Welcome to the Health Ranger Report with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger!
Alright, welcome.
This is commentary about the new song, Going Back in Time, is Coming Home.
This is a song that I came up with as, well, someone challenged me actually to do a country-western song, and I wanted to do one anyway, and many of you, well, I don't think anybody listening to this knows, there's actually, I have a distant cousin who...
Wrote one of the most famous country western songs ever recorded.
And I'm not going to say what song it is.
It's a song you would recognize.
Because I just, I don't, I mean, I want to protect the privacy of my other family members.
But music runs in my family.
And I've been doing music since I was less than six years old.
And I've been writing songs for a long time.
Decades.
And I love the idea of doing a song with a music video that takes us back in time.
To a simpler day, pre-technology, pre-internet, pre-mobile phones.
There actually is an image of a mobile phone at the beginning, but it's saying that this is what we reject in the theme of this song.
The rest of the song and all the videos, which are AI-generated, interestingly, show...
Well, I try to have them depict the 1970s and youth and outdoor activities.
There's a lot of...
You know, fishing and playing baseball and riding bikes and things like that.
And even the bikes had the old handlebars from the 1970s.
I had a bike just like that.
And what did we do as kids growing up in the 1970s or the 1980s?
What did we do?
We went outside.
And we played.
And we built forts and treehouses and swings and bike jumping ramps.
And we crashed on the ramps and whatever.
And we built snowmen and climbed trees and stuff, and we lived in the real world, whereas today the kids are living in their virtual world.
And I thought that a country-western style would be perfect to demonstrate this contrast.
And so the way that I approach these songs is I come up with the chorus line first.
So I play around with a lot of ideas.
And I came up with a really catchy line, which, of course, every country-western song that's going to be good has to have a catchy line.
And the catchy line for this song is, going back in time is coming home.
And that's a really catchy line.
And I've had people listen to the song, and they're like, that's a hit, man.
That's a country-western hit.
That should be on the radio, you know?
Like, well, okay, but you can download it for free from music.brightian.com.
It would sure be cool if some country-western artist wanted to re-record the song with their own voice.
I'd be totally open to that discussion.
That would be awesome.
Because country-western music can be very expressive, and I specifically chose the fiddle as the lead instrument for this song.
Oh, and as a disclaimer, of course I use Suno as the AI engine, but understand that I'm a songwriter.
I'm a musician.
I'm a performer.
I've done...
All of it.
For years, I've done the vocals, I've done the sound engineering, I've done the music, I'm a keyboardist, I'm a percussionist, etc.
So I know how to craft songs, but I use AI to make it way more effective, and of course I use AI-generated vocals here.
Because I can't sing that well.
Few people can, and I needed a very specific kind of voice for this.
Actually, it turned into two different voices, because I wasn't happy with...
I wasn't happy with the intro of the song in the original voice, and I reworked that to be a deeper voice.
You may notice that throughout the song, the voice morphs a little bit so that the second verse sounds a little more nasal.
But that's kind of an artifact of AI, also, that the characters sometimes morph or the voices morph.
Most people wouldn't notice it, unless I point it out, typically.
But it's not the same voice all the way through.
Anyway, it's not my voice.
And it's funny that every time I release a song, people text me.
It's like, is that you singing?
No matter what.
It's like a rap song, country-western song.
Like, I've got a male tenor classical voice song coming up.
I'm sure somebody's going to text me.
Is that you?
Heck no!
I can't sing like that.
Are you kidding me?
I wish!
But no, I can't.
These are not my voices.
But this is my music.
And it's my message and it's my heart that's expressed through this.
So yes, I use AI technology to express my humanity.
It's just another creative tool.
It's like using Photoshop if you're a photographer and you want to really make your photos something special.
You want to express your creativity.
You use technology, such as Photoshop, or if you're making videos or films, you might use special effects, etc.
So we use technology.
And today...
AI technology is really helpful in augmenting song creation, but it's not a simple thing.
