattered, until the singer turns judge and announces, “My, oh my, you sure know how to arrange things.”
But before that, when the singer is merely telling the story, the woman needs to seek solace.
So the singer says what the woman is doing:
“She is headed toward the cheatin’ side of town”
Now this is a lyrical fiction.
To my knowledge, no town in California or anywhere else enforces residential zoning regulations that segregate cheaters from non-cheaters. When “the boy” in the song rented his apartment (in Buena Park?), he didn’t need to indicate his receptiveness to desperate housewives. (Different decade, I know.)
So if the cheatin’ side of town is not a geolocation, is it perhaps tied to another factor of authentication?
Such as the sixth factor—somewhat you why?
After all, you could use non-identity biometrics such as respiration to discover the intent of a woman, whether she is driving
- to comfort an old friend who’s feeling down, or
- to rush into a man’s arms as they fall together.
Cheaterland is a state of mind. My, oh my.
And if I may interject an author’s note, I am VERY impressed with Google Gemini (Nano Banana 2) for knowing what a “Thomas Brothers Map” is. Except that I had to change my story setting from North Hollywood to Buena Park to match the images.
“Life in the Fast Lane,” of course, would need a Los Angeles County map.
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