Sureela Blog

On music, machines and the people in between.

Written by Zaib Khan, who makes every Sureela song. How this technology actually works, where it fails, and what it means for anybody who wants a song of their own.

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Music techWriting in Hinglish, and why machines struggle with it4 min read

Weddings

Your first dance should not be someone else's song

Why couples are commissioning original wedding songs instead of licensing a track everyone has heard, and what a personalised song actually costs in 2026.

August 7, 2026 · 3 min

Music tech

How an AI song is actually made, start to finish

The real workflow behind an AI-generated song: writing the lyric, engineering the style prompt, locking characters for the video, and the manual work nobody mentions.

August 5, 2026 · 3 min

AI music

What AI music gets right, and where it falls apart

An honest assessment of AI music generation in 2026: the things it genuinely does better than a session musician, and the four places it still reliably fails.

August 2, 2026 · 4 min

AI music

I made a music video that would have cost me $40,000

What a full music video actually costs, what it cost me to make one with AI instead, and the parts of it that still needed a person.

July 28, 2026 · 4 min

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