[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":79},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post:en:how-to-write-a-prompt-for-an-ai-song-generator":3},{"post":4,"langs":14,"more":57,"occasion":78},{"slug":5,"lang":6,"title":7,"description":8,"date":9,"template":10,"coverUrl":11,"minutes":12,"html":13},"how-to-write-a-prompt-for-an-ai-song-generator","en","How to write a prompt for an AI song generator that actually sounds like you","The anatomy of a great song prompt — who, what happened, how it feels, and one detail nobody else would know — with before-and-after examples.","2026-09-20","love","https:\u002F\u002Ffirebasestorage.googleapis.com\u002Fv0\u002Fb\u002Fbag-ai-music.firebasestorage.app\u002Fo\u002Ftemplates%2Flove.jpg?alt=media&token=2f31d9e6-950e-42e1-86ba-83b9f17c30fb",3,"\u003Cp>Two people ask an AI for "a love song". One gets something that sounds like hold music. The other gets a song their partner asks to hear again. The model was the same; the prompt wasn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A song prompt is not a search query. It is a brief — the few sentences you would give a songwriter over coffee. Here's how to write one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>The four parts of a good song prompt\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Ch3>1. Who it is for\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\u003Cp>A name does more work than any adjective. "A love song for Sarah" is already more personal than "a romantic ballad". If it isn't for a person, say what it is for: a road trip, a wedding entrance, a workout playlist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch3>2. What happened\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\u003Cp>Songs are stories. Give it one moment it can build around:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>"We met in the rain outside a bookshop in Paris."\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>"She moved across the world for her job and we did two years long-distance."\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>"We've been friends since we got detention together in year seven."\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch3>3. How it should feel\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\u003Cp>Mood words steer everything — melody, tempo, how the vocal is delivered. Be precise: \u003Cem>warm and intimate\u003C\u002Fem> is different from \u003Cem>epic and triumphant\u003C\u002Fem>, and \u003Cem>bittersweet\u003C\u002Fem> is different from \u003Cem>sad\u003C\u002Fem>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch3>4. The detail nobody else would know\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\u003Cp>This is what makes someone stop and say "how did it know that?". A nickname, a habit, a private joke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cblockquote>\n\u003Cp>The thing I love most is how she laughs at her own jokes before the punchline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\u003Cp>That line became the title of one of our example songs: \u003Cem>Laugh Before The Punchline\u003C\u002Fem>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Before and after\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Before:\u003C\u002Fstrong> "A happy song about my dog."\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>After:\u003C\u002Fstrong> "A warm, funny song about my cat named Mochi. The daft thing she always does: steals one sock from every pair and hides it under the sofa. Playful, light, full of love."\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second one gives the model a character, a running joke and a tone. It wrote a chorus about the socks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Styles: be specific, but don't over-engineer\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Pick a genre and one or two texture words: "acoustic, fingerpicked guitar, soft female vocals" or "synthwave, retro 80s synths, dreamy". You don't need to describe chord progressions or BPM. Two or three strong words beat a paragraph of music theory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>What to avoid\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Asking for a specific famous artist's style by name.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Music models are designed to refuse imitating real artists. Describe the sound instead: "raspy male vocal, stadium rock chorus" rather than a name.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Contradictions.\u003C\u002Fstrong> "Slow, quiet, and a huge festival drop" will confuse any composer, human or not.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Walls of text.\u003C\u002Fstrong> A few vivid sentences beat a page of instructions. If you have exact words in mind, write lyrics instead of a prompt.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch2>When to write your own lyrics instead\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>If you already know what you want sung, switch to \u003Cstrong>your own lyrics\u003C\u002Fstrong> and paste them in. Mark the structure with tags like \u003Ccode>[Verse]\u003C\u002Fcode>, \u003Ccode>[Chorus]\u003C\u002Fcode> and \u003Ccode>[Bridge]\u003C\u002Fcode> and the song will follow it. You still choose the style, the voice and the language.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>A template you can copy\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cblockquote>\n\u003Cp>A [mood] song for [name], about [one moment]. The thing I love most about them is [a detail]. Make it [feeling], and [one instruction — put their name in the chorus, end on a hopeful note, keep it short].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\u003Cp>Fill in the brackets, pick a style, and press create. 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