What is this?

Cut Up is a text randomizer. You can use it to find fresh ideas by randomizing old lyrics you have, or lyrics of songs you like. Or any text at all really.

How do I use it?

Paste text into the box and click randomize. Play around with the settings for interesting results!

What is the "cut up method"?

A method for writing lyrics popularized by David Bowie (or William Burroughs, I'm not sure). You can read more about it in this article.

Why so plain?

I think it looks and performs better this way.

Who made this?

Me. Here's my homepage.

What's next?

Here are some planned features:

  • Highlighting and saving lines from shuffled output for later
  • Show and compare multiple shuffles at once
  • Show shuffle "fragments" (2-4 lines) in rapid succession, like/dislike button for fast evaluation, save liked subsets for later
  • Export to .txt
  • Format output in common song formats, e.g. 4 line verses, 2 line choruses
  • Save shuffle history in browser storage
  • Pair lines that happen to rhyme