Totally fake AI created band VELEVET SUNDOWN has 400,000 hits on SPOTIFY... HUH?

[Pat A Flafla]

Yuck.

 

[mydadisjr]

ANDREW FRELON is a fake name (guy won't even give his real name...hmmmm): google him if you want a rather gibberish-filled account of his so-called AI "experiment".

Doofus Frelon never really explains how a BRAND NEW rather bland band that NO ONE HAS HEARD OF gets 500,000 hits in one month.

Spotify MUST have had a hand in promotion, because Spotify put the Velvet Sundown songs on HEAVY ROTATION in their "playlists" the minute VS made its appearance.
Some unknown crappy blah band out of nowhere just appearing on Spotify would never get that kinda treatment.

Do you think your REAL LIVE indie band would automatically get put on all the Spotify playlists if you stuck your latest five songs up on Spotify? I really doubt it.

Also, Fake Frelon says this kinda crap...

"Personally, I’m interested in art hoaxes," he added. "We live in a world now where things that are fake have sometimes even more impact than things that are real."

and this garbled mess...

"I’m not running the Spotify backend stuff, so I can’t super speak to exactly how that happened," Frelon told Rolling Stone.

Super speak?

What??

 

[retroplate]

Rick Beato did a short analysis of it:

Yeah, I watched this as well....

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[Skeet6]

Steal, by thE STiFF

2 track album

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My real band has 4033 streams to date! Take that posers!!

I just gave a +1...
Mike B

 

[mydadisjr]

VELEVT SUNDOWN just passed one million "monthly listeners" on SPOTIFY...

Somebody still be making bank on this soulless digital slop!

 

[Tommy D]

Why are you promoting their music? Stop sharing it and maybe it will go away.

 

[twelvenotes]

Rick Beato’s latest is interesting and scary.

My belief is that you can “feel” the difference. All of this autotune, beat matched music doesn’t hit the same as live off the floor, multiple takes, tape splicing never mind the AI slop we’ll be fed. I know I sound like an old guy, but even the bands I love it’s the older music that finds its way into my ears. It’s the imperfections, the humanity that resonates.

You want chills, watch the five minutes of the Keith Richards documentary on Netflix where he demonstrates how he recorded Street Fightin’ Man. Pure genius.

 

[nlabodin]

Haven't listened to the song on Spotify but watched the Rick Beato video. The parts of the song I heard sounded terrible. Pretty lifeless in all departments. Guitars were bland, drums were boxy, "vocals" were weak, lyrics were pandering. Generally speaking, I don't know why anyone would actually like the song and why it would garner such attention. Part of me thinks that if we can create AI songs, why not create AI bots to click on the song and create revenue? I would imagine it is just as easy to do.

This was my biggest problem with this before I knew it was AI generated. It was just bad music IMO. My wife was playing a Spotify generated "Classic Rock" playlist in the car and this "band" kept popping up and we just kept skipping it because it was plain bad. It was only a few hours later that I started seeing these headlines pop up and it clicked.

 

[RyanLovesDrums]

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