So who is The Velvet Sundown? All characters, stories, music, voices and lyrics are original creations generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools employed as creative instruments. Any resemblance to actual places, events or persons - living or deceased - is purely coincidental and unintentional. Not quite human. Not quite machine. The Velvet Sundown lives somewhere in between.
It's a sad turn of events for songwriters and recording artists.
I think the quality of writing songs by humans could be better than what AI can currently do, but we all know that the quality of the song has nothing to do with its popularity.
I remember the lyrics to this popular song of the disco era:
||: Get up and boogie, Get up and boogie (That's right) Get up and boogie, Get up and boogie (That's right) Get up and boogie, Get up and boogie (That's right) Boogie, Boogie :||
Repeat ad nauseam
Most pop music is recycled simple themes both lyrically and musically, which is what AI does well. Of course, there are and have always been brilliant exceptions.
I'm glad I'm a live performer, and I was born in the 20th century. It'll be interesting to watch what happens now.
I wouldn't call that a breakthrough or a hit. Sure it's getting some streaming activity but I'm sure it'll be short lived.
Possibly mostly out of curiosity. I have to say that I really couldn't watch or listen for very long. It's horrible (IMHO).
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Just watching the fingers of the guitarist(s) in the video makes me queasy. Guess I just added to the streaming clicks...
Two days ago I listened to an NPR article by a professional music composer who acknowledged that AI was already better than he was at doing what he does, which was primarily soundtracks. Rather than being freaked out, he seemed awestruck. Wish I could find the link...
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I love how the singer has to move over to the mike and the sound remains the same.
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I love how the singer has to move over to the mike and the sound remains the same.
To be fair, an awful lot of conventional videos are just as irritating on that issue. Mouth movements vs voice projection mismatches, too.
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I'm all for AI moving forwards and creating hit records, and of course you can write your own hit as well, but for the majority of writers probably AI will be able to do it better.
Think of the positives, you can be the Colonel Tom Parker manager of your own AI band and reap most of the profits.
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I'm all for AI moving forwards and creating hit records, and of course you can write your own hit as well, but for the majority of writers probably AI will be able to do it better.
Think of the positives, you can be the Colonel Tom Parker manager of your own AI band and reap most of the profits.
I basically agree. If you want to use AI, great, if you don't, that's great too. It's a tool. Personally, I find AI-driven stem separation fantastic. And I find AI in science and technology even more astounding.
For those that oppose it, AI in music production will be here for a long, long time to come. As for the "Corner Bar", I find the video absolutely horrid and cartoonish, and the music only so-so.
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I'm reasonably tech oriented and have put AI to some personal tests FWIW, YMMV, boatloads of salt, etc. And yeah this is a bit off topic.
I find AI lyrics pedestrian, very obvious, and jammed full of forced rhymes. They read almost like Victorian prose, i.e., twisting the sentence around to get the rhyme word at the end. The "singers" are much much more impressive and have certainly been put to good use by some forum folks via the synth packages and Suno.
I find google AI overviews via my searches to be full of errors irrespective of my search topic. Some of the "how to do so and so's" are ridiculous. From carpentry, to bicycles, to how to find settings on operating systems, to how to set up apps, to Macs/iPhones, to history, to archaeology and on and on.
Medical inquiries are scary. From over the counter meds, to prescription meds, to supplements, to surgeries, to physical therapy and again on and on. I have always done medical internet searches based on peer reviewed well vetted journals, etc. The scary part? When an AI summary indicates the source I often find that it was misquoted or contextually incorrect. I will concede that they are often well written.
What works for me? I have 10,000 photos on google photos. The AI searches for a specific photo via a detailed description of what I'm looking for are excellent.
My concern is that given how well the net searches are constructed and professionally sounding many folks will assume the contained data is always valid.
Pardon the rant. Oh another thing. I've been a photographer for 65 of my 80 years. I've used a host of video/photo editors, etc. I find it amusing that some of the editors I've used for several years now declare themselves AI based when they are doing exactly the same thing, e.g., sky replacement, de-noise, sharpening, etc.
BTW, my mother left GA when she was 18 during WWII to go to New York where she became an IBM card punch gal. Early AI I reckon.
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