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The New Song

Is that their song?

The New Song

A singer you love died years ago. Their label feeds every recording they ever made into a machine and it writes and sings a new song in their voice. It's good. It sounds like them on a strong day. Fans can't tell, and the family gave permission.

Is that their song?

Then ask

  • Would you put it on a playlist with the real ones?
  • What if they'd left notes saying they'd wanted to write something like it?
  • Does it matter that nobody meant anything by the words?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Same Boat
  2. The Room of Slips
  3. Mary's Grey Room
  4. The Lever
  5. The Handwriting
  6. Same Dog
  7. The Forgery
  8. The Phone Knows