AI songs feel like samples
I decided to write this because today it is a day I am tired, just needed to work and play something on the background, not something I know the song just… something while I keep quiet and work… and I just couldn’t find it.
Ai music always sounds like a “sample” to me. That is the only way I can put it. Even songs I did like felt repetitive, missing something.
I’m no musician, I don’t know the name of most genres I like when I hear as song, much less have the knowledge to express myself regarding music so I can’t quite put the word into it. But the last few months it has been hard to find good music on youtube.
And I’m not talking as someone who is browsing music searches and then is like “AHAAAA! Let’s shit on this one!”, I mean as someone leaving autoplay while working and having to stop to go to next. I’m also not talking about hating one song and saying “Ha, I bet it is AI”, even though I do not like a lot of music styles.
From the perspective of whoever makes those songs, I should be a great audience, I shouldn’t be able to know if a song I’m not paying attention is AI, I do have niches that they are making more often, such as Japanese instruments + rock, or Celtic rock/techno, and to a lesser extent eletroswing… but I can’t sit still on their playlists… I end up stopping, sometimes checking on comments and… yeah, AI.
Cheerful songs I can tell because the voice never really changes tone, which is a bit funny to me because you’d think in a world people can enjoy vocaloid songs for 20 years that wouldn’t be the thing setting it back but it is.
Then there is even something that is meant to be repetitive such as chillstep or lofi there is something on my mind that goes “this seems off”. I’m pretty sure some AI bro with 290 IQ will say because I’m a 2D artist I’m just annoyed or something, but music is the one thing I figured I’d have to just live with it because there is too much, and I have zero skills on picking up, especially if I’m busy. This was just a night I had to click way too many times on the youtube tab I had open.
PS: I do think it is kinda funny that AI generated voice in general does look very real yet youtube takes the shittiest generator to auto-dub videos.