“Music” Monday: AI-AI-Oh My…
You may not have heard of them, but a new band, The Velvet Sundown, has racked up 100s of thousands of streams on Spotify.
Wait. Let me rephrase that.
A new “band”, The Velvet Sundown, which does not exist, racked up 100s of thousands of streams on Spotify.
I’m not surprised that someone created—wait, I mean asked an AI program to do this. When ChatGPT came out, there was a flood of AI generated books being listed on Amazon. Then came all the AI “art” and pictures showing up on social media, followed by AI videos.
So how did music lovers not know? Traditional recording has come a long way over the last 60 years and does rely a lot on digital technology to create the music we listen to. Sounds are crisp and clear, well blended, and unfortunately littered with effects like auto-tune.
I was curious (so you don’t have to be) about what “they” sounded like.
The verdict? Shit.
I searched YouTube and found the album, Echoes and Archives:
Boring pastel art, and the eyeball made me think of The Alan Parsons Project, but when I saw a “picture” of the “band”, I could tell that was AI generated. The “bass player” looks like the pawnshop owner in the movie, Men in Black.
So, you’re asking,. “Are the songs any good?”
No. Of course not. Generic, with each track sounding much like the last, lyrics filled with standard themes and tropes. I skipped through them so I wouldn’t be stuck with am AI earworm, although nothing was catchy enough.
Is this where music is going now? I sure hope not.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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