Disney World 2026TheLostSinglesCatalog

This whole thing started with an algorithm. In the weeks before we left, my wife was obsessed with a song that kept surfacing on her Instagram and TikTok, something about the airport in Puerto Rico, and she was days in before she found out it was AI-generated. Somewhere in there an idea landed: we love music, the trip was coming. Maybe a few songs about it would be a fun little trip activity. Twenty singles later, this catalog is what it grew into.

Most of these songs were experiments. I was learning Suno as I went, poking at it, stretching it, asking what's possible and what would this even sound like. There's a lot on the cutting room floor: dead takes and whole ideas that didn't survive the week.

Home base all week was Pop Century. It gets name-checked all over these lyrics. Most park days got two singles: an opener and a closer. The plan on the way out, the truth on the way back.

For the record: I think AI music mostly sucks. I don't enjoy listening to it, I think it's a bad deal for the people who actually make music (I'm in the Adam Neely camp on its hidden costs), and Suno's own CEO has claimed people "don't enjoy" making music, which tells you everything about how these companies see the thing I've loved my whole life. And the music itself doesn't have the life that people-made music has. Same as generated code: it's the statistical mean, and the mean is never going to surprise you.

And yet, for something like this, the music was always going to matter less than what's behind it — the memories it stirs up in our family. We've taken a lot of trips, and the craziness always fades away, but this time the ups and downs got caught in twenty songs, and songs don't fade. It gave the kids a way into the week, and they love their tracks; Frances still asks for the Jasmine song.

I never thought I'd end up with songs I'd want to hear again. But I catch myself humming parts of these, singing them, putting them on later for no reason. AI changed how I write software (there are things I'd never have attempted before that I don't hesitate on now), and I'm not equating the two, but this was the same move: prompt a little, think about a style, iterate a lot, throw most of it away, and end up with twenty songs I actually like. As a lifelong music fan and musician, I honestly don't know how to feel about that. But the family has its record now.