I think I found a person falsely uploading songs to an artist's discography
I think there is a person named "Deronda Simpson" uploading songs (potentially AI?) to Jesse L Martin's profile on Tidal.
A bit of context: i like listening to the "New Releases" every Friday. It's a fun way to find songs that are to my tastes and sometimes find a new favorite artist. I have also recently listened to Rent on a 2 hour drive for nostalgia. So, color me surprised when I hear a song called "Yellow Star" attributed to Jesse L Martin. Not just that, but the song is a sort of grim "parody" of All Star by Smash mouth in which the lead singer is talking about dying in a hospital, with a shockingly accurate impression of the lead singer of Smash Mouth.
Initially, I was just gonna leave the song be. Maybe Mr. Martin has range like that? But the more I listened and thought about it, it just became stranger to me. Why a parody of All Star that is so depressing? Why is it a solo? Why would a guy who has seemingly never done parodies before suddenly drop one now?
So, I decided to look around on the internet to see the coverage of the song. Crickets. Almost no coverage and what little there was didn't give any more information. A little annoyed but undeterred, I looked at the credits and discovered that the entire song (including the main vocals) were credited to a "Deronda Simpson". I had never heard that name before so I clicked on it to see what music that they had made before. Zero fans on tidal, no bio, no photo, and five songs (including Yellow Star) all attributed to Jesse L Martin. I gave them all a brief listen and they all sounded like different vocalists, with at least 2 being a woman singing. Their names were also strange, though I can't quite place why they look/sound so uncanny to me.
They are: Behind The Smile
Ghost At Sea
Kindness In The Snow
Ghost In Your Hometown
At this point, I am at an impasse. I can't find any information on this Simpson character, Jesse L Martin doesn't seem to have a public email, and Tidal services sent me to a "this page doesn't exist" tab when I clicked on it to report. So, I wanted to report my findings here to see what y'all thought of it. It's probably nothing but I still wanted to share.