Almost everybody has everything they need to make hamburgers at home. By that logic, McDonald's shouldn't exist.

What the record industry has, is a massive promotional network for the content they churn out. Without that, you'll just be rocking out to your own AI creations in your car.

The kid's father actually has pretty decent taste in music, because he sometimes has a Bluetooth speaker going while he sits outside to smoke. It's just a typical teenage rebellion thing. Probably be one of those things when he's middle aged that he'll look back on and think was actually cringey in hindsight, like Limp Bizkit was for a lot of Millennials.

So, die of skin cancer instead of Alzheimer's?

"We're so loud and incoherent
boy this oughta
bug your parents!"

Oh come on, you know the genre has two tropes it pulls heavily from:

1. I'm disadvantaged and life is hard.
2. I've beaten being disadvantaged through success in my music and life is good.

Does every once in awhile an artist come along and put out something that isn't that? Yeah, but what we're discussing here is the mainstream shit that the record industry churns out. Just like Hollywood, the industry is fearful that if they stray too far from the established formula in who they promote, they won't turn a profit.

Don't feel bad, it's also not a phenomenon exclusive to rap. Modern country has been literally remaking the same hit songs over and over, there's a rather hilarious mash-up on YouTube demonstrating that.

Pop music is just what the record industry thinks will give them the most return on their investments in promoting it. It's like any other business where you've got people sitting on big piles of cash that they're trying to make into gargantuan piles of cash. If they can sell AI slop, they'll push AI slop.

It mostly depends on if an artist is big enough to have arrangements specifically made for their live performances. A lot of pop music these days is produced using loop based tools, so there isn't any traditional notation that results from the initial studio production.

I'd have to admit, it would probably feel like a bit of a demeaning task to turn AI generated accompaniments into sheet music, but hey it's still a job for a human. For now, at least.

We're talking about a rap icon whose heyday was during that era, so those really were the subjects of most rap songs in those days. I was specifically saying that modern rap has kind of moved on from most of that - with some of it just being incomprehensible mumbling, repetitive gibberish, and dare I burn more karma by saying it, but if you head over to Reddit you know it's true: stuff that young white boys listen to because it's the genre du jour that pisses off their parents. Every generation has that.

My neighbor has a teenage kid who blasts whatever it is that passes for modern rap, anytime he's driving through the neighborhood in his van. I'm absolutely fine with being the old man yelling at a cloud over that, because it truly is awful. Way worse than the 90s era rap (which actually did produce a few bangers). I'd honestly rather listen to AI slop.

On an e-bike or going downhill, maybe. A person has to be in relatively good physical condition and an experienced cyclist to maintain 24 mph along level ground.

Hollywood already had an older trick they'd use: dubbing over someone else for the singing parts when an actor wasn't a very good vocalist.

Came here for this.

Tell me you don't like 80s pop music without telling me you don't like 80s pop music.

Modern rap is mostly incomprehensible mumbling these days. To be fair though, there's probably only so many songs you can make about bitches, hos, 40s, nightclubs, drugs, Cristal, excessively large wheels on expensive cars, gold grills, and Glocks.

The record industry has always been about marketability first, talent second. Nothing new under the sun there. It's an industry that has always been about who you know, and every once in awhile they'll let somebody new in if they're exceedingly talented (but mostly because it benefits someone already inside who will get a cut of their earnings).

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