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Review Summary: Let people enjoy things. It's not that deep, bro. Artificial intelligence has become the latest boogeyman figure for the school of resentment. It's a half-baked idea we see trotted out time and time again every time ugly Americans face the slightest inconvenience. If it wasn't for those pesky tech bro billionaires making LLMs, people would understand why my raw and soulful acoustic songs are actually great. Oh, and the eggs would be cheaper, or something. So let's all make memes cheering on the deaths of innovators like Stockton Rush, guys who actually had the balls to get off Bumble, get off Tiktok, and follow their dream literally to the ends of the earth. Here's the thing about being an innovator: everyone wants to bring you down. The first guy to buy a car probably got a bunch of horse crap pelted at him as he drove down the freeway. But the unwashed masses eventually realize what's good for them, and suddenly there's no more horse turds because no one's riding around on a stupid wild animal. Newsflash, they all bought ***ing cars.
So Tyga's latest album Starface is made entirely with AI. And the so-called human lovers (who ironically have nothing but vitriol for just about anyone who can afford a swimming pool) are up in arms because their precious "sacred art" is now a mockery, a supposed sterile product. Okay? Like cynical marketing and industry plants just started last year? Look into ABBA's ties to foreign intelligence. Read the works of David McGowan and Bill Cooper. Everything has always been bad, so when the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around. And what's around is artificial intelligence.
I defy all naysayers and luddites to take a blind listening test. Play this album, and then play the last dozen or so Tyga records (he's been around longer than you think and is in his late 50's). Hear any differences? No. This is Tyga. In fact, it seems the AI model Tyga's handlers used must know Tyga more than he knows himself. Isn't that why we have innovations to begin with? People will cry all night and day about the evil algorithms, but who's got a gun to your head forcing you to watch AI video essays about the decline of McDonalds? Hell, you ate McDonald's this week. You bitched and moaned, but you're the one who dropped $15 on a Big Mac and tipped the Doordash driver $10 because you didn't wanna end up on some tip-shaming group on Facebook. If you got a problem with the future, either shut the hell up or stop participating in it. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.
If you didn't know this album was AI, you'd be trotting out the standard poptimist line, shaking your little booty to all the bops and bumps. But for some reason you think a robot can't be human. Says who? Half the people who watched Lewis and Clark were hoping they'd crash the plane. Now their grandkids are flying on the goddamn things. Tyga's the captain, hop right in, next stop is the future.
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Album Rating: 0.5
Yes, you're going to see finger-wagging and, sometimes, virtue signaling from people. I don't think this moment is that. For one, the finger-wagging, if you can call it that, is warranted, because the 'music' here sucks on its own merits anyway. This review makes no attempt to argue why the music has anything going for it because it's too busy trying to pile on the "gotchas" and likewise scold detractors of this kind of 'music' and the precedent it sets.
Yea, I got takeout the other day. I actually didn't complain about it being too expensive or bad for me while eating it. For one, McD's/BK/etc isn't that expensive, and also, everyone pulls to the drive-thru knowing full well what eating too much of it will do to your body. This isn't the hypocrisy trap you think it is.
Lastly, yes it's certainly true "the future is going to happen whether we like it or not." That reality is not a license to allow the future to be bleak. In the present, we should be doing everything we can to shore up the future when it does arrive. Is one singular AI album going to deter progress? No, of course not. And no one is saying it will. The principle is that the impact of AI, data centers, etc on communities and the people therein, is an important conversation to be had, and hand-waving the concern about that as virtue signaling/arguing that we just shut up and accept whatever happens is likewise a dangerous precedent.
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i can't take this review seriously, something tells me this is high tier trolling
if so, good job.
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"If you didn't know this album was AI, you'd be trotting out the standard poptimist line, shaking your little booty to all the bops and bumps"
To speak to this - when I first saw the headlines about Pitchfork hating this and when I gave it a spin of my own, I had no idea initially about the AI controversy. None whatsoever. But I was fully prepared to give this album a 1 or 1.5 because the songs are so trite, repetitive, and shallow. And they're all formulaic as hell.
So I push back on the notion that this is only being hated for its AI use. It's a shitty album that happens to have used AI in its creation. Had this been human made? I might have SOME silver lining with it. But it's garbage either way.
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I listened to the first song that came up and when the chorus hit it was exactly the same. That's failing songwriting 101. It was probably the first result shit out if there's no quality control. Be contrarian all you want, but this would be half-baked trite even without the AI use.
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But nice try, Tyga. You're not convincing anyone your afternoon prompting session is good.
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You... you cannot be serious. Even if we leave aside the fact that it's AI generated, the melodies are horrible and awkward, you'd find better vocal deliveries at your local karaoke night, the production is flat and pedestrian, the lyrics are embarrassing. There are simply no redeeming qualities about this utter garbage, no matter what your stances on AI use may be.
This has to be either contrarian or trolling, I refuse to believe anyone can hold this opinion earnestly.
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tell me, is the first thing you see "it's not that deep bro" tell you it's serious
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Just lol ...."I guess bro.jpeg"
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that explains it.. bro is an actual oblivion NPC with that Bethesda coding
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...is this satire?
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obvious satire, come on guys lol
"innovators like Stockton Rush" amazing
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once i saw the user i knew this was gonna be bait
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"Half the people who watched Lewis and Clark were hoping they'd crash the plane"
If this was a creative exercise in creating a pro-AI argument by prompting ChatGPT to argue the case for AI music from the point-of-view of a mid-20s tech bro who also dabbles in stand-up comedy while simultaneously lampooning the reality that AI is often factually incorrect, then kudos. Tongue firmly planted in cheek.
But it's also a realistic portrayal of AIslop defenders. The "embrace the future or shut up" line is a nice touch. Snarky, condescending, and morally bankrupt. A microcosm of our modern day existence.
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