Jokes aside, yeah bang on the money - pretty much a lot of what I've said before.
Might direct Arv and 2G here when they complain about my loose drums
You know I'm someone who cares about music, but this is what I've said even for me - streaming has kind of ruined my music consumption; back in the day I used to love buying music getting an album, sitting with the physical product, 'owning' it, and when I used to listen to albums there would be songs I would skip past, which later ended up becoming my favorite songs on the album as I started listening to them more and realising how good they were --- I don't get that now; I don't even really check albums. I'll listen to it a few times, then I'm gone.
In a way the Spotify 'song radio' has proveed good for me finding new artists and songs in styles I like, however, I very rarely end up even remembering an artist name or song. There's tonnes I've forgotten about --- recently it has gotten a little better, when I hone on specific songs or artists then start the kind of 'radio' again, or skip back and listen over simialr things, same names and songs start popping up.
But yeh, I really miss that relationship with music , holding the physical product, taking it to someone to show. Etc.
As for music being too 'easy to make', you know my thoughts, glad he dissed trap ha, but personally, I think music being 'easy to make' is largely a good thing, however, the issue as I've expressed many a time, is there is no quality control --- anyone can upload and distribute anything, this coupled with how devalued music is means less and less people have the ability to even discern what
is good music. Which leads to...
Record companies + AI ... I don't know who decides on laws regarding music tbh, but this needs to become a clear legislation, at least be revisited in recording contracts. You will have to fight for rights to your likeness, have included that any works instigated using your likeness have x% of royalties attributed to you as it would typically. That is provided that the legislation and copyright laws are drawn up to support that.
But combining thoselast two points... the new generation doesnt value music, or have the relationship to realise it, oversaturated with music, and shit music, and music that sounds the same --- do you really think they will care? Guy said his kids or someone could tell the AI made ones, however, people will just happily listen to whatever shit theyre shipped, so that really doesn't bode well with the Label AI and all the info above.
One caveat though, is that common in recording contracts is that record labels often have a bit that says about rights to your music on "Casette, CD, Vinly, MP3
and on any medium not yet invented" including territories such as the universe. So it is only natural they will try to get in on these new formats. However, this AI thing is really eerie and really does not bode well. The good thing, though, is that they would need to 'train' it, so you would need enough original material for it to even have an identity to replicate; If they just take you face value, they will only be able to create based on what has come before, no new flows or song styles etc. So there will always be that edge and space for 'coming with something new' --- just depends if people care to hear it.