The short answer: No!
The long-winded, detailed answer that nobody cares about: No!

Reasons:
  • Someone who can write good lyrics will always be in demand, if only because he/she can contribute his/her own new(!) life experiences.
    Each AI can only bring to the table what was available when it was trained.
    Not always good yet, but it will get better with time
  • I have written songs with tears in my eyes, and some of the listeners to these songs have also cried.
    So far no one has ever seen an AI cry, at least not in public.
    But that doesn't mean that the AI can't create emotional songs if fed with good lyrics, see above.
  • I tested Suno extensively, if only because I've studied at an AI faculty and wanted to know what the state of play was.
    Even if nobody wants to hear it: telling Suno what to do is an art in itself.
    Just compare Rick's song with that dream-pop song (“These Hollow Hours”) he played later - the two are worlds apart.
    Of course, if you publish your prompt, others will just copy it, create a decent song (if the lyrics are good, see first point) and call it a day.
    You have given away your uniqueness for free.
    That is up to you.
    But this second song really WAS good!


What WILL sooner or later be irrelevant are studio musicians, the studios themselves and the entire chain from the recording of an instrument to the mastering of the song.
We are a community of musicians here.
Ask yourself: how many of you are multi-instrumentalists who can produce a song of this quality? (BIAB is very helpful here)
How many of you can mix at this quality?
How many of you can master at this quality?
Don't get me wrong, most AI songs have terrible artifacts, but in a year or three, even I would have a hard time telling them apart.

Am I happy about that?
Definitely not, especially because many professional musicians (those who don't tour) will find it difficult to make ends meet.
It breaks my heart.
But it is what it is, and ignoring it or just moaning about it won't change anything.
It's like electric (cough cough) guitars, drum machines, synthesizers and Autotune™.

Live with it and try to make something good out of it, because it won't go away.

(probably my longest post ever. If you've read this far: I love you all smile )

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