AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’

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• Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Country music is so low talent and meaningless this is to be expected I guess

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  • Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Any time I hear people say county music is bad, I’m reminded about Bo Burnham’s pandering bit. There is good country music out there, you unfortunately just gotta wade through the slop to find it.

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  • Hominine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Such a foolish take. I’m no fan of country music writ large, but there are plenty of good tunes out there in just about every genre.

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  • puppinstuff@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    C’mon, be fair. Country writers are toiling in their Victorian libraries to come up with such literary marvels as rhyming “suds” and “buds.”

    There are only so many words in the English language to describe one’s ideal pickup truck going down a long dirt road.

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• MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think it’s worth clarifying that it’s #1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales. That’s a specific category.

  According to tasteofcountry.com/breaking-rust-explained-ai-cou… in order to reach number one would only take ~3,000 purchases.

  That’s a shockingly low number, so if anyone can confirm that or has better numbers, I’d love to know.

  But last time I brought a digital song, they cost $1. So for a couple thousand dollars any song could be number one in this category.

  If I were an AI company swimming in money, that’s a drop in the bucket for some free publicity.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Billboard chart in question is behind a paywall.

    Someone on a Reddit discussion on the same song pointed out that it could be bypassed with:

    open.bolha.tools and plugging in the Billboard URL www.billboard.com/…/country-digital-song-sales/

    That being said, while I can see the chart, I don’t see any numbers, so I’m assuming that they must be coming from somewhere else, though I don’t have any reason to doubt that; it sounds like tasteofcountry.com is reputable.

    That article does point out that there are a substantial number of Spotify users listening to the song, though if I remember, there was some past discussion about how various people had tried trying to game Spotify’s recommendation system to try to get more people listening to their songs, so maybe someone could just be leveraging that hard?

    forbes.com/…/spotify-hit-with-class-action-lawsui…

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    • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The little info (i) box on Billboards website actually cites their data, “The week’s most popular downloaded songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Luminate.” Which I assume refers to luminatedata.com

      Sadly their data (the numbers specifically) aren’t publicly available.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Basic music for basic people.

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• Prox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Here’s the track for the curious.

  It’s pretty basic with lyrics that are pretty pandering. Not exactly a good song, but here we are.

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Country music lovers should feel stupid by letting this become a hit. I mean is AI going play the Grand Ole Opry?

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      is AI going play the Grand Ole Opry?

      Virtual artists playing human-composed and -recorded music predate present music from generative AI, and they’ve done live performances.

      I imagine at some point, probably someone will probably pair virtual bands with AI-generated music, and do live performances, if they haven’t already.

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  • khepri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “I could sign in Mandarin, you still know I’m panderin’” www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is exactly it.

      The lyrics are basically just the “I’m a piece of shit and won’t change” genre, and apparently that resonates with a lot of people somehow.

      The only time I’ve had an enemy in my life I was 6 years old, I don’t get these songs man.

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    • sausager@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That fucking scarecrow again

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  • rozodru@pie.andmc.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sounds like one of those free use songs that youtube provides when you upload a video so you don’t get copy striked. people actually LIKE this drivel? wow.

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure the lofi music streams on YouTube are majority ai-generated. But I just put it on for background music, I don’t actually listen to it.

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Obligatory fuck Spotify!

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not really familiar with Spotify, but at leadt for me — I don’t have a Spotify account — it only plays the first bit.

    I think that this is the same song, but on YouTube Music.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx3OirkhX0g

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well at least he’s memory safe

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  • RalfWausE@blackneon.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He is breaking Rust, so i would not be that sure…

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So just gross on all counts then.

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• SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here before this becomes the backing track for a million conservative TikToks.

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  more proof that country music peaked in the 90s

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  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    9/11 ruined country music.

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• khepri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s the same guy who’s behind www.youtube.com/@defbeatsai which is just…the best

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• popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We’re so cooked.

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• HailSeitan@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But it’s not copyrighted if it’s AI-generated, right? Or are there human co-writers and/or performers?

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  • RalfWausE@blackneon.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Perhaps, if anything, i think the prompts for creating the song MAY be copyrightable.

    I mean, the song is not BAD, but somewhat… generic, “beige” i would call it. Something that can play in the background in a shopping centre.

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