AI is Making “Music” Now
Tech has gone too far, now we’ve got AI “rock bands” crushing Spotify with zero soul.
The band is called The Velvet Sundown and they have over “1 million monthly listeners“ (I’m sure their real listeners and not bots), a top‑charting single (“Dust on the Wind”), and not a single real human behind it.
No live shows, no interviews, just AI‑generated everything.
Their Spotify bio says it’s “synthetic,” musically guided by people but completely AI‑composed and voiced.
They call it an “artistic provocation.” Provocation? More like provoked me into a headache.
AI is supposed to be our assistant for things we don’t want to do.
It’s not supposed to be used to make generic, sloppy music.
There are bigger questions here: what happens to real musicians?
Oxford’s Dr. Fabian Stephany warns that passing AI off as flesh-and-blood artists undercuts trust and, serious copyright red flags are popping up since these tunes are built from gigantic data scraps.
Thankfully some companies are against it.
YouTube is already banning monetization of AI‑generated content starting as of July 15th so at least whoever’s trying to make money off of stuff like this won’t be able to.
Spotify? They’ve cleared the decks for AI music before: ghost artists, stock tracks, the whole under‑the‑hood playlist economy.
Now an AI rock band blowing past 1 million streams while listeners had no clue feels less like innovation and more like a culture‑draining scam.
If we don’t draw the line, what’s next?
AI superstar concerts, bot‑generated lyrics passing as emotional depth?
It’s ridiculous but unless we demand transparency, the AI takeover of music will go from weird experiment to standard practice. And honestly, that’s just sad.
