Poll: AI - Vocal Soul - Is there a place?

[Mike]

 

Recent discussions on planned 45 releases featuring AI generated vocals led to this poll..

Is there a place for AI being used to generate soul music vocal performances?

Feel free to expand on your choice below...

 

[Woodbutcher]

Unless Butch has found the long lost acetates of Stephen Hawking's legendary Motown sessions then it's a resounding no from me ... 

[Shinehead]

The human emotion of a singer is what makes it soul and that is what makes the hairs on my neck stand up and amazes me the depth a fellow human can get in to a song. However good an al record sounds it is fake and devoid of the main element a real singer. If this is the future of soul music it is reassuring that the back catalogue is vast and still new sounds to explore.

 

 

[Happy Feet]

As has been mentioned before , a certain individual came out with  " there are no more , they've all been discovered" & pursued a career of tailer mades and crap , since then approx 1975 there has been hundreds of discoveries, and as the tempo has slowed and with the acceptance of varying types of soul music , long may it stay original,.

AI is just another form of tailer made surely 

[Johndelve]

AI is here to stay, no question, and it has and will have many benefits in certain walks of life.

But in art/ music /entertainment ? A disaster.

Ask musicians, artists, writers etc. what they think of AI when it puts them out of work.... 

[Dylan]

I think the recent batch of AI vocals could be tried out with quality soul singers and there is the opportunity to judge them again

[Timbo58]

Anything that takes away authenticity in soul music itself (or even events that play it for that matter) makes it by definition inauthentic and therefore (to my mind at least) a pastiche of what true rare soul should be -it becomes an insult to the artists and those who actually know what 'the faith' actually means.

 

AI is about as far away from 'real' as it can possibly be. So let's leave its products to the venues with their glitter balls, disco lasers & local yokels jigging about with drinks, you know -the ones that social media repeatedly tells us are 'the soul scene'.

Edited 22 minutes ago by Timbo58

[Kev Cane]

10 minutes ago, Dylan said:

I think the recent batch of AI vocals could be tried out with quality soul singers and there is the opportunity to judge them again

And then we're going down the realms of "tailor made" Dylan, but hey ho, that's just a beef that I have with it, hope you're well  

Kev

[Clee93]

16 minutes ago, Johndelve said:

AI is here to stay, no question, and it has and will have many benefits in certain walks of life.

But in art/ music /entertainment ? A disaster.

Ask musicians, artists, writers etc. what they think of AI when it puts them out of work.... 

I actually don't reckon AI will ever have the capacity to challenge authentic creativity... Saw something the other day that people have already noticed when brands are using AI generated advertisement people initially think that the company can't / won't be great and is a reflection of their attitudes towards business in general because they are too cheap to pay for an actual designer.

I genuinely think it'll be seen as a novelty fad within the creative sectors. I just can't see AI being able to even begin to replicate, never mind synthesise something like Love Was So Easy by Sidney Barnes on Sids Kids. Not even due to the usual comments of lived experience etc. I just see AI being something which will benefit lots of systems within various industries that will hopefully free up a lot of monotonous day to day stuff within businesses. The less of it we see and hear on the scene, the better.