A song is like a time capsule, as you listen you time-travel.
As artists, we use time to trap time, that’s powerful.
What we make is music but what we share is time, time inside time, a subjective observation, a recorded perception of rhythm, a sonic experience.
Music is time and time is music.
Be well 💌
R&B used to be gospel music for niggas that worship jawns like niggas worship Jesus. Now everything is just angsty break up music and songs that describe sex in the least intimate ways possible lol
AI appeals to a lot of people because it offers the feeling of creativity without requiring the creative process. It lets people jump straight to the applause, bypassing the effort, struggle, and originality that usually come first.
It's totally fine to push a product lol. Just own that. If you're a hustler/work-for-hire, why mask it with the "artist" title? be yourself💀. it's more fun. lo prometo.
Perspective is like the perfect requirement to be recognized as an artist. Because it can't be bought, taken, or duplicated. You have your own or you don't (and you can always find it).
Without that, the "art" you're making, is just a product.
Jack Antonoff on people who use AI to make music:
“Nothing more embarrassing than considering there is a way to optimize the holy process. Godless whores…it’s mainly the out of touch shouting about following this nightmare. The new artists I know are genuinely uninterested…”
It's always hilarious when they try to sell you that AI will bring innovation to creatives but the only use it has is to steal from already existing work.