You can't just write a bunch of lyrics and just throw it at Suno and say, hey, make a great country-western song.
You'll find out very quickly that it doesn't work that way, because most of what it spits out sucks.
Only occasionally does it spit out something that's any, at least in my view, that's really usable.
And then even then, it's never the whole song.
The first thing I look for is a usable chorus.
And so in my prompt, the prompt engineering for the music, I'm specifically, I'm describing, of course, the style of music, country, western, I'm describing the lead instruments, the fiddle, I'm describing the emotional expressive quality of the instruments and the types of percussion, all kinds of things, but also specifically the vocals, a certain type of vocals.
And then You also have to be very careful about the way you write the lyrics because you need to write it more phonetically.
And there are lines in here where there's a certain type of pronunciation that I was looking for where I had to spell words in a very specific way.
So for example, the third line in the song is they can't imagine living life before the internet.
But I wanted it sung as they can't imagine living life.
As in the word kaint that rhymes with ain't.
Because this is a very specific pronunciation that is common in certain types of country western performances.
That pronunciation of the word kaint.
And having grandparents that lived in the country, in the Midwest, and as a child I would work on their farm and I would drive...
I was cutting hay when I was 14 on a big John Deere tractor.
I could barely reach the clutch.
And I remember my grandparents had very specific ways of pronouncing certain things and certain words that still stick with me to this day, like the word youngins.
You familiar with that?
The young'uns are going out outside, or the young'uns are out back.
What are the young'uns?
Well, it's the kids, right?
And then there's also a word yonder, over yonder.
And those of you who are my age, you may have heard this word a lot when you were growing up.
You probably don't hear it very much anymore, but it was a very common word in rural America.
And there's a certain kind of a cultural love that's found in these types of words.
A certain type of pronunciation, like kaint.
But to get that kind of pronunciation, you have to use it phonetically in the lyrics.
And also to get the pacing of the song that you're looking for, you need to understand how to use, how to count syllables in your lines, how to understand the way the AI engine interprets syllabic counts or beats, and then the way that you use lines.
So when you put a line feed in the lyrics and you have another line, that actually indicates another musical sentence to the AI engine, and it tries to fit the musical sentences around the lines of text in your lyrics.
So there's actually a lot to this.
But I always start out with the chorus, and when I get a good chorus that I really like, which in this case took hundreds, hundreds of attempts to get...
This specific chorus.
I mean, for whatever reason, this song was really hard for AI to work with.
So once I get a really solid chorus, then, at that point, I know I have a successful song.
I mean, the chorus, and especially in country-western, that one line, that makes the song.
That's the title of the song.
Going back in time is coming home.
That says everything.
From that point forward, the rest of the song almost writes itself, at least out of my mind, and then I can put in I can put in the verses, and I can put in the bridge, and I can put in musical interludes, and I can surround that concept with the scenes of life in the 1970s.
And you'll also notice that the way I write music, every song is unpredictable, and it's very interesting, because I don't go with common, like, four-line rhymes.
Now, a newbie who uses an AI music engine like Suno, They will put in typical lines, and they'll get out very monotonous music, which goes like...
And all four of those words rhyme with each other at the end, and you're like, this is the most boring thing I've ever heard.
So you'll notice I never do that, and I use a lot of different odd timings.
I use...
Interline rhyming.
And one of the examples of this is like in the chorus, it says, for all the days we laughed and prayed the golden memories that we made.
So that line rhymes with itself, and then the line after that is going back in time is coming home.
So if you think about the chorus, it says, do you remember living when we parked the trucks at the old drive-in?
So those two lines rhyme with each other.
The next line is we had each other and we never felt alone.
So now here we have a new word, alone, that doesn't rhyme with anything that came before.
And you're wondering, it leaves your brain hanging, like what is alone?
What's that going to resonate with?
And then the next line is the self-rhyming line, for all the days we laughed and prayed, golden memories that we made, which is a self-rhyming line, like I mentioned.
And then the last one is going back in time is coming home.
