AI Slop - Acceleration of Music Degeneracy rather a Genesis of a new Problem

AI Music Slop isn’t much fun. It sounds feasible but is soulless. The riffs stalk, the lyrics dull and melodies monotonous. It’s seemingly competently produced but with very little intentionality or risks. Like it was made by a professional musician who is fed up with music, needs to bash something out at four o’clock on a Friday so he can go home to a failing marriage. A dystopian future for music not the utopian one the ghoulish AI ceos are promising. 

So why do people listen to it then? 

It may be easy to write them off as musical philistines. Unwashed pleasants who don’t understand real art. But they have been brought up in uninspiring waters. Their musical lives are dictated by corporate slop, gate kept by large marketing budgets. The artists' personalities are cookie cutter. Narcissistic pop princess who only write about their break ups which despite their lyrics are probably their fault. Pretty boys who never needed a personality beyond being vaguely nice. Rappers whose egos are like those of demi-gods, despite their only boasts being a greater than average income and a flock of women who may possibly being trafficked (not making accusations to anyone in particular there, but I am sure you have your suspicions). Their characters are surface level, not particularly inspiring and un-likeable (if you're over the age of eighteen). 

They have no choice but to listen to it though… The alternative; independent music creators are almost impossible to get into. Not because there aren’t a lot of great independent music creators, there are plenty, but because they are drowned out by an avalanche of mediocre producers. It is like finding the proverbial needle in a proverbial haystack. The only people outside the mainstream who can stand out are those good at social media which isn’t a good selector for good artists or even always good people. AI only exacerbates this problem. It’s a new strategy to get heard. Just vide produce a million songs and hope people notice a few of them. It might be an infinite money glitch for some but a plague upon the music industry for the rest of us.  

We need a way to discover great talents without having to wade through hours of derivative snooze fests songs and mind numbily boring AI slop. We need a streaming app that brings talent to the fore. Which is why I am building: Bar Band Explorer.  Where you will be able to quickly listen to twenty second samples of songs which were carefully selected for you by our algorithm and find you new favourite artist. Who might be an actually authentic human being.