It’s unignorable now, the rise of AI music – the sound of that increasingly human voice, the arbitrary lyrics with poetic threads of beauty, the vagueness and the catchy tunes. Mainstream platforms are supporting and promoting AI Music at large, with no musicians needed – no payments or support expected along the way.
It’s happening – AI is taking over mainstream music, and there’s very little we can do to stop it.
However, art and music are forever subjective, and our connection to them is vital in keeping the value and wonder of their appeal as important parts of our lives.
No matter how many AI songs you force into our ears, the fact will remain, that we connect with songs and singers, musicians and artists, because we feel what they feel.
The machines don’t feel anything. And that’s the end of the conversation.
Sons Of Legion have delivered a gorgeous performance of a huge AI hit this month, and have done so with real vocal nuance and feeling – with real, organic, unplugged musical skill. It’s a song that’s catchy enough to do them justice as a talented live band – and the live band aspect is a huge part of why AI music creation is anti-art and culture, but that’s another conversation. (Keep pushing the AI Bands, no need for grass roots venues, no opportunity for real talented humans to build a following or a career.)
While the song itself still lacks a sense of human experience and story, it’s now been gifted a lush performance, and this video, and their cover of the now infamous AI band Velvet Sundown, speaks volumes on behalf of what music really means to us, and why it’s such a universally loved artform, that we can never afford to lose.
Music saves lives, and not just because it sounds nice. It moves us in ways we can’t often find elsewhere, and in many cases, it moves us away from despair, and back towards hope and possibility.
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