On August 25, a new single is coming: “Valets ö”.
The idea for the song started with something I kept noticing while watching political debates on television and following discussions on social media.
After a while, I started seeing similarities with reality shows.
The camps.
The alliances.
The promises.
The constant fight for votes.
Everyone trying to convince everyone else that they have the answer.
At first, I saw the humor in it. But underneath the humor was something else – anger.
Because this isn’t actually a reality show. These are real political decisions, real problems and real people affected by what happens.
So I wrote down a few lines.
Those lines became verses. Then came choruses, more ideas, rewrites and a lot of messing around with the lyrics until the whole thing started taking shape.
The result is a Swedish-language punk song about politics, power, promises and the strange similarities between political campaigning and reality television.
How the song was made
I’m not a songwriter by background, so I used several AI tools as part of the writing process.
I started with my own text and used ChatGPT to help correct and develop parts of it. I then went through the material with Copilot and Grok as well.
But the process wasn’t simply about generating a finished lyric and using it.
I took the parts I liked, brought them back into my own text, rewrote sections, moved lines around and changed the wording. Then I went through the process again.
And again.
And again.
I ended up doing roughly ten rounds of revisions before I was happy with the result.
The final lyrics are therefore built from my original ideas and writing, developed and refined with the help of the tools I used throughout the process.
Creating the music
Once the lyrics were ready, I used Suno to create the music.
Again, it wasn’t simply a matter of pasting in the lyrics and pressing Create.
I also gave detailed instructions for how the instruments should behave in different sections. For example:
[Guitar: fast, aggressive punk riff]
[Bass: heavy driving eighth notes]
[Drums: full throttle, double kick and huge fills]
Suno doesn’t always follow those instructions, and sometimes the result simply doesn’t work.
For this song, I generated around 70 different versions before finding one that felt close to what I was looking for.
Not perfect. I don’t believe you can realistically expect any generated version to be exactly 100% what you imagined in your head.
But close enough.
That version became the starting point for the final production.
Working on the audio
The next step was separating the different elements of the track.
I used both Suno’s own tools and LALAL.AI. For this particular song, I felt that LALAL.AI gave me the better result.
The separated tracks were then brought into Audacity for further editing and processing.
One of the things I worked on was the drums. I duplicated the drum track and delayed one of the copies by roughly two seconds. That gave the drums a different character and helped create the tighter, more aggressive feel I was looking for.
So the finished track isn’t simply the result of pressing a button and accepting whatever comes out.
There is quite a bit of work between the first generation and the final version.
From music to video
The artwork and visual material for “Valets ö” were created using OpenArt.
For the music video, I used those images as the starting point and animated them with VideoExpress. The different scenes were then edited and assembled in CapCut.
So the journey from the first idea to the finished release has involved quite a few different steps and tools.
It started with watching political debates and noticing something that shouldn’t really feel as familiar as it does.
Politics looking like a reality show.
A few lines on a piece of paper turned into verses, the verses turned into a song, and the song turned into a video.
“Valets ö” – released August 25, 2026.
Right in the middle of the Swedish election campaign.
And when the votes are counted, the fire has burned down and the cameras finally stop rolling…
Who actually won?
