Why I’m Not Completely Worried About AI and Country Music
Popular music was long ago corrupted by ones and zeros, algorithmic optimizations, electronic mimicry, metadata mining to analyze appeal, and the general eradication of the human element to make it significantly more palatable to the masses, and measures more vapid and fleeting in importance. The onslaught of new AI tools will only help further automate and simplify that process in the continued corruption of audio entertainment into cold and soulless product.
An ominous new suite of AI options such as ChatGPT have some experts especially troubled. The tool is capable of auto generating song lyrics with extreme precision, and can even specifically tailor them to a style or a specific artist. Country music YouTuber Grady Smith messed around with this a while back to create lyrics for specific artists like Morgan Wallen, Miranda Lambert, and Zach Bryan’s “All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster,” for example (see below).
ChatGPT is certainly arresting in it’s capability, and potentially cataclysmic for certain segments of the music and songwriting industry since it could render some actual human songwriters obsolete, similar to how drum machines, synthesizers, and the producer class have eaten into music’s human capital, including in country music in recent years.
The concern isn’t just for music itself. ChatGPT could also generate an article such as the one you’re reading right now, making yours truly unnecessary too. There are already websites that operate under this AI model, including in country music. Rest assured that more of these websites are coming online every day as journalists and outlets get bombarded with emails selling software to automatically generate articles with AI. Colleges and universities are especially worried since this might mean the end of the traditional term paper.
But I’ll tell you why I’m not entirely worried about this development, at least when it comes to country music, or specifically the good type of country music that we all enjoy around here. Sure, to many of the professional songwriters on Music Row who already do little more than rearrange the same 50 words into the same basic formulaic structures for producers to then assign to pop stars to sing through auto-tuners, this is a terrible development. Their proprietary value was already dubious to start. Now they’re up against AI bots that can spit out a lifetime’s worth of these songs in seconds and probably in a superior fashion, and can even cater them to the personalities of specific artists.
Obviously there are moral conundrums all over the place here. Will the public be alerted when a song is AI generated? Will they even care? Will an AI song win a Grammy? Will it lose its Grammy once it’s found out like Milli Vanilli? Can an AI bot earn songwriting royalties, or a certain cut of them if it helps create a song? Do those royalties and songwriting credits go to the engineer of the AI tool?
These are all questions Roy Acuff and Fred Rose never had to grapple with back in 1942 when they founded the important publishing company Acuff-Rose, and laid the rules out for songwriting that are still more or less in practice today. These are also questions that the music industry should grapple with now, and before things like ChatGPT become so prolific, music ends up behind the curve as opposed to in front of it, and it gets overrun.
But country music, and really all roots music art forms may be a bit better insulated from some or most of the concerns AI raises. Why? Because of all of the options in the popular music diet, country music is the one that still insists that the music should come from human actuations—fingers impressed on strings that once plucked, resonate wood to create sound. Words and stories aren’t just secondary dressing to catchy beats and simple melody, they’re often more important than the music itself in country, Walker Hayes and Sam Hunt notwithstanding.
As popular music has become more electronic and automated, the importance and appeal of country music has only been more enabled because it’s unique in the marketplace for being organic. For years, music pundits outside of the country realm peering into the genre have pontificated that country music must relent to the proliferation of EDM and hip-hop influences, or risk extinction. These days, the most popular trend in country music is country music. Country music sounds more country in its popular forms right now than any time in the last 10 or 12 years.
In real country music, the beauty of it is in its imperfections and the presence of human frailty, and its inherently organic nature. What do you think twang is? It’s singing or playing above or below where a note is supposed to be. Can or will AI be able to emulate these kinds of things eventually too? Probably, but the overall purpose of AI and technology is to make things easier, more efficient, and more perfect. This is counterintuitive to how (at least, ideally), country songs are composed and recorded.
And as AI technology continues to promulgate throughout popular music, country and roots music will continue to distinguish itself as the last bastion of music served with a human touch in a way that will separate it from the herd. Country music should insist that AI-generated lyrics and music is out of bounds for the genre. Perhaps it’s acceptable in hip hop, pop, and EDM, and maybe even advantageous for the aims of those art forms. But that ain’t country.
How will you know when a country song was created by humans as opposed to AI? Trust me, you will know. Just like you know now when an artist uses auto-tune, or electronic drums, or tries to pass themselves off as something they are not. Country music can’t be defined by words, or even by what instruments are utilized. Country music is a feeling. And either that feeling is there, or it’s not.
