{
  "id": 9014177,
  "title": "Snapchat will turn your messages into songs — if you pay for Lens+",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/snapchat-will-turn-your-messages-into-songs-if-you-pay-for-lens",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-21T21:17:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mashable",
    "slug": "mashable",
    "url": "https://mashable.com/life/snapchat-lens-plus-chat-to-song-new-features"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Snapchat unveils new AI features for premium Lens+ tier, allowing users to transform messages into song\n\nSnap announced a slew of new AI features for its premium Lens+ subscription tier on Monday, with the standout offering dubbed \"Create Song.\" Users can long-press a message in a chat and select \"Create Song,\" picking a genre like pop or rock to generate a short original track from the selected message. The preview feature lets users listen before sharing it with friends. For visual-oriented chats, AI-powered tools like \"AI Photoshoot\" and \"AI Remix\" aim to rescue near-miss Snaps by correcting blinks, awkward poses, bad lighting, and other issues. Additional features include a sticker tool that reimagines saved or received stickers and AI-enhanced fonts that can convert captions into bubble letters, spray paint, foam, or fuzzy textures. Snapchat+ already launched last year, offering exclusive lenses, augmented reality effects, generative tools like \"Imagine Lens\" for image creation, and AI Clips, which converts photos into five-second videos. These tools operate on a monthly generation allowance, with Lens+ priced at $7.99 per month. The new features are now rolling out worldwide in markets where Lens+ is available, though access may differ by region in the coming weeks. This move follows a busy week for Snap, which introduced Snapchat Plans, an event-planning feature that competes with Partiful. Despite the new AI tools, Snapchat's strategy focuses on premium chat enhancements rather than AI-generated videos, which remain unavailable in Spotlight, where users discover content from strangers. The real challenge lies in maintaining user interest as novelty fades. Snapchat+ boasts over 25 million subscribers, and the company is banking on the $7.99 Lens+ tier to sustain the heavy computational requirements of its AI features, drawing parallels to Meta's One.",
  "summary": "Snapchat's Lens+ now turns chat messages into AI songs. See how Create Song works, plus the new AI Photoshoot, AI Remix, sticker, and font tools.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}