I Made a Song About #FC94AF and It Accidentally Sounds Like Taylor Swift
Updated: 3 days ago
#FC94AF is a color. A warm, pink-peach shade that sits somewhere between a sunset and a Polaroid left in the sun too long. Describing it in blog post wasn't enough. So I wanted to turn it into a rando song.
First, I generated the lyrics with Claude and uploaded it to Suno. Then I typed in this super basic prompt: "Female. Genre - Indie-pop / synth-pop • Tempo feel: Upbeat, mid-tempo bounce with a dreamy undertow". AI slop, I know. Guilty as charged.
ENTER.
Lowkey stunned. It came out sounding like a Taylor Swift drop. (Well, kind of.) I did NOT see that coming. Suno says its policies prohibit attempts to imitate specific artists and emphasizes originality. Despite telling the model not to imitate any existing artist, Taylor Swift still gatecrashed the party. (Girl boss doesn't give af.)
But there's something about breathy, confessional pop — a girl remembering a summer through a color — that apparently has an intriguing gravitational pull.
I Made a Song About #FC94AF and It Accidentally Sounds Like Taylor Swift: The idea behind the lyrics
Song created with AI. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Taylor Swift.
Listen: #FC94AF song 1 hour loop
Lyrics / Claude Opus 5
Music / Suno v6
The whole song is built on a simple premise: some memories have their own color. Not metaphorically — literally. You see a certain shade and your brain doesn't process "pink," it processes a person, a night, a version of yourself you will never get back.
Read more: Why a favorite shade feels so personal.
That's what #FC94AF became for me. Not a hex code. A place.
"Meet Me Under #FC94AF" — Song Lyrics
Female. Genre: Indie-pop / synth-pop Tempo feel: Upbeat, mid-tempo bounce with a dreamy undertow
Verse 1
Found you in a Polaroid, half stuck to the glass
Sun was going orange like it wanted to last
There's a shade that shows up when the evening gets slow
Not quite red, not quite gold — but I think you should know
It's the color of the streetlight buzzing on our block
The lipstick on your coffee cup you never wash off
It's the sky doing something it forgot how to do
And somehow every time I blink, I'm back with you
Pre-Chorus
Say it slow, say it right
Six little digits, one whole night
I don't need the name for this
I just need the way it hits
Chorus
Meet me under FC94AF
Where the neon's soft and the night won't pass
It's not a color, it's a place we go
Every time the sky starts to glow
FC94AF, FC94AF
Paint me back into that photograph
You don't gotta say it, I already know
Take me where the FC94AF glows
Verse 2
You left your jacket on my chair in June
I still catch it smelling like a warm July room
Peach clouds stacking up behind the water tower
We were killing time like it wasn't ours to power
I didn't know a hex code could hold a whole year
But I open up that swatch and suddenly you're here
It's the vending machine light on a 2 a.m. street
It's the one color code that made my whole life sweet
Pre-Chorus
Say it slow, say it right
Six little digits, one whole night
I don't need the name for this
I just need the way it hits
Chorus
Meet me under FC94AF
Where the neon's soft and the night won't pass
It's not a color, it's a place we go
Every time the sky starts to glow
FC94AF, FC94AF
Paint me back into that photograph
You don't gotta say it, I already know
Take me where the FC94AF glows
Bridge
Maybe it's not you I'm chasing anymore
Maybe it's the feeling waiting by the door
The version of myself who believed every scene
Could stay lit forever if I kept it FC94AF-clean
'Cause memory don't come in black and white to me
It comes in warm-skinned, gold-hour, hard-to-breathe
A color's just a number till it's someone that you knew
Now every time I see it, I fall right back to you
Final Chorus
Meet me under FC94AF
Where the whole world softens, where the past comes back
It's not a color, it's the one thing I keep
Buried in a swatch so I don't have to sleep
FC94AF, FC94AF
I built a whole religion round a photograph
You don't gotta say it, I already know
I still live inside that FC94AF glow
Outro
FC94AF... FC94AF...
Take me where the sky forgets to go dark
FC94AF... FC94AF...
Some colors keep the shape of where you are
The verses begin in a playful frolic. Polaroids, lipstick on a coffee cup, a streetlight buzzing on the block — small, concrete images rather than romantic drama. I wanted it to feel observational at first, like the singer is noticing the color everywhere before admitting why. By verse two, it gets more personal: a jacket left on a chair, the smell of a July room, the quiet math of "we were killing time like it wasn't ours to power." That's the moment the song stops being about a color and starts being about a person.
