One brief, two takes, and what the difference tells you
Fourteen words went into the box. The same fourteen words produced both of these — they are the two takes of a single generation, eleven seconds apart in length and quite different in the chorus.
The prompt that made it
“A festive dance-pop party opener with a huge drop and a chant everyone can shout”
The brief asks for three things only: festive dance-pop, a huge drop, and a chant people can shout. All three arrive, and the shoutable part is exactly where you would put it. 3:23.
The prompt that made it
“A festive dance-pop party opener with a huge drop and a chant everyone can shout”
Same words, same generation, a different performance: 3:12, a different lead line into the drop. This is why both takes are worth hearing before you touch the brief — you are choosing, not fixing.
A short brief with a strong shape beats a long brief with none. What this one leaves out — the BPM, the subgenre, the vocal — is what the generator chose; pin those down only when the choice matters to you.
Dance music is where people finally say the tempo
Across requests between 4 September and 4 October whose description, style or genre menu named EDM, house, techno, trance, dubstep or drum and bass:
| In the request | Share of dance requests | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A tempo or pace word | nearly 1 in 2 | The highest of the genres we measure — dance thinking is tempo thinking |
| A described track, not pasted lyrics | about 3 in 5 | The words get written for you; the brief is about energy |
| Made with the Instrumental switch on | about 1 in 11 | Most come back sung, even when the brief says “club track” |
| Made on the free plan | about 3 in 4 | This is a genre people come to try first |
The gap is the vocal. If you are building something to play out, tick Instrumental; if you want a vocal hook, say whose voice it is — “female topline, airy”, “male, half-spoken” — because that is the part the brief usually forgets.
Say which dance floor
Four words of subgenre carry more arrangement than a paragraph of adjectives.
| If you mean | Write | Sits at |
|---|---|---|
| Big-room festival | “festival EDM, huge supersaw drop, stadium chant” | 126–130 BPM |
| Deep / melodic house | “melodic deep house, warm bass, airy female topline” | 120–124 BPM |
| Techno | “driving techno, hypnotic loop, no big melody” | 130–140 BPM |
| Future bass / pop-EDM | “future bass, pitched vocal chops, bright drop” | 140–150 BPM (half-time feel) |
| Trance | “uplifting trance, long build, arpeggiated lead” | 136–142 BPM |
| Drum and bass | “liquid drum and bass, rolling breakbeat” | 172–176 BPM |
Then add the one structural sentence that dance music lives on: what happens at the drop. “The drop cuts to just bass and claps”, “the chant comes back over the second drop”, “build for eight bars, then silence, then everything” — the arrangement follows it.
How long a dance track comes out
Measured from the audio files of dance songs made between 4 September and 4 October: median 3:25, and eight in ten between 1:16 and 5:01.
| Length | Share |
|---|---|
| Under 2 minutes | 17% |
| 2 to 3 minutes | 21% |
| 3 to 4 minutes | 28% |
| 4 to 5 minutes | 23% |
| Over 5 minutes | 11% |
That is radio-edit territory, not a twelve-minute club mix. For a longer version, take a finished song and extend it, which continues the same track rather than making a new one; on a paid plan Custom mode also sets an exact length up to five minutes.
Playing it out, and putting it online
Sharing a link is free on every plan and carries no watermark. Playing a track in a paid setting — a club night you are paid for, a monetised stream, an advert — needs the commercial licence on Pro and Ultra, which covers every track in your library with a certificate and a licence code, including ones made before you upgraded. Pro and Ultra also give lossless WAV, which is what you want in a DJ set rather than a re-compressed MP3, and stems if you want to drop the vocal and keep the instrumental.
Before you press Generate
- A subgenre in two or three words — festival, deep house, techno, future bass.
- A tempo, even roughly: “around 128”.
- One sentence about the drop: what cuts, what comes back.
- The vocal named, or the Instrumental switch on if you want none.
- The menus under the box agree with the sentence.
Sources
Written and fact-checked by the Tunely team · Updated