Zach WeinersmithNow and then there's a headline about an AI musician going huge on some platform. For me the most fascinating thing is that when this happens, and I look up their album or singles, their songs are almost identical. Not like when you say "all of ACDC's songs are the same." Like, they're just tons of tiny variations. Check e.g. the singles by the AI named Eddie Dalton.
Or there was another popular one called Breaking Rust, I believe, who was a sort of modern hardcore country singer. Nearly every song began with him humming, in the same cadence, followed by the same bluesy percussion. And all were some variation on the theme of being a tough guy who doesn't care about other people's opinions. Like, dozens of these songs.
And with this sort of thing I always wonder whether it's that they're (a) gaming the system, or (b) discovered something humans actually wanted all along, in some sense, but which artists would've never produced.
I mean maybe we really just want Oasis to play 83 slight variations on Wonderwall, but they wouldn't.
MrAptronym@ZachWeinersmith I believe with some of these, they have multiple same-y songs that are doing numbers. I am sure those songs' listeners overlap so it seems like both a and b are likely to some extent.
I have a friend who simply has spotify play country music when he is in the car. I have never seen him manually select or skip a song. I have been on four hour car rides where no more than 10 songs play in an endless shuffle. He is probably an ideal audience for this.
Jonathan Hendry"I have been on four hour car rides where no more than 10 songs play in an endless shuffle."
That's just any FM country station.