From “1984”:
“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”
Honestly, the difference between what we have today and what we had 10-15 years ago (uninspired, repetitive and boring melodies, and lyrics written by 65+ yo Norwegian men to be sung by and marketed to teenage girls) is not that large.
Another boring dystopia:
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How many listens pushing this to the top are just curiousity of people listening to the ‘AI song’.
I just struggle to care about this as an achievement, it’s pure novelty.
The people who generate AI slop “music” also run thousands of bots, who “listen” to their slop on repeat 24/7, to bump those numbers up, its pathetic af but all they care about is money.
It’s an indicator of the new normal
It’s not
Or just botted listens
“There’s no accounting for taste.”
Shows how formulaic pop songs are.
Shows how many people lack any taste or discernment whatsoever.
The number one of anything is usually too stupid to notice.
