I'm Sorry...This New Artist Completely Sucks [11:09]

YouTube ^ | July 15, 2025 | Rick Beato

[SunkenCiv]

In this episode, I break down the music of Eli Mercer and explain why it has no cultural or artistic value. 

I'm Sorry...This New Artist Completely Sucks | 11:09 
Rick Beato | 5.09M subscribers | 357,946 views | July 15, 2025

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Computers/Internet; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ai; elimercer; music; rickbeato; spotify; trollarmy; velvetsundown

[Lisbon1940]

You could rhyme it with creepiest.

[Tired of Taxes]

Interesting. So, the second song started out similar to Smashing Pumpkins’ “Disarm,” but only at the very beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hxEnJbT6A

[SunkenCiv]

Disarm, dat arm... unless you’re Richard Allen.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Rick Beato, a lifelong musician and music producer, is aghast at AI-written and produced music, but he's missing the point. In 2025, AI is capable of writing terrific songs and instrumentals that are a pleasure to listen to.

AI, with some human supervision and guidance, will and should replace much of the slop that human songwriters and music producers (Rick Beato and his ilk) create these days.

And another thing, AI isn't going to reduce the demand for live bands and musicians. The point of watching a band play is to see real human singers and musicians. Otherwise, you can just play the music on a good stereo.

[Rocco DiPippo]

I write, produce and record music and have a nice recording studio. A month ago, I had some guy approach me to talk about his wife's music. Of course, he said it was great and asked me if I'd give it a listen. With very, very rare exceptions, I've found that almost all of the "musicians" I'm asked to critique suck mightily and I do not like telling someone who thinks they're going to be the next Taylor Swift, etc., that McDonalds is hiring. So I almost always say that I don't have time right now. . .

Well, a few weeks later this same guy sent me a text message asking if I'd ever heard of Suno; a "music writing program." I told him I had and I did not patronize it nor would I work with anyone who did.

Lo and behold, a week later, I got a heads up from someone that this guy's wife's "song" had been posted to YouTube. Sure enough, it was some lame-ass, AI generated Suno slop.

Ugh.

[Rocco DiPippo]

. . . and this guy's wife neither plays an instrument nor sings.

Fact: 50,000 songs are released on Apple Music and Spotify every day. Ten thousand of them are AI generated.

So, the slim chance actual musicians have to break out or build a following has been made even slimmer by those with thin or no musical talent who type prompts into programs like Suno and hit "Generate song."

It's all part of the encroaching, Brave New Globohomo World, where "sameness" is the goal and human creativity is reduced to a few clicks of a mouse or a few words blurted into a smart phone.

[equaviator]

"I'm Sorry..."

DON'T be sorry! Which reminds me of how often I'll be walking the aisles of one store or another and whenever I happen to round a corner and a young person comes within 5 feet of me, they'll say "I'm sorry". Come on, man. Stop being so damned sorry all the time. It's no big thing!

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[left that other site]

I totally appreciate Rick’s One-Man Crusade against AI in Music. I’m afraid that he’s up against an enormous juggernaut, though.

I hate the way it’s taken over You Tube, and the Visual Arts as well.

I watched this video yesterday. It seems like you and I are on the same page.

[newfreep]

Lots of hilarious comments incl...
I wish I knew this was AI before I got a lower back tattoo of Eli Mercer.

I created an AI lawyer to represent Eli, and we’re suing for defamation.

I saw Eli Mercer open for Velvet Sundown in Gotham City in 2034.

I’ve been an Eli Mercer fan for years. Glad he’s finally getting some recognition.

It’s the end of the world as we know it. Do we feel fine?

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[rlmorel]

Or...more cowbell!

[discostu]

If Warren Zevon can use brucellosis GPS is allowable. Of course Zevon was one of the greatest songwriters ever. So mileage may vary.

[Lazamataz]

The term ‘GPS’ does not belong in a song.

Correct. People may not recognize the acronym. Better to spell it out.

"I tried to contact
The Global Positioning Satellite
But I could not
And that gave me such a fright."

Okay, okay, I'll stick to writing fiction. 😊

[1Old Pro]

I hate the way it’s taken over You Tube, and the Visual Arts as well.

You Tube should allow people to use real recordings as background music on their uploaded videos. everyone is forced to use AI music to avoid copyright infringements.

[Jamestown1630]

LOL

I was sternly lectured once by a former West Point professor on mixing up words from different linguistic roots in songs and poems; I’m touchy about it.

[Drew68]

Watched this last night.

Both impressive and really depressing at how easy it was for Rick Beato to type in a few prompts and come up with an artist, name, face, and an album's worth of totally AI music.

And it's frustrating to know that companies like Spotify are doing the same thing, only plugging in these fake AI "musicians" into the playlists and then earning the money themselves that would normally be paid to actual human artists (who aren't earning these fractions of pennies as for every three minute block that an AI song is getting played, a human song isn't).

Beato and so many others have been sounding the alarms on this for a while. The record companies are getting involved in lawsuits as this totally generative AI music needs to use the almost endless catalogues of human-created music to generate the fake stuff. It really is a whole new level of intellectual and artistic property theft.

[left that other site]

That’s True.

The AI music is maddening.