[SunkenCiv]

Eli Mercer - West Texas Dreams (Official Lyric Video) | 3:29
Rick Beato 2 | 929K subscribers | 4,425 views | July 15, 2025

[simpson96]

“New artist”, and he’s being severely panned.

I’m gonna guess he makes use of computers or possibly AI to make his music.

[Captainpaintball]

I can’t wait to hear this tomorrow at work. Music after I graduated from high school RAPIDLY degenerated to the globohomo slop pushed by gonifs that it is now.

[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

[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.

[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?

[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.