Podcast progress
May. 12th, 2024 07:25 pmI give my podcast episodes names based on what is in the episode, like "A Lady Leads The Band" for female big band leaders or "Yet Another Pop Punk Episode" for when I was really excited about pop punk (I still am, but I have focused less on downloading those songs). The problem that I find is that while all the songs sound good (or good enough) together, often at least one of them doesn't fit whatever theme I thought I was using. In the last episode, I had all different kinds of -wave songs (darkwave, chillwave, coldwave, etc), but one of the songs was dream pop. In this episode, I was going for a singer-songwriter/less electric feel than in some of the previous episodes. However, there were some clearly electric guitar bits in one of the songs. So, instead of just saying "Mostly X", I decided to ask ChatGPT. It, of course, puked up the most boring sounding titles imaginable. I gave it all the background info and song lyrics and asked again for help with an episode title, and it gave me a really similar list of awful, boring titles ("Echoes and Reflections", "Winds of Change", "Songs of Solitude and Society", "Contours of the Heart", "Rhythms of Resilience"), but it also said, "Given the diversity of themes and emotional undertones in these songs, your podcast episode title could encapsulate the essence of navigating through changes, challenges, and introspective moments." Instead of using one of its awful titles, I went for "changes, challenges, and introspective moments". Next time I can't come up with a title, I may give it the list of all 187 titles so far and see if it can match my (somewhat bare bones) style. (Nope. It came up with "Reflective Echoes", which is still too poetic and not descriptive enough. After telling it to make something more descriptive, I got "Challenges and Echoes", which would have worked.)