Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band
A supposed band called The Velvet Sundown has released two albums of AI slop this month.
A supposed band called The Velvet Sundown has released two albums of AI slop this month.
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Not to defend this garbage, but is radio pop music really distinguishable from ai slop?
People who actually care about music are not the target audience here.
I would argue it can be, even if it isn't always. I don't go for radio pop at all, but we can agree that it changes substantially over time right? Billie Eilish doesn't sound like Imagine Dragons, who in turn didn't sound like Britney Spears. New ideas are being brought to the genre and to popularity all the time, otherwise we'd still have Beatles soundalikes dominating the radio
Pop is a very broad category.
Imagine Dragons makes me vomit whenever I hear them
Thay are as basic as one can get, music for the lower common denominator; the production also sounds awfulllll. I hated hearing them in arcane.
The video for Radioactive with the underground muppet fighting ring is comedy gold, but I assume it was someone else's idea.
That's less of a defense of AI slop than it is a condemnation of the entire music industry.
I get not liking it, and there are some real clunkers, but I think you're dramatically underestimating the amount of craft and expertise that goes into some pop music.
I'm referring to the mass-produced crap I hear when I get a random ride. Obviously pop music can have artistic intent, but I feel like that's a small minority.
Even mass produced things require skill and sophistication. Pop music is more like a mass produced iphone than a mass produced frisbee.
Sure the lyrics aren't saying something important or the singer isn't the same person as the songwriter, but a lot of hours went into it. The average person on the street could not create a comparable song to what you hear on the radio without significant effort.
From a labour perspective I agree. From an artistic standpoint not so much. I was mucking around making random beats in fruity loops when I was twelve and there weren't even any tutorials.
Human music, I like it!