But more practically, there should be labeling on music so you know where it came from, just like food. It should be marked 100% certified organic, or have a list of the artificial ingredients that went into making it so that way consumers can make informed choices. The insistence by the industry for proper musical labeling should start right now, today. Because AI is here, and powerful, and will corrupt the music landscape in quick order if it is not addressed.
But friends, country music will be okay. Let others listen to artificial intelligence-generated manufactured superstars singing AI-generated lyrics laid over AI-generated music. We’ll be out here raw dogging it, hanging out in bacteria-infested honky honks where you can see the sweat bead on the brow of the performer, and the spit pummel the microphone, and swear they’re singing every single lyric right to you.
Or we’ll be on back porches and bluegrass gatherings, hearing the ring of wood and wire conjoined with the soaring of harmonies that make your skin break out in chill bumps and stir the soul like little else. Because the most potent way to exhilarate human emotions is to share experiences with each other in real time, straight from the heart, and uncorrupted by technology.
And that, my friends, will never die.
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Trigger
January 25, 2023 @ 9:16 am
I have the perfect anecdote for this. Tuesday night at Mile 0 Fest down here in Florida, Ian Munsick took the stage without a bass player, basically playing to a backing track that included bass, backup singers, electronic beats, all kinds of stuff. The crowd sniffed it out IMMEDIATELY. Some people still had a great time I’m sure, but it was clear this was something other than what folks expect at a Red Dirt/Country/Americana festival, and a ton of folks creid foul. That’s fine for some genres. Not for country.
Di Harris
January 25, 2023 @ 10:46 am
Hope Ian Munsick learned his lesson.
We can all create instrument karaoke.
There’s cheap – and then there’s, get him, and anyone else pulling this crap, off the stage
Strait86
January 25, 2023 @ 11:28 am
Without a band it’s just karaoke.
Douglas Trapasso
January 25, 2023 @ 6:10 pm
I’d like to think that if the songs were decent then the performer could present them simply with his/her voice and maybe a live guitar or piano as backup.
SOMETHING needs to be live. That’s what the servers/bartenders/etc. expect when they clock in for their shift.
Neil Young’s Potatos
January 26, 2023 @ 6:37 am
“ERNEST” did not have a bass player at the Greenville Country Music Festival. It would have still been bad even with a live bass player, though.
Trigger
January 26, 2023 @ 9:08 am
Did you still hear bass on stage? Ray Wylie Hubbard sometimes doesn’t play with a bass player. But then you just don’t have bass. You do the dead thumb blues.
Neil Young’s Potatos
January 27, 2023 @ 5:16 am
Yes, there was bass. The band was clearly playing along with tracks. Many artists do this and there is nothing inherently wrong with it, but let’s not pretend “ERNEST” is authentic.
To be fair, they could have tracks ready in case someone is sick or otherwise can’t play and he normally tours with a bass player.
Trigger
January 27, 2023 @ 8:02 am
Another anecdote from Mile 0 Fest: Sunny Sweeney has a badass chick bass player. For whatever reason, she was unable to travel with them to Key West. They found another bass player and he was practiced up, ready to go in 24 hours. He didn’t miss a note. That’s how it’s done.
This is one of the huge divides between true country music, and mainstream country music. True musicians would never even ponder playing to a backing track.
DoubleJ
January 25, 2023 @ 9:56 am
Beautifully written! Keep it real folks!
The other Rusty
January 25, 2023 @ 10:01 am
There are already a lot of fake performers out there. In the Detroit, Michigan, area, I have seen local bands (pre-covid) who were probably singing but were definitely NOT playing their instruments. Now, I don’t play guitar or bass, but I can identify different finger positions on those instruments and can also hear when the chords & bass notes change on the backing track. Needless to say, the guitarists’ and bassists’ fingers were not always in sync with their backing tracks. It they hadn’t been performing for free outdoor concerts, I would have demanded my money back.
For that matter, I don’t ever want to listen to any frauds who use auto-tune to “sing.”
Strait86
January 25, 2023 @ 11:27 am
Lloyd Green (pedal steel player) said in an interview that technology allows mediocrity to rise to the top.
So true.
Jake Cutter
January 25, 2023 @ 10:56 am
Yeah, AI is just the latest attack on the human element of music. Way before even the “ones and zeros” and autotune, things like overdubbing and multitrack tape machines changed everything. It’s amazing to me what most people have already swallowed in terms of machine made and fomulaic music. But as the expression goes, whenever there is a challenge there is an opportunity. Even your mainstream normie might get tired of the over saturation of machine made music at some point. And who knows, being able to actually play an instrument might become cool again.
