In an Age of AI, Your Voice Matters More Than Ever
The music industry spent years teaching artists to find their voice. Now we’re entering an era where the harder challenge is keeping it. AI can imitate styles. It can imitate structures. It can imitate emotions. What it struggles to imitate is lived experience. That’s why so much generated writing feels familiar. It borrows patterns without […]
What an AI-Generated Lyric Taught Me About Creativity
A while ago, I decided to run a simple experiment. I generated a lyric using AI. Then I put it aside. A few days later, I read it again as if someone else had written it. My first reaction surprised me. It wasn’t terrible. It wasn’t brilliant either. It was something far more dangerous. It […]
Why Emotion Matters More Than Technology in Songwriting
A lot of musicians are fighting the wrong battle. They keep asking: “Should artists use AI?” I think that’s the least interesting question in the entire debate. The better question is: “Can listeners tell when nobody cared?” Because they usually can. I’ve heard fully human-written songs that felt lifeless. I’ve heard AI-assisted drafts that contained […]