country music is the perfect genre for AI generation. like 9/10 country are just shallow virtue signalling like theyre running down a checklist -truck ✅ -beer ✅ -dirt road ✅ -said country 4 times in the chorus ✅ -weird condescending dislike of cities you've never been to ✅ -"this is better than everything and i know because im 28 and have never left kentucky" ✅
I just wish generative AI used for things like images and music just stayed slightly shit so we wouldn't need to worry about it actually replacing humans but still could use it for casual goofs and gags like this.
Yeah I’m nostalgic for 2021-22 era AI where people were feeding in every lyric of a song and editing it together and that was a trend and consistently hilarious. When it wasn’t good enough that people would start actually pretending they drew it or using text generative AI to cheat at school, when it was shit enough to be consistently funny in what it reveals about the corpus it’s trained on. When it was shit enough to be genuinely art on some level because whenever you were using it you were making a funny joke about the corpus it’s trained on It’s still funny to make it generate text though- image models are illiterate because they have no way of knowing how letters combine into words- Matt Rose has done some great videos on this
AI content that is just funny or creepy is great. Cuz it’s uncanny, close to being human but not human enough. But with the improvements to AI, it’s closer to what an example of bad art that a person new to creating is capable of. And that’s scary.
@@jaytotheareokay it doesn’t matter how bad it is since executives don’t care about the products they produce. As long as ppl consume it (and we are fully aware that ppl will consume ANYTHING), and they can make money off of it, it’ll happen. It’s kinda like content farm slop
there's a whole country music renaissance going on rn if anyone cares lol (it's so much fucking better; look beyond luke bryan and trace adkins n shit)
That's what I mean it's like the a.i. doesn't even realize it's making parody country songs like if someone actually did this they would just have to lean into the joke a little and it would be perfect. But the ai doesn't understand it shouldn't be funny
As a Southern woman who grew up on country music and likes SOME of the newer stuff... this is so funny to me. It sounds like 98% of the songs on country radio. 😂 All you need is dirt roads, rain, a truck (or train), and throw in a broken heart to make a #1 country song. 😂😂
i was about to say lol. my sister listens to a lot of modern country and all the lyrics sound exactly like that first song down to the voice. it’s like 85% of the reason i can’t dig it lol
There's a song that makes almost exactly that same comment about country songs, from the 1980s I think. "You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin', Darlin'" by David Allan Coe (it's after like the first verse or two).
pop radio country sucks ass. new americana is where it's at! country as a genre is being taken back by actual country people these days. nick shoulders, charley crockett, orville peck, allison russell, holy locust.
Someone made a song in the old like, big band jazz style called "I Glued my Balls to my Butthole Again" and its fucking hilarious even though I know its prob not ethically made
Obscurest definitely sounds like AI, with the slight unclarity in the voice. Also, if we're thinking of the same version, it's not jazz/big band, it's like 60s soul, think Motown
AI is most altruistically used for memes and stuff like this, I think. AI should never replace art, but I don't think everybody who wants to see Waluigi hijacking a train or hear Plankton singing Beggin' should have to do all that themselves. It's a fun toy but a dangerous tool.
3:23 i love that what would be "i got dirt on my boots, beer in my truck" got swapped to "beer in my boots, dirt on my truck" it's genius. but it does seem like someone wrote it lmao
Ok but this is what most country music actually sounds like today, it’s just a list of buzz words said seemingly at random mixed in with a love song about a white girl and then they’ll just chant like “I love my truck” like 6 times as an outro
Relevant: Rolling Stone has played around with Udio, and writes here: “Though neither company will directly confirm or deny it, there is substantial reason to believe that both Udio and [rival platform] Suno were trained on copyrighted music, without permission.” AI is automating dreams and fantacy, wow the future is boring. Its not artists that make the ai music. Its COPYCATS.
i appreciate country rap sensation drake for providing exposition about the battle in his diss track. i wouldn’t know why he made the song if not for that helpful recap
Okay but their songs about Chilis and KFC are _insane._ Like.. I'm not saying that's good. Kind of scary knowing that the advertising sector is just going to get gutted.. but.. seriously, 'Triple Dipper Love' and 'Fried and Crispy (Can't Resist Me)' go _HARD_
I like the funnier comedic like 50s sounding songs. Like "I glued my balls to my butthole again" qnd the ICONIC "trippin fat kids at the YMCA." If the lyrics AREN'T written by people were screwed in all honesty, id always assumed they were just COMPOSED using ai but written by people.
I think a thing about it is that these have more human involvement than they're acknowledging. The words are either being written entirely or at least tweaked by humans, and they're playing into the joke of the "weird broken AI writing nonsense lyrics". This stuff *is* to some extent what they're talking about with AI tools enabling human creatives.
Question how long has the ai discorcss been around? In terms of giving artist credit ect. Because I think it would be a good topic for my current events assignment about how social media brings about discussions of issues but I don’t know if it counts as “current”