Frame from Lyric video staged on a Windows XP desktop
1. Message 1 (the brief)Full
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)
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)
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

Make it yours. 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.

Make it hereFree runs soon

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.

You'll need

  • 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
How it was made

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.

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.

Posted Oct 2, 2026 · X · 16k likes · 1.8M views · 747 comments

Prompt from: Direction log in their public making-of folder

Making-of folder with every prompt (Google Drive)

Post sharing the making-of

The previous video, CLODYSSEY

Look notesby Reference

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.

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