AI-generated music floods streaming platforms in Latin America, drowning out human artists like Bad Bunny, leading to plummeting royalties and struggles for musicians to stand out amid the AI song deluge impacting the region's music industry.
The Wurzels, a folk band from Somerset, embraced AI technology to analyze their song catalog and gain lyrical inspiration, resulting in their new song 'Wurzel Me Up' that they playfully acknowledge plagiarizes their own work, raising questions about AI's role in creative processes.
The iconic electronic duo Daft Punk meticulously crafts their signature robotic vocals using cutting-edge vocal processors like vocoders, talk boxes, and harmonizers from brands like Roland, DigiTech, Sennheiser, and Ensoniq across their influential discography.
A surprising analysis reveals that while popular music has grown more repetitive with simpler chord progressions over time, the most common chords across genres remain basic major triads like G and C, defying assumptions about increasing complexity.
Iconic musical sounds transcend generations through sampling, remixing, and interpolation, creating intricate new songs with complex musical histories spanning genres and cultures.
The Beatles' arrival in the US in 1964 marked a seismic shift in popular music, with many existing artists failing to adapt to the new sound, though the long-term impact on their careers remains debated.