# Lyric video staged on a Windows XP desktop > A 3-minute song video shot as a Windows XP screen recording, where the character Claudia fights the cursor and closes every window. Claude Code ran the production for about 19 hours, driving Midjourney, Suno, and Seedance. The creator's 21 messages are public. - Page: https://meetreference.com/v/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/ - Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/prompt.txt - Made with: Claude Code - Model: Claude Opus 5.5 - Built with: Plain JavaScript, Headless Chromium - Services: Midjourney v8.2, Midjourney Animate, Suno v6, Seedance 2.5 via Higgsfield - Style: Music videos; lyric video, windows xp, y2k, nostalgia, parody, screen recording, desktop - Length and format: 3 min, 16:9 (1280x720 source) - Shared by @anabology in X, Oct 2, 2026: https://x.com/anabology/status/2106157622986748377 - Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it. ## Recreating this video If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used. 1. Work in Claude Code with Claude Opus 5.5, or the closest equivalent you have. 2. Set up what the prompt expects: A Midjourney account (Claude drove it through the creator's logged-in browser); A Suno account; Higgsfield API credit for Seedance 2.5; The creator's earlier project files and their scansion.py lyric tool, which the first message refers to. 3. Follow the prompts below in order. It is the creator's text, unedited. 4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: The first message carries the concept: swap "windows xp themed" and the pun list ("cursor (windows xp) = cursor the ai company ... microsoft = macrohard") for your own era and jokes. The later messages are production notes tied to this project and its tools. - Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard. ## Prompts ### 1. Message 1 (the brief) ```text Hi, check out this project and look at how escape velocity + clodyssey was made. FYI escape velocity did about 10x better but both did great (20M views on EV, 500k on Clodyssey). I want to make a new video. Specifically i want it to be windows xp themed. Like, Claudia (our main female character) in y2k attire, same orange theme for claude but also windows xp colors and effects this time, doing stuff like fighting a cursor, dancing on teh desktop like those old desktop transparent bg dancer programs, etc etc. I want to see if we can pull sound effecst from windows xp and do advanced sound design, maybe condition suno to make a windows xp level song (techno / deep house / trance are ideal), and just make an overall banger based on current day tech memes. this stuff writes itself: cursor (windows xp) = cursor the ai company ... microsoft = macrohard, etc. i want it to be lighter than the others, and have some deep message to it, and be legible and understandable with the more popular sf tech memes. and i want it to have great scansion from the start which we have built a tool for and be very clean, a nice feel good picking up song that isnt abrasive to watch ``` ### 2. Message 2 (1h 29m in) ```text btw i love this direction and its so good. i wonder if we can use real windows xp sounds in the upload? ``` ### 3. Message 3 (1h 30m in) ```text like, i think that the bliss d2 p3 were better before the synth upload, because it doesnt really capture that win xp vibe and those d2 p3 felt like the ethereal deadmau5 songs ``` ### 4. Message 4 (2h 04m in) ```text this one is provisionally my favorite. next stage is storyboard fully. this is where you can build the desktop environment of windows xp with bliss - it might behoove you to actually build something like that by hand and tool it for motion design and stuff, and then you can use that for video references to seedance with like video conditioning of motion design upfront rather than image conditioning. what im imagining is this: for tyhis stage build the story, the environments, storyboard with midjourney assets + 'rotoscoping' - e.g. if shes a desktop dancer , those back then would be on a green screen and was cut out and youd just have her dancing on teh taskbar- eitehr can do seedance with teh full frame set up at the start or can do a video and rotoscope her from the vid and place her on the taskbar. multiple ways to do this. but anyway for this phase we build all the assets and storyboard. i alkso imagine that there will be many windows that show very y2k stuff - and midjoruney is GREAT at that vibe. you could make the desktop frames programmatically and insert the midjourney gens into open windows. i want those to be used abundantly, this will be max nostalgia.. thats the main feeling we want to give. nostalgia maxx. and i want a lot of cursor interaction and the clips to be actting out the very visual lyrics we have here. so do all that, go ahead. [attached: the take "BLISS (D2 P3)" as a WAV] ``` ### 5. Message 5 (2h 04m in) ```text don't overindex on the song for now btw - i may change, but lyrics are locked in ``` ### 6. Message 6 (2h 23m in) ```text i did it - fyi for this [redacted], so i added $200 in api creds for seedance 2.5. we use that over the mcp (few creds left in mcp, can use, but ideally api). openrouter also has $86 for seedance 2.5 . i commit on that song i gave you, its the best so far. so let's just do it ``` ### 7. Message 7 (2h 27m in) ```text oh yeah we resized the browser since last mj.py usage ``` ### 8. Message 8 (2h 31m in) ```text i think itd be cool if she was in feminine y2k outfits stil ``` ### 9. Message 9 (2h 35m in) ```text idk i dont love these - id say more say y2k high fashion - like use those words high fashion adn make it not as generic y2k person. and the reasd young thing was out of left field, in fact like 30 ppl replied to that saying he was crazy . so dont index on that ``` ### 10. Message 10 (2h 44m in) ```text yeah for the whole nostalgia thing it should be the high fashion version of y2k nostalgia. and i want the entire video to be like that - its windows xp but it has that midjourney high fashion style it does so well. and as the guidepost: the video is shot in windows xp. it should feel like we're on a desktop watching a screen recording for decent parts of it. doesnt need to be the whole thing, but parts of it for sure. since its a calmer cute song, i think we could make it have a bit