The No. 1 Song On U.S. iTunes—And Several Other Countries—Is AI Generated

Another boring dystopia:

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.

“There’s no accounting for taste.”

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.

The number one of anything is usually too stupid to notice.

Shows how formulaic pop songs are.