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.
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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