
🧠☕ SOULLESS MONEY MACHINE – Depeche Bros (AI DM-Inspired Original)
🎧 A Surreal Synthwave Satire on Corporate Dystopia 🎧
🎶 Written, Composed & Created with Udio, Produced, Directed, Edited, and Artistic Vision by Alfredo Hinojo 🎶
Step into the fluorescent-lit abyss of modern labor with "Soulless Money Machine", the new single from Depeche Bros, an AI DM-inspired band channeling existential melancholy and biting sarcasm through the lens of artificial intelligence and digital surrealism.
This handcrafted audiovisual experience fuses haunting synths and hypnotic repetition with a gritty, surrealist visual narrative. Every frame was meticulously crafted using Midjourney, Microsoft Designer, Kling AI, and Kapwing, blending AI-generated imagery with handcrafted edits to create a world where corporate absurdity becomes art.
🖼️ Visual Highlights Include:
🧾🧠 A head that prints memos like a fax machine of corporate thought
☕😵 A coffee mug-shaped head, eternally steaming with caffeinated despair
🧑💻⌨️ A professional with a typewriter for a head, typing on a computer—a darkly comic jab at the upskilling craze
👔👏 Boardrooms of time crunching bottom line cyborgs
🔍 LYRICAL ANALYSIS
"Soulless Money Machine" is a raw, unflinching commentary on the dehumanizing nature of modern work culture and the relentless machine-like pulse of corporate life. The repeated mantra of "soulless money machine" underscores the cyclical grind of punching timeclocks and eating lunch at screens. The lyrics evoke a world where human creativity is reduced to productivity metrics, and identity is swallowed by routine.
Lines like "My gears they grind / The fears inside / My tears they blind" hint at a buried humanity struggling beneath the surface—an emotional core trapped in a mechanical shell. The juxtaposition of "corporations" and "corpses making" is a chilling critique of the cost of labor, questioning whether the pursuit of profit is worth the erosion of our creative, vibrant selves.
This is more than a song—it's a sonic protest, a visual poem, and a mirror held up to the modern soul.
⚠️ SECOND VERSION DROPPING IN A FEW DAYS – Featuring alternate visuals and darker synth breakdowns. Stay tuned! 🎛️🌀
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