Stellar
January 25, 2023 @ 1:11 pm
Honestly there’s no way this is going to be worse than what human songwriters put on the radio in the 2010’s. Maybe the listicle song will finally go out of style once robots write another hundred of them
Neil Young’s Potatos
January 26, 2023 @ 6:40 am
ChatGPT, write a song worse than “Musta Had A Good Time” by Parmalee
Blackh4t
January 25, 2023 @ 1:23 pm
Hmmmm, not sure. I mean, its like how, now that better music is in vogue, the machines that is Nashville is starting to crank out the art used to be special.
Zach Bryan worked out that you can combine Twitter with the more popular underground sound (Childers, Colter Wall etc) and produce unlimited albums that sound authentic. An A.I. will be capable of this.
I could even see it making melodies that are heart tearing. I remember reading an article years ago exploring which note combination created emotions (i.e. ‘the blue note’), and if humans can work it out, AI will have no problem.
Ryan Adams showed how easy it was to make pop sound heartfelt on 1989. All this is easy.
Humans are so easily manipulated, so yeah, I see a future where AI does a lot of work, and a bunch of us will be listening to ‘certified genuine’ work and making ourself believe we can hear the difference. We’ll be like wine snobs.
Trigger
January 25, 2023 @ 1:41 pm
Dude, independent country/Americana fans are already the wine snobs of music. Why do you think everyone starts hating on stuff as soon as it starts to get popular?
Blackh4t
January 25, 2023 @ 5:29 pm
I know its a rhetorical question, but I’ll answer it anyway.
Its because music is a shared experience. If you meet another John Prine fan, you can be pretty sure that you have a shared appreciation of songwriting in general, humour, satire, other similar songwriters, more famous singers who covered them etc.
However if you meet a Tyler Childers fan, there is a good chance that they have never heard anything like him before and not interested in anything similar.
Its like your favourite fishing spot that only you and a few buddies know about. It doesn’t feel so good anymore when a bunch of tourists are going there everyday with no understanding of what you believe makes it special.
And yes, to finish the metaphor, I think Zach has identified everything we liked in a fishing spot and created it for us. Some of us just think it feels artificial and calculated even if there is no difference between the end product.
Obviously many people believe ZB is sincere and his music gives them joy and that is a great thing.
In the future, I can see another generation finding a form of sincerity in A.I. assisted music and loving that equally.
Rich
January 25, 2023 @ 6:10 pm
This is so damn true Trigger. Made me laugh out loud. At myself for being one of the snobs. Fantastic piece btw. It should be standard reading for every kid in a music business class at Belmont. Music is a feeling. Damn right
Bill Turner
February 4, 2023 @ 11:22 pm
Indie radio stations too, I’m afraid….
Angelo Rinaldi
January 25, 2023 @ 1:40 pm
I’d rather listen to AI-generated lyrics than those written by Music Row tools such as Dallas Davidson.
Kevin C.
January 25, 2023 @ 2:04 pm
Something I’d be curious about (he may have explored this in the video; I haven’t watched the whole thing yet).
Say you give ChatGPT the same subject, but change artists (e.g. “Write a Zach Bryan song about ____” then “Write a Luke Bryan song about ____”. Could you actually tell which was which?
Mud
January 29, 2023 @ 4:43 pm
Thought I’d try this out. Here is a Zach Bryan song about heartbreak, according to ChatGPT:
Verse 1:
Broken pieces of my heart
Laying on the floor
You said goodbye, now I’m falling apart
Can’t take it anymore
Chorus:
Cause you were my everything
My sun, my moon, my stars
But now you’re gone, and I’m left with nothing
My heart’s in pieces, it’s torn apart
Verse 2:
Remember all the love we shared
The laughter, the tears, the nights
Now I’m just a memory, you don’t even care
Left alone in the dark, with no end in sight
Chorus:
Cause you were my everything
My sun, my moon, my stars
But now you’re gone, and I’m left with nothing
My heart’s in pieces, it’s torn apart
Bridge:
I thought we’d last forever
But love can turn to dust
Now I’m picking up the pieces
And trying to adjust
Chorus:
Cause you were my everything
My sun, my moon, my stars
But now you’re gone, and I’m left with nothing
My heart’s in pieces, it’s torn apart
Outro:
I’ll find love again, I’ll mend my heart
And I’ll move on, stronger than before
But you’ll always be a part of who I am
And the love I once had, that I still adore.