Read more: How light changes the way we see color.
The pre-chorus ("say it slow, say it right / six little digits, one whole night") is doing double duty — it's literally about saying a hex code out loud, but it's also about how hard it is to say what you actually mean.
Read more: How hex codes actually work.
The chorus is the whole thesis: "It's not a color, it's a place we go." I wanted #FC94AF to function almost like a proper noun — somewhere you could meet someone, not something you'd pick off a paint swatch. Repeating it like a place name is what makes it sticky.
The bridge is the turn — the moment the singer admits it was never really about the other person:
"Maybe it's not you I'm chasing anymore / Maybe it's the feeling waiting by the door."
That's the real meaning of the song. #FC94AF isn't nostalgia for someone. It's nostalgia for a feeling of aliveness that got attached to a color by accident, the way songs get attached to certain summers. The person is almost incidental — a placeholder for a version of the singer who still believed a moment could last forever.
Read more: Yayoi Kusama's pink-filled world.
Why it sounds the way it does
I Made a Song About #FC94AF and It Accidentally Sounds Like Taylor Swift: In hindsight, the Taylor Swift inspiration makes sense. The song leans on specific, almost mundane details (a jacket, a coffee cup, a water tower) instead of grand declarations, and it treats a color the way she'd treat a scarf or a red dress — as a stand-in for a whole relationship. That's not a style I set out to copy. It's just what happens when you write about memory in first person and let the details do the emotional work instead of saying the feeling outright.
So no, this ain't a Taylor Swift song. It's a song about a hex code that got a little too honest, and ended up sounding like one anyway.
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In case you're wondering, here's my lyric prompt:
Write original, catchy lyrics for a pop song inspired by #FC94AF, a vivid pink-peach color that feels warm, playful, dreamy, romantic, and slightly nostalgic.
Treat #FC94AF as more than a color. Make it feel like a memory, a person, a summer night, a secret feeling, or a world the singer wants to live inside.
The song should sound modern, melodic, youthful, and instantly memorable. Aim for lyrics that could work in an upbeat indie-pop or synth-pop song.
Rhyme and rhythm
Use clear end rhymes throughout the song. Build verses around rhyming couplets or an ABAB rhyme scheme. The rhymes should sound natural rather than forced.
Use a mixture of perfect rhymes and occasional slant rhymes.
Keep most lines short enough to sing easily. Use conversational language rather than complicated poetry.
Structure
Write approximately 3 to 4 minutes of lyrics using:
Verse 1
Pre-Chorus
Chorus
Verse 2
Pre-Chorus
Chorus
Bridge
Final Chorus
Outro
Chorus
Make the chorus extremely catchy.
The phrase "#FC94AF" must appear prominently in the chorus. Treat it almost like the name of a person or a place.
Create one short hook involving FC94AF that repeats several times and could become the line listeners remember after hearing the song once.
The chorus should be easy to sing along with.
Imagery
Use vivid details connected with the color without constantly saying "pink."
Possible imagery includes:
Neon reflected on wet streets
Sunset through bedroom curtains
Lipstick on a coffee cup
Polaroid photographs
Summer skies
City lights after midnight
Peach-colored clouds
Old love letters
Warm skin in evening light
A glowing phone screen
Dancing under convenience-store lights
Colors bleeding across photographs
Include at least one surprising image that listeners would not normally associate with a color.
Emotional idea
The singer discovers that certain memories seem to have their own color. Whenever they see #FC94AF, they remember someone or something they don't want to forget.
Begin playful and curious. Let the second verse become more personal. Make the bridge reveal the deeper meaning behind the color.
Finish with a final chorus that feels bigger and more emotional than the first. Avoid clichés such as "you complete me," "love of my life," or "heart on fire."
Do not imitate any existing artist, song, melody, or lyrics.
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Music prompt:
Female. Genre: Indie-pop / synth-pop Tempo feel: Upbeat, mid-tempo bounce with a dreamy undertow
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The prompts don't mention Taylor Swift once, no cap. Taylor, if you are reading this, this AI song made me appreciate your mastery for real. You are irreplaceable. Hell no.
Thank you for existing.
Listen: Want it on repeat? Put on the Meet Me Under #FC94AF indie-pop loop (1 hour).
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