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Le Grind

[Variety @Variety]

Todd Rundgren says Taylor Swift is “the apotheosis of mediocrity” and that she “ruined music":

“To me, Taylor Swift is the apotheosis of mediocrity. It’s the era of the female artists...There’s an argument to be made that she ruined music. It’s an understandable phenomenon."

https://t.co/iv5UJTgBso

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

John McAfee: "The mainstream media has been using a technology called neuro-linguistic programming for more than fifteen years. And that neuro-linguistic programming makes you think and believe things which are not true."

[Aleksander Ætelmann @ArchitectOracle]

And then I went from threatening to arrest Netanyahu to combating antisemitism

[X @nouveaudancer]

George Michael on the best concert he’s ever seen:

Q: What's the best concert you've seen?
GM: “Prince on his Lovesexy tour in the
'80s. He's brilliant live. U2 on their Zooropa tour come a close second.”

LOVESEXY SUPREMACY

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

The con is complete. Fuck me. What can you do but laugh

[X @nouveaudancer]

@iamslickrick01 Drake don’t even have an album better than Take Care, meanwhile The Weeknd gave up half his album for him.

[X @nouveaudancer]

@reggied1989 Top 5 Prince record ever

[X @nouveaudancer]

George Michael on the best concert he’s ever seen:

Q: What's the best concert you've seen?
GM: “Prince on his Lovesexy tour in the
'80s. He's brilliant live. U2 on their Zooropa tour come a close second.”

LOVESEXY SUPREMACY

[A.⚢ 2.0 s worded fb @yogslesbian]

George acknowledging Adam in January 2010. ❤️ Just months after Adam debuted ❤️

[X @nouveaudancer]

@GRReynolds3 Pancit! 😩😩😩 our neighbor made us some as a going away gift as we moved and I ate it in like a minute lmfao

Soy sauce added and I’m inhaling

[X @nouveaudancer]

@iamaudrey75 idgaf what others do, kinks are kinks if both adults approve. Grow some skin you child

[X @nouveaudancer]

Red ColorSound Wah >>>>

[ᴅᴜᴅᴇʀ sᴀʟᴏ @BedBeatsSalo]

@GRReynolds3 Nothing beats his custom Dunlop Wah.

[۟ @aphrotidy]

white european on twitter: "on god chi yall americans is annoying asf fr 😭😭"

[Rick @iamslickrick01]

Plot twist. Most of the music I enjoy regularly was made before the year 2000 😂

[X @nouveaudancer]

Do not make me get disrespectful today

[Tony Karusso @TonyKarusso]

@Mrc0by @NeonSzn @miss_lady_diva See, why ole girl who posted this just didn’t say that?? Smh

[X @nouveaudancer]

71 & 43

[Chase @iChvse]

What channel was BET & MTV for y’all back in the day? It was 34 & 35 for me.

[X @nouveaudancer]

@GRReynolds3 Never been more proud to stop changing beliefs before 😭🤣

[Rick @iamslickrick01]

This is NUTS

[X @nouveaudancer]

My favorite cut off SITKOL

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Stevie Wonder “Contusion” on German TV in 1974… 2+ years before it appeared on the album that turned 50 today

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Stevie Wonder “Contusion” on German TV in 1974… 2+ years before it appeared on the album that turned 50 today

[Jamila 🔔 @_iamjamila]

I hate that Jasmine Guy even saw you lame ass mfs talking about her. Like that is really pissing me off.

[X @nouveaudancer]

You’re a fucking loser

[nicksaraev @nicksaraev]

The general public hates AI music.

Here are other things the general public hated over the years.

1920s: microphones.

The idea that you could project your voice was lambasted by critics for being "manipulative" when they were first released. Today, microphones are pretty much a requirement.

1980s: synthesizers.

Called "fake music" by millions. Detested by so many they were outright banned by the British Musician's union. Today, they're used in virtually every modern production.

1980s: sampling.

Considered "not real creativity", since you were just playing someone else's music. Today, they're one of the most commonly used (and enjoyed) musical techniques in hip hop.

More recently, auto-tune. Vocoders. Equalizers. Randomized MIDI arpeggiation, like Flume. Etc etc.

Many of these are instrumental to music today (pun intended). Yet people hated them when they were first invented.

To be clear... sound is what happens when you compress air waves.

Music merely takes that one step further with rhythm.

If you tell others that *their* compressed air waves suck, since they were produced by a slightly different machine than yours, you are retarded and should be shamed for it.

AI is not coming. It is here. When a critical threshold of people realize this, it will become the dominant method by which almost all music - and really media in general - is produced.

But that doesn't preclude artists from existing! It merely changes the technology they will use to create it, by making it easier.

In a way, it allows all of us to become our own personal artists; to extend our ability, and share the vision in our hearts and minds more freely than through instruments that previously might have taken decades to learn. I say this as someone who has played piano for over 14 years and identify deeply with it; AI is far better than I am.

This is not a destruction of the old ways. If anything, it is akin to pouring gasoline on the already raging fire of our taste, our culture, and our desires.

Humans love art! We thrive in it! And what art is more powerful than taking the collective gestalt of human knowledge - of human will, perhaps - and concentrating it all into one point, one intelligence, who can help us create something *more* than we could before?

The public sees AI as anti-human and destructive to the spirit of music. But I consider it uber-human; it has the will make music flourish. It will align with our inbuilt desire to create, share, and grow through technology.

Many incredible artists the world would have never seen will now, with AI, be able to create things that spark joy in the hearts and minds of millions.

All of us will be artists, in our own ways. Lowering the bar for music production will let us share emotions more easily; propagate cultural memes (see recent Mace Windu music); and ultimately become a more responsive collective society.

I don't see that as a bad thing, and you shouldn't either!