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An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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That's ... kinda pathetic for the industry, though not surprising for a genre that lost it's heart ages ago.
Someone pointed out to me a while back the main draw of human made art is the effort put in and the genuine connection people make with the artist. When you actually engage with the art, it's provocative and emotional and has that connection. Slop can't do that. It's like empty calories for the soul.
But that argument falls apart for commercial endeavors
plenty of human made slop also exists and while it may look pretty (or in this case, sound pretty), the artistry is lacking. It's made to top charts, not build a connection. You lack the artist's emotions, creativity, the imperfections that make it genuine, even the backstory behind the piece, etc. All that is art.
County (and other commercial pop) has lacked that for ages. There are genuine artists out there, but marketing and promotional strategies tend to drown them out with slop. No surprise that side is getting the AI overhaul.
A lot of people will happily consume anything if they enjoy it even a bit and it doesn't take any effort to digest. Doesn't need to be good nor offer meaning or anything, if it's just easy and pleasurable enough to make passing time a little more bearable. Empty calories for the soul is a good way to put it, but to a lot of people that's still plenty enough. Engaging with art requires at least some effort. Mentally, emotionally, sometimes physically...
But that's why my analogy works; imagine if all you ever got to eat was potato chips. You'd survive, at least you a little bit, but your quality of life would be abysmal. On occasion they might not be too bad but in excess, or exclusively, you'd die young. Yes, it does take effort to consume something better, especially in a society incentivized to continue feeding you empty calories, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try getting a fresh vegetable in your system.
Oh yeah, I 100% agree with that. Just lamenting about how a lot of people are... well, dull.
Ironically that also works for the metaphor given just how many Americans have terrible fast food diets, either by choice or necessity. Lol.