The Retro Project
Originally, as I was thinking about this song, I imagined I would sing, as I often do, for the majority of my songs. But then I had another thought.
I was thinking about Kraftwerk and how much I like when they use speech synthesis in their songs. While I would not be breaking any rules using a speech synthesizer (since they existed in the 80s), I didn't have one, so I'd be breaking my own rules, to only use instruments and tools I had in the 80s.
While I didn't have a speech synthesizer, I did have a Speak 'n Spell. I was a terrible speller, so my parent's bought it for me in the hopes it would improve my spelling, and it did, but not nearly as much as auto correct has in the days since.
Now, you cannot dictate language to a Speak 'n Spell, right? I mean, it won't say whatever you want, it will only say what it is programmed to say from the factory. With one exception.
It says all the letters of the alphabet, and the names of some letters can be combined to make sentences:
I C U
And this created a very interesting challenge to me, could I write song lyrics like that, only using letter names to make sentences. The answer is yes, but I'm not going to reveal what I came up with (after all, there should be some mystery, even as I explain how the sausage is made). It was both challenging and cool to be forced to write this way, but I cannot see getting more than a single song out of this method.
