So I just asked Grok to compose a parody version of America’s “Everyone I Meet is From California” (1971) (Video below)
Here’s what it came up with in literally a few seconds:
California Exodus Parody
(To the tune of “Everyone I Meet Is from California” by America)
Lyrics
Well, I said goodbye to the Golden State,
Where the taxes climb and the fires don’t wait.
Streets are lined with tents and broken dreams,
Needles in the gutters, it ain’t what it seems.
Chorus:
Everyone I meet’s from California,
Packing up their bags, they’re headin’ to Nevada.
Red states callin’, they’re leavin’ in a hurry,
‘Cause the Golden Dream’s gone blurry.
Human waste on sidewalks, power’s flickerin’ low,
Brownouts in the summer, nowhere left to go.
Wildfires burn the hills, skies choked with smoke,
Folks are movin’ out, sayin’ this state’s broke.
Chorus:
Everyone I meet’s from California,
Runnin’ to Montana or maybe Arizona.
High costs and chaos, they’re done with the fight,
Headin’ for the Red states’ light.
Used to be the dreamland, surfers and the sun,
Now it’s budget battles, and no one’s havin’ fun.
From Frisco to L.A., the story’s all the same,
Californians leavin’, no one left to blame.
Chorus:
Everyone I meet’s from California,
Crossin’ state lines, sayin’ “See ya, California!”
Homeless camps and taxes, they’re leavin’ it behind,
Searchin’ for a freer state of mind.
Outro:
Oh, California, what happened to your glow?
Your people hit the road, they’re lettin’ you go.
Everyone I meet’s from California,
But they’re buildin’ new lives in Idaho.
The original:
Col.(ret.) Tom Kratman made a similar ask for an anti-national anthem of the Star Spangled Banner.
” Oh, the shadows we cast in twilight gloom, At the land that divides us, our hearts find no room. The stripes of discord, the fields of disdain, We March to the dissonance, a fractured refrain.
With no gleaming stars, just darkness above, No unity we find, no binding love. Where freedom falters, and justice bends, In this shattered land, our hope descends.
The flag of division,we unfurl high, A symbol of discord, where truth and trust die. No land of the free, no home of the brave, Only chains of discord, a nation enslaved.”
A human still probably could have done a better job, but for a few seconds’ work, that’s pretty good. Sometimes AI gets it right. It’s too bad about California, though. They have no one to blame but thesmselves, I’m just afraid they’ll never come to face that and believe it and fix it.
The Babylon Bee did a human-made version of this sort of thing some ways back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfBvkql0lI