Apple Music to Label AI-Generated Songs

[Jeeve Stubbs]

Sounds like what people have been saying for at least hundreds of years. If you can’t find good music written after the 1990s you aren’t looking. I mean that kindly and helpfully. There is a lot of great music in all genres. If you tell us what you like, we can probably help you find some newer great music.

Maybe. But they're much harder to find these days. In the 1980s you had about 2 to 3 very good new tunes per week on average. Turning on FM radio or watching music TV was enough to discover them. Today, what these media play is so terrible, repetitive, and talentless that I just don't listen/watch them anymore.
I'd like to believe that there are still prolific pop musicians who have a great voice, play several instruments well, compose good melodies, author quality lyrics, and rival the likes of the Beatles, Bee Gees, Elton John, etc. If such geniuses do exist, man, do they have a problem of discoverability…

 

[Jeeve Stubbs]

Gee thanks. As a musician I love hearing my music is invalid because of the decade it was created in by people who never even made the effort to find or listen to it.

Did you ever think maybe the reason popular music isn't that good is because too many people stop looking for new music once they hit 30 and decide every single new song is terrible?

In this century I have listened (often unwillingly) to hundreds and hundreds of recent tunes on the radio, TV, restaurants, stores, etc. Sorry, but they mostly sucked. OK, I get your point: there is still great music out there but you have to look harder for it. Maybe. But I miss the time when you would just turn on FM or MTV, and fall in love every week or so.

 

[rb2112]

I'm finding it quite difficult to understand this attitude to music. Is it like a noise generator that sits in the background and you don't actually pay any particular attention to it? (I'm not having a go, I just engage with music very differently)

I know people that have the television on in their house all day long. The people don't really watch or actively listen to it, it's just "on". I don't get it all all! Seems like that same with playing AI background music for a mood. To each their own. 🙂

 

[rb2112]

Maybe. But they're much harder to find these days. In the 1980s you had about 2 to 3 very good new tunes per week on average. Turning on FM radio or watching music TV was enough to discover them. Today, what these media play is so terrible, repetitive, and talentless that I just don't listen/watch them anymore.
I'd like to believe that there are still prolific pop musicians who have a great voice, play several instruments well, compose good melodies, author quality lyrics, and rival the likes of the Beatles, Bee Gees, Elton John, etc. If such geniuses do exist, man, do they have a problem of discoverability…

I still find college radio supports a largely population of DJs all who spin emerging music. Also some independent local radio stations. Really depends on where you live and commute to, but some of these stations you can also stream online. I agree it's hard to hear anything new or fun on the homogenized big stations (cirrus etc).

 

[maxoakland]

In this century I have listened (often unwillingly) to hundreds and hundreds of recent tunes on the radio, TV, restaurants, stores, etc. Sorry, but they mostly sucked. OK, I get your point: there is still great music out there but you have to look harder for it. Maybe. But I miss the time when you would just turn on FM or MTV, and fall in love every week or so.

I miss that too. But if you want it back, you can tune your social media algorithm. Mine just shows me good bands all the time and activist stuff

There is an issue though: back in your day, good artists had an actual budget. We don’t these days because too many people aren’t looking past the surface