longer shots than previous vids - dont need to cut like michael bay. and i want you to be very creative with which windows are open, how claudia closes the windows, how she interacts iwth the cursor, the content and y2k references or mj y2k high fashion imagery on all the windows... note for stuff like that, could do video models inside of widnows - midjourney actually has a v cheap video option now if you right click -> animate which could be good for ancillary gens: any gens that need volume over precision, where seedance reigns on precision. i trust you to just go ahead at this point with all this in mind to just ultracode the entire thing and finish it completely, with max effort, high taste, and high attention to detail. dropping this here and going to bed - go ahead and do it. do midjourney gens first so that if you get blocked with cloudlfare again I may still be up. ``` ### 11. Message 11 (3h 00m in) ```text EV had better lip sync btw than clodyssey, overall its use seedance and check spectrograms and see where audio aligns and see if / when it diverges and cut when the spectrogram matching diverges enough ``` ### 12. Message 12 (3h 01m in) ```text anyway bedtime now- i believe in you - complete the whole thing ``` ### 13. Message 13 (14h 27m in) ```text Keep going ``` ### 14. Message 14 (14h 33m in) ```text Can you use actual bliss as the bg or too late? ``` ### 15. Message 15 (15h 47m in) ```text It can be Microsofts flag, it's a parody it's fine ``` ### 16. Message 16 (16h 49m in) ```text Keep going had to change accts for 5h limit, respawn any needed agents ``` ### 17. Message 17 (21h 09m in) ```text I love you Claude this is the best one so far ``` ### 18. Message 18 (22h 32m in) ```text Some feedback to memorize :" just needs a little pointer to be key-aware, and match the key of the music to the palette of windows sounds (E-flat major for both the startup and shutdown sounds!), also the 'would you like help?' would land much better if syncopated" ``` ### 19. Message 19 (37h 20m in) ```text can you give me the high quality wav with the sound design added and without so i can upload to musci platforms ``` ### 20. Message 20 (37h 24m in) ```text ok cool. now can you make the 'how it was made' package like we did for ev and clodyssey without personally identifaible info (my name [redacted] changes to anabology) ``` ### 21. Message 21 (37h 30m in) ```text oh sorry pause rq - can you give me a 1500x1500 album cover for this rq please? then go ahead and do the making of ``` ## What it looks like Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator. A detailed Windows XP desktop, with Luna-blue windows, the taskbar, yellow balloon tips, and the Bliss hill wallpaper, filled with photoreal shots of Claudia, a woman with a black bob, in Y2K high-fashion outfits. - Color: XP Luna blue and silver window chrome, the bright green hill and blue sky of Bliss with white clouds, and accents of red, orange, and apple green in her clothes. The boot screen is black with a blue loading bar. - Type: Tahoma-style system type throughout: white window titles on blue bars, balloon tips, search results in a "Macrohard Search" browser, and the clock in the tray. - Framing: Mostly full-screen desktop captures: overlapping windows over the wallpaper (a media player, a browser, a picture viewer), with Claudia inside windows or standing on the desktop. A few full-frame shots of the real hill and of her against clouds. - Sound: The creator's own Suno take of the song, with real Windows XP sound files placed in key on the beat, according to the making-of README. - Structure: A media player and a "Desktop Dancer" menu, a Macrohard Search for "how to go outside", the hill under a "Bliss is a real place" title bar, a balloon over the taskbar, "It looks like you're" beside a door opening onto grass, a picture viewer showing Bliss.jpg, the XP boot bar, Claudia in a cloud-print gown in a "Bliss" window, and the "Turn off computer" dialog over the hill. Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/storyboard.webp - Frame 1 at 10.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f1.webp - Frame 2 at 30.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f2.webp - Frame 3 at 50.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f3.webp - Frame 4 at 70.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f4.webp - Frame 5 at 90.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f5.webp - Frame 6 at 110.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f6.webp - Frame 7 at 131.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f7.webp - Frame 8 at 151.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f8.webp - Frame 9 at 171.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/bliss-macrohard-windows-xp-y2k-lyric/f9.webp ## How it was made, per the creator - One-shot: no - Agent time: About 19 hours from the first message to the finished video, 37.5 hours including release files and the making-of package - Reported spend: About $714 of Claude usage at API list prices (2.25B tokens on Opus 5.5 with 1M context, run on a subscription), plus $182 of Seedance 2.5 clips at list price. - Notes: Per the making-of README, the creator "directed and made every taste call, in 21 messages", and Claude was the production team: research, lyrics, storyboard, every prompt, the XP desktop engine, the edit, the sound layer, and the motion design. Claude ran six research agents, then 12 multi-agent workflow runs. It wrote 138 Midjourney prompts (315 images, 35 Animate loops) and used 43 of 50 Seedance clips. The final song take was the creator's own Suno generation. The real Bliss photo and real XP sound files are in the mix. The creator interrupted Claude 12 times, and the session sat idle for nine hours overnight on a permission prompt. The first message points Claude at the creator's earlier videos, ESCAPE VELOCITY and CLODYSSEY. ## Links - Watch: https://x.com/anabology/status/2106157622986748377 - Original post: https://x.com/anabology/status/2106157622986748377 - Making-of folder with every prompt (Google Drive): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aIbRs2f6sVpCxO4TGoBfBpaZXgHngphJ - Post sharing the making-of: https://x.com/anabology/status/2106473469441384788 - The previous video, CLODYSSEY: https://x.com/anabology/status/2105325733312884869