Originally Posted By: bobcflatpicker
So let’s review:

We have BIAB because we can’t rely on our musician friends to show up, and even if they do, we can’t rely on them being sober enough to play.

We have AutoTune because we can’t sing in key.

Now we have “Automatic Lyric Generation” because we can’t come up with our own ideas for lyrics to a song.

I’ve already predicted that we’ll soon have Auto Solo because we’re not capable of playing a decent instrumental solo on our own. smile

What’s left? As soon as we figure that out, we can relieve ourselves from the burden of creating music!

All we’ll need to do is sit back and listen to what the computer programs have created for us.

Who needs musicians, singers and songwriters anyway?



There is an old song from 1986 by Reinhard Mey, a German singer-songwriter, who laments about this in his song "Musik wie von Hand gemacht". I've run the lyrics through Google translate and enhanced the English a little bit:

A piece of music made ​​by hand

(Song of Reinhard Mey)

Text taken from the "official Reinhard Mey website".

In the heyday of fast food civilization,
The standard opinion, the taste automation,
The plastic feelings and the high-tech lust,
The disposable one-way relationship with the frustration,
At the time of dreams to go from the Dream Factory,
The Mickey Mouse culture and music out of the socket.

Since I praise me a piece of music made ​​by hand,
Yet devised by a real man with his head,
A guitar that just sounds like a guitar,
And a voice that sounds as if someone is singing.
Hold a piece of music of flesh and blood,
All right, sometimes with a small error, which is good,
It gets going and works always and everywhere,
Also at the end of the world at night and power failure!

When the big, wild rock and rollers rock and roll,
With amazing laser show on the stage romps,
If the speakers are booming and the hall roof swings,
That takes me out of the break and the glasses jumps,
Then think I mind that, if now someone turns on the fuse,
The Rockstar quiet as a mouse, meek and in the darkl.

Chorus

When I use the bus and the ticket validator I
Can not operate and must dodge the fair again,
If the waterworks turn off the source,
Because I did not learn to understand you computer account,
If I have to accept that I can't activate the HiFi Tower,
Because I now even can not turn on the automatic switch.

Chorus

Until the day when they downsized me
Or simply rejected as non-programmable,
If the great computer monitors all
My preferences and quirks are powerfully grasped,
Even though I am already completely machine-readable
With a bar code on the willy and a checksum digit on the chin.

Chorus

Source: http://www.reinhard-mey.de/start/texte/alben/ein-st%C3%BCck-musik-von-hand-gemacht
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRbeXlAZAoc

Edit: I just checked the song's publishing year: 1986

Last edited by GHinCH; 10/20/14 04:54 AM.
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