Well, coming home rhymes with alone, which is two lines earlier.
So this is a five-line chorus.
Lines one and two rhyme with each other.
Lines three and five rhyme with each other.
And line four is a self-rhyming line.
So that structure of five lines with that rhyming structure is highly unusual.
And it's also very interesting intuitively to listen to.
You don't even have to understand the structure.
You don't have to break it down like I just did.
And figure out which lines rhyme with each other.
It's just like, this is fun to listen to, and it's not boring.
So, you know, Sting is a musician who writes in all kinds of interesting syncopation and time signatures as well, like 7-8 time.
His song, Seven Days, is actually in 7-8 time, I believe.
He'll write in like 5-4 time or 7-8 time or sometimes 6-8 time, you know, different time signatures.
And those are the kinds of things that I experiment with in music, and it makes it very interesting and very unpredictable to listen to.
And if you continue and listen to the next verse after the first chorus, which would be verse 2, you'll see an interesting structure of which lines rhyme with which other lines.
And you don't have to know this to enjoy the song.
It's just...
It's just part of the reason why the song is interesting to listen to, why it makes sense.
Now, the other challenge in these songs is the music videos, and of course, this music video is entirely AI-generated.
Every video in it is AI, and I'm really impressed with the job that AI did on this.
There's one scene where there's two young boys riding the bicycles, and even the boy's hair...
Seems very realistic, the way it's moving and kind of blowing in the wind.
I was really shocked by that.
I was like, wow, AI has come along here.
Didn't used to be this good.
AI does like to put six fingers on people, and so we had to re-render some things because, you know, the demons come out and it becomes six fingers, right?
So we suppressed the demons and we made it four fingers and a thumb.
And one of my graphic designers, Created this video with my direction.
And so I would describe the themes and the scenes that I wanted to see.
I specifically talked about, I want kids on bicycles.
I want the drive-in movie.
I want fishing.
I want outdoor activities, playing baseball.
You know, I want these kinds of things.
And I gave that assignment to one of my graphic designers.
Now this designer on my staff, this is the first music video that he's ever done.
So it's not the same as the previous videos we have, like Bail Out Money, etc.
This is the first video that he's ever done, and the reason I gave it to him is because he's of a similar age, so he also resonates with this.
He has his memories of that time period that he could draw on in order to create this video, which is one reason why I think it turned out to be so authentic.
And this video really resonates with a lot of people.
I've had people tell me that they broke out in tears listening to this song because it reminded them of a time that was simpler, a time that was more joyful, a time before technology, before the internet, before AI. And yeah, I remember those times.
And frankly, the world, we were all happier.
At least that's my memory of the time.
We didn't think that we were missing out on the internet.
We didn't know what the internet was.
Like, oh, you need to find a plumber?
You have the yellow pages, you know?
You flip it open.
It's a giant book.
It's so heavy you can use it as a backstop for shooting rifles, you know?
It's a weapon.
You can whack people with it.
But one of the funny artifacts of this AI generation, and I'm not sure if you noticed this, is that the kids are so...
Like, good-looking kids.
Like, there's no ugly kids in this video.
And, you know, it's funny because I was looking at this and I'm like, these are the kind of kids that you would see in, like, I don't know, like kids' TV shows or something.
They're good-looking kids, right?
And it's not like the kids you see in society today.
When you go to the shopping, the grocery store, and the kids in the checkout lane.
That are climbing all over the shopping cart with super unhealthy obese parents and they're buying junk food.
Those kids look like a dumpster fire.
Kids in America today are all jacked up.
They're on psychiatric drugs and they're eating junk food and most of them are obese or they're mentally ill or whatever.
Kids look all jacked up today.
But in this video, they look really healthy and alive and aware, like big eyes and everything.
And for some reason, a lot of the kids look related to each other, like it's just one big family of kids.
The other funny thing about this is that this AI engine that we used at first, the first pass, it only rendered white kids.
So this is the opposite of what...
