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Never Said I Was Nice

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By Sara WilsonPublished 2 months ago Updated 2 months ago 3 min read
Look! A real art made by my own human hands!

It must be exhausting, honestly, to be the type of person who tries so hard to convince yourself that real effort and work is fake just so you don't have to face reality.

I've been accused of being AI. 🤭

I wanna talk about what actually goes into my work, since the concept of ... ya know... "doing the work" seems foreign to people. My sound doesn't pop out of a generator with a button click. It's built, layer by layer, from the ground up.

It starts right here in a real studio, not in a prompt box.

I know, she's cute, huh?

I'm singing my own hand written lyrics at my physical mic stand, sitting at a mini lab, mapping out progressions, dialing in every exact echo, delay, and reverb tail until the atmosphere feels right to me. I'm stacking my own HUMAN vocal layers. Harmonies, adlibs, textures, melodies... to build a wall of sound that feels good.

Holy shit! Real hand writing on a real page!

Then I'm taking my raw vocals to Capcut and editing them together to create the full raw vocals into multiple layers that I can take to Bandlab where I get to add some fun FX to my mix (echo, old stereo, old telephone, sparkle). My music takes hours. Days. Some have even taken years.

A shiny fresh DAW from Bandlabs

It's tedious and methodical and takes actual skill, real gear, and YEARS of practice.

If seeing someone run a full scale studio operation, engineer their own tracks, and try every day to perfect their craft makes you uncomfortable enough to start writing fan fiction about me... it sounds like a you problem.

Enjoy the following videos of me singing in my studio and in front of an old webcam... and take notes if you need to.

That makeup look was 🔥 and also done with my own human hands.

All of these videos are old and one was filmed with a webcam. I have learned how to edit and do all kinds of things using Capcut editor (the free version no less). All of this was learned from my early days in Windows Movie Maker. Wanna see that? Here's a super dorky video I made when I was learning to use Window's Movie Maker in like 2012-

These dorky ass videos were often requested by people on a site called Fubar. I also coded webpages back then with actual HTML and still do when requested. I also made gifs for peoples mafia toons and profiles. All with talent, and not AI. AI wasn't even a thing back then. Here, have another one for good measure. You're welcome.

But yeah.. the makeup. That's probably AI too. Yep. Totally.

And please, while you're here- enjoy this totally AI stop motion ad for my AI generated bath bombs.

Followed by my AI generated handmade dolls

If you want to know something about me, maybe ask instead of just assuming you know the answers behind everyone's life. It's weird that people project their own shit on to people they don't even know. I usually keep my mouth shut when I see something I disagree with... but I just find it really rude and unnecessary that someone I don't even know can't stop being an enormous bully to me. Leave me alone. Go find a new hobby. If you're such a happy person, then go bask in all your self proclaimed under appreciated talents, I don't care. Just stay away from me.

I'm too busy being a whimsical busy bitch to ever reply to this type of nonsense again. K bye!

-the "30 something anti AI girl you can't stand"

P.S.- I'm kinda fancying the idea of Vocal adding a blocked button within the next round of updates.

Or not... because thanks for the reads! 💕

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About the Creator

Sara Wilson

I love Ugly Things.

I try and be active AND interactive.

I write... whatever I feel.

Sometimes it's happy.. sometimes it isn't. But it's real. And it's me.

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    Written by Sara Wilson