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1. I was feeling a little meta today, so I wrote a rock song about a local creole band; they're not super popular or into it for the music, they just do it for fun when they're not at their day jobs. It's kind of a character piece. Has anyone done a song like that before?
2. I wrote this song as a period piece; it's an environmentalist protest folk song about the use of DDT and the impact of industrialization on people and the environment, with the idea in mind that we don't know what we have until it's gone. Is there a song like that already?
3. A friend commissioned me to write a love song for them, but I didn't want to, so I wrote a song about not wanting to. Has that been done before?
4. This song is a retelling of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," but with more electronic instruments and more of a dance-pop sound. Is there a song like that?
5. I took another shot at the "song about a band" idea, except this time I wrote the lyrics to sound like a rumor, like someone talking to their friends about how cool this band is, reading about them in magazines, stuff like that. I'm gonna describe the lead singer as this rebellious figure, and I'm gonna record it so that it sounds like it's live, with echo and stuff. Has that been done?
6. This one's a rock song with a samba influence and a prominently featured poly-rhythm - it's written from the perspective of a guy who meets a girl, they agree to meet again somewhere, and he finds out after waiting a while that he's gone to the wrong place. That doesn't exist already, does it?
7. This one rock song that I wrote is a character piece about an old man, and the verse and bridge give different perspectives on him - the verse is how the world sees him as this gross hobo, and the bridge is how he sees himself as this tragic, romantic figure. Is there a song like that already?
8. This one's a story song, and I looked to real events for inspiration - turns out there was a semi truck going through Scranton, PA in 1965 when the driver lost control going down a long, steep hill into town and crashed his truck and dumped the entire load of bananas he was carrying. There's not a song about that already, is there?
9. I'll bet you can't catch me plagiarizing a song without any lyrics! I wrote this rock instrumental for guitar, bass, and drums, and I put the title in the beginning of the song spelled out in Morse code. So - is there a song like that?
10. I'll write a song right now to prove to you that I'm not plagiarizing on purpose! How about a pop song about, uh, three miners who get trapped after a cave in, and... and two of them eat the other one to survive. There's no way that song already exists!
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