Woke big tech companies do, like Google.
When you ask Google AI, like, give me pictures of the founding fathers, it gives you all, like, black people dressed up like colonial leaders.
Or it gives you Native Americans dressed up like the founding fathers.
You know, so woke that it wipes out history and replaces white people with people of color.
Like, that's what Google is all about.
That's the woke culture.
But the AI engine we use, which shall go unnamed, without any prompting, just by default, for some reason, it's all white.
Like, everything's white.
And so I noticed that in the first render of the video.
I'm like, why is every kid white in this video?
And I'm not woke.
I'm not going to erase all the white kids.
But I'm like, this needs to look more like America.
Because even when I grew up, we had black kids.
We had black friends.
When I ran track on the track team, we had Latino kids.
I mean, we had black kids.
We had Hawaiian kids.
We had Middle Eastern kids.
I was actually a tutor for a guy from Iran.
His name was Nadir.
I mean, I still remember his name.
And he was teaching me how to draw Arabic numbers for some reason.
I was like, this is wild.
Which are different from the way we draw them, it turns out.
Anyway, he was an immigrant and the teacher was talking to me.
He's like, Mike, you look totally bored here because school's totally boring for you.
Why don't you just tutor this guy?
Thank God, give me something interesting to do.
Because class is boring and slow.
So, I mean, I grew up around all kinds of kids of different nationalities.
And different colors and everything.
That was the childhood that I knew.
And on the football team and on the track team and even in the math club.
In the math club, we had like Czechoslovakian immigrants.
We had like Ukrainian and Russian immigrants.
I remember they were the good math kids.
And we had a Korean guy who was like super good at math.
He and I were like the top math kids.
And then on the track team, we had Latino and black.
Guys that were just rocking it, you know?
I mean, very athletic and made us white kids look slow.
You know, I remember my coach, like, one day I was just watching one of our black teammates just cranking out a quarter mile, and my coach just looked at the rest of us white kids, shook his head, and just said, that's Mother Nature right there.
That's a gift of Mother Nature.
We're all like, yep, that dude's running a 48-second quarter mile in high school.
Like, damn.
But anyway, my point is, I grew up with black kids.
I grew up with Latino kids.
And so when I saw the video and it was all white kids, I'm like, this isn't the America that I remember.
So I had to go back and tell my guy, I'm like, you've got to put in black kids.
You know, playing baseball, you've got to put in Latino kids.
It's got to look more like America.
And so that's why...
It ended up looking more like America.
Otherwise, it was going to be like an all-white video.
It's a true story.
Or I forgot to mention, we also had Filipino kids.
Cannot forget the Filipinos.
And we had one Samoan kid, too.
Dude was huge in the fifth grade, man.
Like, if you're playing dodgeball, you do not want him to have the ball.
He throws it like a monster, man.
He's going to knock you out of the air.
But yeah, we played dodgeball.
We played kickball.
We played all that stuff.
We were real kids living in real America, you know?
And we didn't know what racism was, by the way.
Just to be clear, we didn't know what racism was.
Nobody came along and told us to hate somebody of a different color.
Never even occurred to me until later on in life when the liberals started screaming about how they're all victimized.
Like, what are you talking about?
All white people are racist.
No, they're not.
I've never heard anybody even use the N-word except my black friends who use it usually in very funny, like, really funny conversations.
Like, okay, true story, maybe controversial, I don't care.
But when I was in college, My first year in college, I was in engineering school because I was really gifted at math.
And so I was pursuing a degree in electrical engineering.
And we had in that school, which didn't have a lot of black kids, but there was one black guy there who was also a math genius.
And he was there.
He and myself, a couple of us, we became friends.
Since we didn't have the internet or anything like that, we sometimes, on the weekend or whatever, we would play the board game Risk, okay?
And this guy, this black guy, he was such a great guy.
He had such a sense of humor.
He would joke about us, and he would joke about himself, and he would joke about race, and it was so funny.
