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Comment Re:It's rap, so ... (Score 1) 68

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.

Comment Re:I bet he does it for 2 reasons (Score 1) 68

In rock/metal/classical/country/even some of the subgenres of pop, it's a completely different story.

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.

Comment Re:It's rap, so ... (Score 1) 68

you really can stop acting like it's 1993

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.

Comment Re:I bet he does it for 2 reasons (Score 1) 68

More like he’s lazy and his talent was being at the right place at the right time

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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