And here’s a Luke Bryan song about heartbreak:
Verse 1:
I thought you were the one for me
But now I’m sitting here, drinking my tea
Thinking ’bout the way you said goodbye
Left me here with just a shattered heart and a lie
Chorus:
Broken heart, broken dreams
Another love story ends in heartbreak it seems
You took the light that once shined so bright
Left me with this pain, this endless night
Verse 2:
I thought we had something real, so strong and true
But now I’m just another memory, nothing left to do
I gave you all my love, my heart and soul
But you tore it apart, let it go
Chorus:
Broken heart, broken dreams
Another love story ends in heartbreak it seems
You took the light that once shined so bright
Left me with this pain, this endless night
Bridge:
I’m not gonna let this heartbreak define me
I’ll pick up the pieces and find my destiny
I’ll find love again, and love it will be
Cause this heart of mine was made to beat
Chorus:
Broken heart, broken dreams
Another love story ends in heartbreak it seems
But I’ll keep moving on, and find my way
I’ll find the light, chase the shadows away.
(I don’t think the Luke Bryan song really sounds like him — no tight jeans, tailgates, cold beer, etc.)
Brian
January 25, 2023 @ 2:38 pm
The results are mixed…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPs6wdM7S3U
Craig
January 25, 2023 @ 3:41 pm
I’ve been thinking about this some lately. I’m a writer and a software developer, and I guess it is technically possible for some AI to query a database according to an algorithm and arrange words in an unexpected way that opens the reader’s mind to a new perspective on human existence. And if so, why not? That doesn’t mean that human writers will go away. I mean the purpose of art is to expand and enrich the human experience. If a software program can do that, then the person who wrote the code is the artist and whatever it spits out is the art. Including music. Corb Lund is technically a biological machine. He was created by the iterative process of evolution, and finished by the iterative process of accumulating experience on top of his DNA. Technically, all code. Anyway, ‘human’ or ‘bespoke’ art will always have a market, same way that hand made saddles or suits have a market now. Good essay Trigger. Cool subject.
Paul Butterbutt
January 26, 2023 @ 1:05 pm
Now, this is a thought provocating comment. Thank you for this. Let me stew on this…
Paul Butterbutt
January 26, 2023 @ 2:08 pm
Perhaps im neutral cause I have no skin in the game. But I struggle to see the differences between AI and modern-day creativity. Everything we do is based off of our selective inspirations which is how AI works. And the argument thats says the first person experience is needed to be art, how different is the human experience from one person to another? Modern day experiences are documented. something AI would pull from. So I guess what Im saying is, perhaps AI will force artists to finally create something entirely new instead of rehashed music with our version thats only slightly different from another persons version. I mean, when was the last time you heard a song that was truly new and didnt take from anything that already existed?
Paul Butterbutt
January 26, 2023 @ 2:35 pm
But to argue against my own point, it’s likely impossible in the modern world to not be influenced unless you live in a cave! haha
I do remember a story about Randy Rhoads on his original take on the guitar where he said he never listened to modern music growing up so he wasn’t influenced. Hence, his classical influence.
Kevin Smith
January 25, 2023 @ 5:23 pm
The more removed humans get from reality, the less happy we ultimately will be. I won’t get conspiratorial, no need to, just read up on all the big plans the tech billionaires and elite financiers have for society. It’s Orwellian scary. There are ramifications to every action. We are dumbing down people and removing individuality. Songwriters were at one point, artists and creative souls to be admired. This is the future of music???!!! Really??!! Yeah, no thanks. I will be the wood and wires guy with my 53 Gibson acoustic and my telecaster playing with other like-minded old school souls.
David: The Duke of Everything
January 25, 2023 @ 5:37 pm
Well after the robots that we have built to fight wars for us, decide to turn on their creators and take over, we will probably have cyber bands and singers. At least the few still around to hear it. At that point, these programs won’t concern us too much.
wocowboy
January 26, 2023 @ 2:57 am
AI could have been used for years in the country music industry. Listen to any song on the radio for the past several years and the references to “girl, bed of my truck, red dirt road, tailgate, etc etc etc” could be written by any simple AI. The formulaic song-writing is easy to spot. The entire bro-country era could be attributed to AI, and it continues today.