He would joke about white people being so white, and he would also joke about himself.
And I still remember that whenever we played Risk, he always wanted to play the black Risk pieces.
At that time, they had black pieces.
They had red and black and blue, whatever.
He wanted to play black.
And then there's a moment in the Risk game where you get rewarded with more troops to put on the board.
And he would announce to everybody there, he would say...
Oh, you know, like when you get all the new troops, he would say, it's time to renege.
And then he'd get all his pieces and put them on the board.
And we're like, did you just say what we thought you said?
He's like, yeah, it's time to renege.
I'm like, that word doesn't mean what you are using it for.
Because the white kids, you know, like we couldn't really say, you know what you just said?
He's like, yeah, it's time to renege.
And which, of course, the word means to take back.
To take back on something, to take back an agreement.
But that's not the way he used it, but it was so funny.
And then, like, if I ever mentioned the name of a rapper incorrectly, he would joke, and he'd say, you are white, man.
You are the whitest white boy I've ever seen.
Anyway, we laughed.
We had a great time.
And that's part of my childhood, is, like, people of different races and colors, but we were never racist against each other.
But we could joke about race and we could have a good time together.
That's the childhood that I remember, even up through college.
And then, of course, the radical left decided to weaponize race and to turn everybody into a victim.
And Obama created a lot of racial hatred and racial tension and, you know, the rest of that story.
Black Lives Matter and the whole deal.
We didn't have to go down that road as a nation.
I know this, I'm getting off track from the song.
But it is relevant because of the 1970s, at least my memory, and the 1980s, my memory is no racism.
Now, maybe some of you, maybe you grew up in an area where there was racism.
Okay, I accept that that may have existed in your neighborhood.
But I never saw it, never experienced it.
My childhood was multicultural and very, very joyful, very healthy, very much outdoors.
And it was a time where America, Really had values and ethics, at least as I remember it.
Then again, Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard and started all the money printing that has led to massive hyperinflation.
So not everything was going in the right direction.
And that will be called a Richard Nixon reneging on the gold exchange promise of the dollar.
But that's the proper use of that term, in case you're wondering.
Like, that is a word.
Just not a word that you hear a lot for obvious reasons.
But Richard Dixon, he did renege on that deal, that's for sure.
All right, so there you go.
There's a little bit of history of my childhood, my cultural experience in America, my multicultural experience, and then background of the song.
And also, you know, just want to say I do come from a musical family.
I have a very specific memory.
Of being with my family members in, I don't want to say where, but somewhere in the Midwest, and they're having a, I guess you'd call it a shindig, I think that's a word, a shindig, where people come together from the family, and one guy brings a fiddle and one guy brings, I don't know, like a violin, like a guitar, whatever, and they have, maybe it's called a hoedown.
I think it's a shindig, actually.
See, I have to brush up on all these terms, but they just start making music, and it's awesome.
And they're all musicians.
It's just like a family gathering, like, hey, let's have dinner, and bring your violin, and bring your fiddle.
And then one family member will bring over, like, I made this duck call.
It's like, let me show you the duck call.
It's like, wow, that sounds really real.
Yeah, and now let's play some fiddle.
You know, like, I have those memories of being part of a musical family.
And those, obviously, I didn't even value it at the time.
I didn't even know that this was a really special thing that is kind of rare, I suppose, in America.
More rare now.
But back then, it was a lot more common.
A lot of people played music.
And it was a family gathering type of event.
Hey, let's get together and just have a shindig.
I need to make sure that I'm using that word correctly.
What is a shindig?
How do you even spell that?
Okay, a festive party, often with dancing.
Okay, yeah, I got it right.
It's a shindig.
There you go.
Okay, well, let me ask the other question.
What is a...
A hoedown.
What is a hoedown?
Answer.
That's the position Kamala Harris was in?
Oh, no.
I'm sorry.
Wrong.
Hoedown.
A square dance.
Okay.
Good to know.
A music for a square dance.
That's a hoedown.
Okay.
