AI country artist hits #1 on Billboard digital songs chart
: It sounds a lot like everything else
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It’s arrived. Predictable and disappointing nonetheless.
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AI country artist hits #1 on Billboard digital songs chart
: It sounds a lot like everything else
Reality done gone bye-bye. Welcome to the Weird Times.
"hey're the sort of hyper-generic songs one could only get by feeding a prompt into an AI trained on every bro country song ever recorded and asking it to spit out something that would appeal to the lowest common denominator of music fan, something it appears to have done with success."
That about says it all.
That about says it all.
Wait. You mean the last 10 years of 'country' music haven't been AI?
I sincerely pity the younger generations who are, and who will be, growing up with this nonsense - and who will have to deal with the impending fallout. I also pity myself for having to put up with this crap.
The 'song' is pure bro country tripe.
But my laptop seemed to be enjoying it.
But my laptop seemed to be enjoying it.
Wet-blanket 2 cents: Listening to this pablum even outta curiosity still tallies one more play in its favor. And promoting it by reposting if you're against it on principle is actually propagating the very thing you object to. Let's post things we like and things we make.
So, that tune, arrangement etc, is no different that the derivative copies of previously cloned formulas taken from original knock offs of covered remakes of tunes from 20 years ago? Wth is new or different? I mean, I can't find any value to criticize or compliment? Help...
Clutch is so good. Thank you for this glimmer of happiness in a day wading in $#!7
My sentiments exactly. It all sounds crappy. Too much auto-tune. As long as the singer's voice has a twang, and you say "the ol' red, white, and blue" or, "grandma and apple pie", blah blah blah, it sells.
I created this Playlist recently, MIHTL - Music I Hate To Love.
Don't open the link if you don't want to give AI music $0.0001 (or whatever Spotify pays) per play.
It's really f'ing good soul and funk versions of classic and indie rock. It's AI. And I'm embarrassed to admit how much I love these versions of these songs.
And there will be those who say how generic or hollow or soulless it is. And I would challenge anyone who didn't know it was AI to be able to identify it as such.
I hate that AI is making music this good. I hate that it's impacting hard working, trained musicians who already don't get paid enough. I tried to avoid it as long as possible, but alas here I am apologetically loving these tunes. In fact I've been inspired by the bass lines and have been starting to transcribe some of them. They are great studies in a style that I want to study more deeply. I am (and have been) studying originals too.
One of the projects, The Professor Nick Harrison seems to have a real person behind it. Maybe he's even singing on those tracks? I don't know...
Anyhow. Sorry I love it. And I hate that I do.
Don't open the link if you don't want to give AI music $0.0001 (or whatever Spotify pays) per play.
It's really f'ing good soul and funk versions of classic and indie rock. It's AI. And I'm embarrassed to admit how much I love these versions of these songs.
And there will be those who say how generic or hollow or soulless it is. And I would challenge anyone who didn't know it was AI to be able to identify it as such.
I hate that AI is making music this good. I hate that it's impacting hard working, trained musicians who already don't get paid enough. I tried to avoid it as long as possible, but alas here I am apologetically loving these tunes. In fact I've been inspired by the bass lines and have been starting to transcribe some of them. They are great studies in a style that I want to study more deeply. I am (and have been) studying originals too.
One of the projects, The Professor Nick Harrison seems to have a real person behind it. Maybe he's even singing on those tracks? I don't know...
Anyhow. Sorry I love it. And I hate that I do.
It's all good . . . the singer loses his cheating wife who left their mobile home in his pickup truck to live with his best friend, and now our AI cowboy can drink 50 PBR's, no chance of a DUI arrest or even a hangover, and his Mama will still be proud of him.
Gee, that'll put Country Music outa business !
And when was it sounds like everything else NOT the plan?
Think about it. Why would the music business be unlike any other industry that can replace human beings with all their troubles and expense with automation and it's fixed costs and reliability, especially when it makes zero difference to your customers?
Gee, that'll put Country Music outa business !
And when was it sounds like everything else NOT the plan?
Think about it. Why would the music business be unlike any other industry that can replace human beings with all their troubles and expense with automation and it's fixed costs and reliability, especially when it makes zero difference to your customers?
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