Strait86
January 26, 2023 @ 5:04 am
There should be a push-back against the acceptance of live pitch correction software. It’s even used in Worship services in churches. It’s seems disingenuous to accept that but reject AI in other ways in music.
Moses Mendoza
January 26, 2023 @ 7:01 am
Even if someone were to take AI generated lyrics and package them into a song, they’d still likely be generating tons of AI lyrics and then choosing those combinations, so it’s unlikely to see much music reach the market divorced from a human hand.
But bigger picture, if you think about how important the context of the artist’s life is to listeners, there’s no way the genuine country (or folk, Americana, underground hip-hop, etc) crowd is going to embrace AI generated music. If people won’t listen to songs because the songwriter wrote a problematic tweet or supports gun control, they’re perfectly capable of rejecting songs written by computers.
DJ
January 26, 2023 @ 7:17 am
It’s a slippery slope…
“artificial”… = not real.
“intelligence” is questionable and subjective.
Well written article, Kyle… as usual, honest to a fault.
I’m glad I’m 75. If I were younger and as full of piss and vinegar as I was when I was younger, I’d wind up dead or in jail…
How long before it’s illegal to denounce alleged (artificial) intelligence because it’s hateful and hurt code writers feelings? One of the reasons I was banned from a guitar message board was because I denounced artificial intelligence and one of the favored, (by the glorified hall monitors, called “moderator”), didn’t like that I told another member who did AI stuff that I didn’t care what he did for a living…
And the “bots” in the District of Criminals are worried about Tik-Tok… LOL… bless their little artificial hearts, with questionable intelligence…
Scott S.
January 26, 2023 @ 7:25 am
Interesting article and video. I could see how a tool like this could actually be helpful even to a legitimate artist. If you are writing lyrics for a song but getting stuck making it work, a tool like this could be used to provide ideas, kinda like a thesaurus for writers.But as a primary tool for writing a song, I think people would feel the difference between generated lyrics and ones written from experience and heart.
But who knows? Much of todays popular and fan accepted music is computer generated already. Most pop music is nothing more than someone singing/rapping over loops and beats. Even someone like myself with a barely novice level of music ability can hop on GarageBand on my computer and make a song from loops provided with the program. Maybe the next step is computerized vocals and performing robots.
Trigger
January 26, 2023 @ 9:11 am
The original point of Auto-tune was that if you were in the studio and the singer turned in a great performance, but one note was a bit off, you could go back and pitch correct it. I have absolutely no problem with that, just like fixing a cymbal crash that was just too early or late. If you wanted to use an AI tool to help you rhyme a word, I guess that would be mostly harmless. A thesaurus might be a good idea too. But I would take issue with that. When it’s an entire song, that’s when you get to the dilemma, especially how in music you must account for the songwriters for rights.
Scott S.
January 26, 2023 @ 9:20 am
Exactly. When does a helpful tool become a complete replacement for creativity?
Michael P
January 26, 2023 @ 7:57 am
Nick Cave recently addressed this, and as usual, his comments are thoughtful: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/
Still hard to believe that’s the same guy who fronted The Birthday Party…
Howard
January 26, 2023 @ 12:47 pm
Speaking of lists … Trigger, could you provide a definitive list of which artists are using Auto-Tune and which aren’t? I assume Sam Hunt and Walker Hayes are, because they make it so obvious that it must be a calculated part of their sound. I also assume Taylor Swift was and still is, because she never comes close to sounding like she does on her recordings in person. In fact, I’ve heard that Auto-Tune can be, and is, inserted into the audio chain at concerts, so who knows, maybe EVERYONE is cheating. Any enlightenment from you on this front?
Trigger
January 26, 2023 @ 12:49 pm
That may be a hard list to compile because you never know 100%. A lot of production people are forced to sign non disclosure agreements saying they won’t divulge such things. I definitely don’t think everyone is using it, but if you go to a mainstream festival, there is a good chance somebody is.
Strait86
January 26, 2023 @ 12:55 pm
I’d venture to say it’s the norm to be using it once the production is big enough. Assuming one can hear pitch, a good way to tell is if the artist sounds perfect in a live performance. Unless it’s Vince Gill.
Hearing an artist sing a little flat on a given note is expected
Howard
January 26, 2023 @ 1:34 pm
Would it be a game changer for you as a fan if Zach Bryan or Cody Johnson were using it now that both are somewhat mainstream?