It does have the word ho in it, just to be clear.
So, use it cautiously.
I think this whole report, I have committed multiple, like, word sins here.
I'm in all kinds of trouble for using words here today, even though I've used them in good faith, just to be clear.
But I'm not going to use hoedown.
It's a shindig.
All the way.
All right.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the song.
I've got a lot more music coming out and various music videos.
You can find them all at music.brighttian.com.
The MP3 files are there for you to download and feel free to enjoy them for personal and non-commercial use.
If anybody listening to this, if you are interested in commercial use or maybe re-recording the song or using it in whatever way that is not personal use, please contact us for proper licensing.
And we'd love to Help you make that happen if you find value in any of this music.
Now, I've got other music styles.
I'm actually pretty diverse in musical styles.
And so I've got an electronica pop song coming out.
I've got...
That song is called Don't Believe Your Eyes.
And it's about the artificial reality of our techno era.
I've got another song called Do What We Say.
The music video for that is about halfway done.
And it's about the obedience demands of the COVID years and tyrannical government.
I've got another song called Doing Alright, which is almost like a Christian rap.
It's a spiritual uplifting song with a sort of like a black folk rap voice.
And then I've also written a love song using a male tenor voice with a symphonic orchestral.
Musical piece that is really heartwarming.
And that's in addition to the rap song of, well, Where the Money Go, Joe, and also I Want My Bailout Money, and then we've got Vaccine Zombie.
All these are available, all different musical styles, and much more coming.
And then finally, I've also got musical poetry, which is A Child of God.
And that's an experience.
You can check all that out at music.brighteon.com.
Thank you for listening.
Go have fun at your hoedown.
I mean, your shindig!
Okay, thanks for listening.
They call it progress when your head's down in your phone.
They call it crazy eating dinners that are homegrown.
They can't imagine living life before the internet.
But they haven't lived life yet.
And we'll never forget.
Until you're eating homemade ice cream in the shade.
Ooh, sitting with your sweetheart as the porch swing sways.
You've put another catch in the fishing net.
You really haven't lived life yet.
We'll never forget.
Do you remember living when we parked our trucks at the old drive-in?
We had each other and we never felt alone For all the days we laughed and prayed The golden memories that we made 'Cause going back in time is coming home Jumping on the hay bales, dad stacked in the barn Spitting seeds across the yard
Having fun was never very hard.
Listening to tree frogs singing in the creek.
Me and you playing hide and seek.
The memories are closed, the years are far.
Those days, they may have disappeared in time.
But they're still fresh as morning sunshine in my mind.
Do you remember living when we parked our trucks at the old drive-in?
We had each other and we never felt alone.
For all the days we laughed and prayed, the golden memories that we made.
Cause going back in time is coming home.
Fresh peach juice running down your chin.
Wild berries that seem to never end.
Running from the honeybee hives.
Oh Lord, it's good to feel alive.
Waking up to bacon and scrambled eggs.
Birds fill the skies on sunny days.
I feel sorry for the kids being born today.
Cause they'll never get to feel that way.
Do you remember living when we parked our trucks at the old drive-in?
We had each other and we never felt alone.
For all the days we laughed and prayed, the golden memories that we made.
Cause going back in time is coming home.
Though we always wanted more like the rich kids live next door.
We never ever felt that we were poor.
We lived a life to see the love of wholesome family.
And we knew what life was like living free.
We lived a life to see the love of wholesome family.
Do you remember living when we parked our trucks and the old driving?
We had each other and we never felt alone.
For all the days we laughed and prayed, the golden memories that we've made.
Cause going back in time is coming home.
Going back in time is coming home.
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Let me show you some of the ingredients that you will find in this because it'll blow your mind.
It's a spagyric matake mushroom extract.
With shiitake and echinacea root extract together.
And it's part ethanol and it's part water.
So it's that combination that does a better extraction from the functional mushrooms here.
So functional mushrooms plus echinacea in a laboratory-tested, certified organic format.
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