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I'm gonna say what I always say about the "dead artists coming back with AI" thing:
Once the novelty wears off (+/- 6 months; by 2023 standards), listeners will only hear the hands of the profiteers who pump out the ghoulish drivel those bits of "content" will be. They, after all, or their flat-rate contractors will be writing the composi…
I'm gonna say what I always say about the "dead artists coming back with AI" thing:
Once the novelty wears off (+/- 6 months; by 2023 standards), listeners will only hear the hands of the profiteers who pump out the ghoulish drivel those bits of "content" will be. They, after all, or their flat-rate contractors will be writing the compositions, and they will not stand up to the live artist's original works qualitatively at all.
Remember, music is *made*; manure is "produced". The profiteers will ruin AI as a viable music generator (except for limited use-cases) within a couple years; through either saturation of low-effort low-quality "product", or competitive sabotage of each other's data models. When that goes down, you can still go see Taylor Swift, or Molchat Doma, or Trombone Shorty, or come have a few beers with any of my bands. Those experiences cannot be stolen or duplicated by any wanna-be Turing or Yetnikoff, however hard they try.
Well said, Shaggy.......and, is that a reference to long-ago CBS prez, Walter Yetnikoff?!? Goodness. I haven't heard that name (or Bruce Lundvall, for that matter) in 40 years! Like a wide receiver in crunch time of a tie game, Shaggy, you go deep!
Yep. Walter was one of the least-seen big wheels in the recording business; unlike Ahmet Ertegun and David Geffen, who liked to be out and about fairly often. But that didn't mean he didn't have neutron star-level pull when he wanted to.
Very cool! Finally, someone with whom I can talk '70s label CEOs & Veeps! I had never thought about that public perception, but now that you mention it (and, now that I set the Wayback Machine to that era!), you're so correct! Ahmet and Geffen, both, were certainly as up-front then (and, I'm not seeing it as vanity) as they, deservedly, are now, in the rear-view mirror surveying their respective careers!