AI ABBA style song now out

Better than Little Things! 😂

These AI efforts are happening more and more, aren't they?

I said in a post here about a year ago that, give it another 5 years and listeners will be astonished by AI music - or deceived, I'd add, if it's not clearly labelled as AI. So good, in fact, that some artists might indeed pass off AI as their own work, and listeners will be none the wiser. And it's happening quicker than I thought: AI modelling of a person's speaking voice can be deceivingly accurate already; and although such modelling of someone's singing voice can be hit-and-miss at the moment, the improvements are happening rapidly, going by some of the examples I've heard.

I've no doubt that in the fairly near future there will be AI Beatles, AI ABBA, etc, composed and performed through AI. And I don't think a lot of people will be all that bothered provided they like the music. Perhaps their attitude will be that music is music is music, and no matter how it comes about.

I'm both intrigued and put off!.

At 1'45 it genuinely sounds like they're singing 'Fellatio, you blow me away' which would be very risqué for an ABBA song from any era! Especially when the next verse includes the couplet "Don't you know that I am down here on my knees? Why is it so hard to swallow?" !!

I can't be the only one to have noticed this: it's not me being filthy-minded, is it?

(Apart from anything else, I'd say it sounds more like the Brotherhood of Man, which goes to show that even AI trying to sound like ABBA still only sounds like real humans trying to sound like ABBA...)

I hadn’t noticed it but I only heard it the once. Listened to that bit and it’s unmistakeable! What exactly is it meant to be, a person’s name?

I find these things really creepy. It’s bad enough when they’re all still alive but imagine these being “released” when they’re gone?

Electronic music can sound cold due to the lack of real musicians, but at least you get human vocals. With this it’s all fake. I definitely don’t want to hear anymore of them. Real ABBA (indeed, real anything) or nothing for me.

Not listened to it as at work at the moment, but really have no interest in it. If this is the way music is going, then say goodbye to music basically. No heart or soul, no emotions, nothing. A sad state of affairs. And where does this leave songwriters, vocalists and musicians?? All about profits and nothing about Art. I could never 'feel' a song that is AI generated.

Although I'm interested in developments in AI, including music, I also think it will mostly turn out to be a bad thing. It certainly carries some creepy and disturbing aspects - in whatever field it may be applied.

But, depending on how 'realistic'' it gets, listeners might not even realise a piece of music is AI, unless it's labelled as such. And, for me, a lot of music - commercially successful human music - has been formulaic/soulless/perfunctory, anyway. For the the more immediate, entertaining kinds of pop, AI will probably be able to come up with music indistinguishable from what humans might write, like it or not.

Robotic, unvarying (human) drumming, drum machines, human voice manipulation, synthesisers with pre-programmed styles, patterns, emulations of acoustic instruments - this has been going on for decades. AI can be seen as a development of this - an unwelcome development for many, no doubt.

I definitely want to hear great human-composed and performed music with wonderful, natural, nuanced human singing (And, by the way, I sometimes wish Benny had played the acoustic grand piano - his favoured instrument, I've read - far more often and prominently on ABBA recordings than his synths.)

And of course the good old “f*****g in the moonlight” in one line of Summer Night City. There were actually two promos of the Summer Night City single on Epic as, when it was discovered, they did an earlier fade (3:34 cut to 3:10) to avoid the profanity (it only sounds like that once, and it’s near the end).