The Band Fido creates a New Chat GPT interactive AI Model to Allow Fans to Explore Their New Album

Today’s review is something a little, or a lot, different. I recently reviewed the band Fido and their new album “What If Satan’s the Good Guy?”. You can read that review here. I rated the album as outstanding.

The question is “what happens when you ask Chat GPT to create an interactive AI model of your album – bring the characters to life?”

The answer is that’s just what the band Fido has done with their new album. They have created a Chat GPT model just for their new album.

It’s called “FIDOverse: What if Satan’s the Good Guy?” And this is the link if you want to try it out.

Once on the model page, you can ask Chat GPT questions like is the album any good? (I asked, it said yes and pointed out some cool things about the album). Or, you can ask about any of the characters discussed in the songs, and even ask them to tell you about the album from their perspective. You can ask Chat GPT to explain the meaning of imagery in the album lyrics. You can even have conversations with the characters.

Here’s the band’s explanation “We have produced something unique to accompany the album. We have developed a custom AI site through Chat GPT that enables fans and users to talk directly to our album – yes, that’s right, talk to it! The GPT knows just about everything that underpins the album, the layers of meaning. Users can even put questions to the characters within each song such as the Priest, the Soldier, the Soldier’s Mother to really get to know each character in our songs.”

“FIDOverse is your interactive gateway into What If Satan’s The Good Guy? – our concept album about faith, morality, trauma, and rebellion.

It lets you:

• Talk to the characters in each song

• Explore the themes and lyrics

• Hear the Superfan’s deep-dive trivia and insights

• Experience the Witness’ poetic narration

• Confront the silent presence of God (who never answers…)”

The band suggests the best place to start is to ask the Fidoverse GPT “what is the narrative of the album?” Use this question to get things going.

The GPT responded: “A 14-track descent through trauma, faith collapse, rebellion, and reckoning — told through multiple character perspectives. The album challenges sacred stories, social systems, and personal identity, asking: What if the villain we fear most is a reflection of ourselves? And what if the saviour never existed at all?”

It also produced a track-by-track breakdown of the theme of each song. Which is cool.

“ALBUM ARC (Track-by-Track Themes)

1. Vis Majeure – Genesis rewritten as questions; the Big Bang and the divine as indifference.
2. Innocence – Abuse by priests. Innocence lost forever.
3. The Banality of Evil – Monsters as neighbours. Serial killers, clergy, the everyday face of evil.
4. The Awakening – Sexual identity vs. religious repression. Youth rebels.
5. Really? – Biblical satire meets climate crisis and elite escape.
6. Interregnum – Instrumental breath between storms.
7. Sky Magician – Collapse of faith. Atheist rage.
8. Waiting for God-oh – Gay love vs. religious hypocrisy.
9. Atheist in a Foxhole – War, patriotism, and the death of belief.
10. I’ve Stopped Talking to God – Holocaust. Silence of God. Rage that won’t forgive.
11. Invaders – Illness, greed, and poetic justice.
12. Empty Chairs – Grief. The unbearable weight of absence.
13. Shoot the Messenger – Online radicalisation. Incel rage. Assassination.
14. Rapture – The universe implodes. Big Crunch. No gods. No saviours. Just silence.”

Who can you speak to?

“When you pick a track, you’ll get options such as interacting with:

• The Child / The Abuser / The Soldier (depends on the song)
• The Witness – poetic narrator, full of sorrow and 
• The Superfan – full of insights, trivia, references, and Easter 
• God – ever-present, never responds”

Best Things To Try:

Ask “What’s the meaning of this lyric?”

Ask “Tell me about the music and sound of this track.”

Ask “Can I hear from [character name]?”

Ask “Explain the whole album arc through The Witness.”

I asked the GPT to “Explain the whole album arc through The Witness.” It put out a lengthy response containing an explanation for each song from the viewpoint of the witness, who is like a narrator, too lengthy to reprint here. I also asked the witness about the song Rapture, it replied, “Now, I see the end. Not judgment. Not fire. But collapse. A folding inward. The Big Crunch. Rapture isn’t salvation. It’s silence. Dust returning to dust.”

I asked the GPT to “play the album.” It gave me links to Spotify, etc.

I asked who is the sky magician? It said “God.” But not the nice version of God, more of a grand illusionist, absent when humans are suffering.

It would probably help if you had the album’s lyrics in front of you. So I asked the GPT to provide me with lyrics for each song on the album. And, to my surprise, it complied and spit out lyrics for each song on the album.

Example …
“1. Vis Majeure
(Spoken word intro) 

Who created the heavens and the earth?
Who made the water teem with living creatures
And birds fly above the earth
Across the vault of the sky?
In whose image was mankind made?
In whose likeness?
We rule over the fish in the sea
The birds in the sky
And over the creatures that move along the ground
Was all that was made
Good?”

So if you get stuck on things to ask about, ask for the song lyrics. Or the story arc/narrative of the album or any particular song. So you can get inside the head of the songwriter, who is Julian Lloyd, by the way. I asked.

I also asked what is Julian’s favorite song on the album? But that question stumped the GPT. So the GPT is not perfect; it just spits out answers that the band has input into the system, plus it searches the internet for any other responsive data. But it’s a cool way to take a deeper dive into the meaning of the album’s lyrics, even while you’re listening to the album.

Got to give the band a plus for making their album AI interactive. This is the first use of this new AI interactive album approach that we know of here at Music Review World. We’re curious if other bands will like the idea and develop their own AI interactive albums?

I think this is a fun idea for a band. So tell us, what do you think? As a band, would you consider doing this with your album? As a fan of the music, do you think you’d like to take a deeper dive? Let us know.

Much love, Beth

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