Strait86
January 26, 2023 @ 12:58 pm
Auto Tune and Pitch Correction mean two different things even though it is essentially the same software. T-Pain obv uses a ton of auto tune. An artist like Kenny Chesney would use pitch correction software to essentially bend a flat note to the correct pitch. If done correctly it wouldn’t be noticed.
I didn’t know until recently that using pitch correction software is common in worship services in larger churches.
The other Rusty
January 26, 2023 @ 3:55 pm
Maybe some day we’ll have “organic” labels for music, certifying that the performer is actually singing and playing a real instrument without any electronics to “correct” their pitch!
Geez, I’m sure all of us commenting here know a whole bunch of singers/musicians who can actually play and sing in key! So why do the imposters who need “pitch correction” get placed on pedestals as if they are the top performers? It sure seems bass-ackwards to me.
I always preferred “live” albums because it sounded more like real people playing and singing, and you could hear even great musicians sometimes play the wrong note. That always gave hope to the rest of us, that we could get by with sometimes playing a wrong note.
Scott S.
January 28, 2023 @ 7:35 am
Back in the 70s when synthesizers were beginning to become the new rage in music, the rock band Boston began putting labels on their albums certifying them as being free of synthesizers with all instruments played by the band.
DJ
January 26, 2023 @ 4:07 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-hB-4fnqtM
1/3 of universities will go broke in 5 years
Harlan Gary Lebow
January 26, 2023 @ 5:08 pm
Will Always Love Hank’s Music. Hope Jett comes to within 150 Miles of south Monroe County, Ga. before I go to country music heaven.
Sam
January 26, 2023 @ 10:25 pm
I asked Chat GPT to “Write a bro-country song about getting drunk that name checks Johnny Cash and Hank Williams.” Here’s the result…
I’m feeling good, it’s Friday night
Gonna find a party, gonna make it right
Gonna drink some beer, gonna shoot some whiskey
Gonna sing some songs, gonna make some frisky
Chorus:
Gonna get drunk, gonna get wild
Gonna raise a glass, gonna raise a smile
Gonna sing some Cash, gonna sing some Williams
Gonna party like a rockstar, gonna live it up and kill it
Verse 2:
I got my buddies, they’re all here
We’re gonna drink, we’re gonna cheer
We’re gonna raise a toast, to the good times
We’re gonna make some memories, that’ll last a lifetime
Chorus:
Gonna get drunk, gonna get wild
Gonna raise a glass, gonna raise a smile
Gonna sing some Cash, gonna sing some Williams
Gonna party like a rockstar, gonna live it up and kill it
Bridge:
We ain’t got no worries, we ain’t got no cares
We’re just a bunch of bros, living life without a prayer
We’ll sing “Ring of Fire” and “Family Tradition”
And drink until the morning light, with no condition
Outro:
So come on, let’s raise a glass
To Johnny Cash and Hank Williams
We’ll get drunk, we’ll get wild
And party like there’s no tomorrow.
Howard
January 27, 2023 @ 1:26 am
That’s awful. Country music has nothing to fear from AI if this is the best it can do.
First, no bro-country song written by human beings would ever reference “a bunch of bros”; bro-country is a pejorative label used by music critics, not a neutral subgenre description a fan might use, like “traditional country” or “country-rock.” Other elements are just plain awkward: “Drink until the morning light, with no condition”? “Living life without a prayer”? “Gonna live it up and kill it”? Sorry, that’s just word salad, disconnected from anything a human being might compose — although “Gonna make some frisky” could have been thought of by whoever it was who came up with “If he ever singles you up.”
Sam
January 27, 2023 @ 6:15 am
Including “bro” in my prompt for the AI was a joke. 😉
As bad as it is, it gives Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, FGL, etc, a run for their money.
Doug Carter
January 27, 2023 @ 7:08 am
With a formulaic backing track and maybe, but not necessarily, a lyrical tweak or two, I can easily envision idiots scream singing that song on a Saturday night.
CountryFan
January 27, 2023 @ 11:17 am
You mean that computers have NOT been creating the insipid dreck that has been masquerading as country music for the past 20+ years?
So how much worse could it be?
Kevin C.
January 27, 2023 @ 6:13 pm
Follow-up: Google is working on a program to generate/arrange the music (instead of just the lyrics).
If you scroll about 2/3 of the way down the page at https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/ , you can see a “Genres” list including a 10 second sample of their attempt at a country song.
The Wanderer
February 6, 2023 @ 9:06 am
Raw dogging…haha. I’m dead.