Thursday Thoughts: A-I-A-I not again…
I’m no country music expert, but…
What passes as country music today isn’t … well, isn’t that good, and it hasn’t been for a while now. Granted, music like any artform evolves, but can we lay off the young male, low voice, rap crap?
Seems like all the new songs are written in a predictable, formulatic way, and sung by the same male vocalist.
Wait. They actually are!
In this case all by the same artist. That’s the state of country music, I guess.
I read on time that there was an isolated valley in Africa where a pride of lions lived that was having health issues because of lack of genetic variety due to inbreeding.
Lack of variety is bad? I’ll agree with that. Also, this lack of variety is making it easier for computer intelligence to influence humanity.
Case in point? One of the #1 hits on the country charts this week is an AI generated song called “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust. Generic names and titles aside, it’s not very good.
Definitely not good enough to chart in my opinion.
Definitely not good enough to warrant sharing it. Look it up if you are curious.
Speaking of generic country, there’s a streaming show called Letterkenny about a bunch of Canadian farm hicks, and in one episode they wanted to write a hit country song and they tried to use all the clichés they could.
Definitely better than the AI crap.
-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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