If I may coin a term, the Great Slopwave has started to wash over us. AI-generated images, music, and videos are sloshing their way across the internet. They are soulless, creepy, and devoid of any cultural value. While I’m not entirely anti-AI—I think the term describes many different types of programs, some of which automate away truly painful tasks—I share design consultant Matt Corrall’s view that a lot of this technology threatens to kill art itself.
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He has some good stuff, but I can't forget the song he put out after Kirk was merked and how very "can't we all get along!" It was. I don't remember him having that energy for the United Health CEO. That dude had kids too, which is something he was sad about after Kirk got it.
now ceo’s come and go
and one jus went
the ingredients ya got
bake the cake ya get
no one should be killed
no blood should be spilled
Charlie shouldn't have died
well you can't hate the gun and love the gun that shot yer rival
you can't be kind and wish pain upon a child
Just a year a part! Kirk was just a wittle guy speaking his mind and the United Health guy was just some CEO in the crowd. Kirk definitely didn't represent the same kind of structural violence the CEO embodied. He definitely didn't commit his own brand of disassociated terror.
But Jessy Wells is a well meaning lib. Was he attempting to not alienate the chuds who think he's singing to them? Probably. This is what a lack of structural analysis gets you
Antidote? He doesnt make things better he just sings about them.