AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk'

San Francisco Chronicle via Yahoo ^ | 11/10/25 | Aidin Vaziri

[UnwashedPeasant]

Country music is so bad and artificial these days, AI should replace it soon.

[dfwgator]

Garth Brooks killed country music.

[Revel]

Modern country music is so bad that even AI can do it.

[LambSlave]

lol, truly one of the very best!

[Fiji Hill]

That song doesn't hold a candle to these tunes, which are some of my favorites.

• Stalin Kicked the Bucket--Ray Anderson

• Alone with You--Faron Young

• Hot Rod Race--Ramblin' Jimmy Dolan

• Rainbow at Midnight--Eddie Dean & His Boys

• Every Time I See the Sun Go Down--Melvin Endsley

[Fiji Hill]

Garth Brooks killed country music.

Or maybe the Dixie Chicks

[decal]

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

Igor Stravinsky

[Allegra]

LOL - I love that. I haven’t seen “Team America” in a while. The songs in that are hilarious

[SaveFerris]

Wow 😮

[VideoDoctor]

Ever listen to Merle Haggard, Randy Travis, George Jones, Hank Williams or Hank Jr.?

I'd have to AGREE with you. Each of the artists you mentioned had their OWN INIMITABLE STYLE... NO Style in the "AI" cut... just another artificially generated "acceptable" voice, accompanied by so called "Country" music... it's still lacking the "real life" experience of "LIVING" a "real Life".. which is ALIEN to "AI."

[dadfly]

post of the day!

[gibsonguy]

Garth, Merle and Bruce - the 3 stooges

[Tired of Taxes]

Not gonna lie... The song sounds good. Pretty scary.

[spaced]

The voice has the soft undertone (burr?) I hear in most black singers’ voices. It doesn’t work when combined with the cover. Others mentioned the lack of breaths. It doesn’t compare with Johnny Cash’s “Ghost Riders.”

[cgbg]

My wife is a country music fan. (I am not.)

I am giving her a “blind trial” right now.

I gave her no information except that the song was “new” and asked her to rate it.

Her verdict....

“I like it a lot.”

Ouch.

[DUMBGRUNT]

“Naked Came the Stranger”, A bestseller with a fun backstorie, predates The Bruggles by ten years.

“Naked Came the Stranger” is a 1969 erotic novel that was written as a literary hoax by 24 journalists, led by Mike McGrady, under the pseudonym Penelope Ashe. The book became a bestseller and cult classic, not for its literary merit, but as a commentary on the perceived vulgarity of popular culture, with the hoax being revealed after its success.

...Mike McGrady was convinced that popular American literary culture had become so base—with the best-seller lists dominated by the likes of Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann—that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. To test his theory, in 1966 McGrady recruited a team of Newsday colleagues (according to Andreas Schroder, nineteen men and five women) to collaborate on a sexually explicit novel with no literary or social value whatsoever. McGrady co-edited the project with Harvey Aronson. Among the other collaborators were well-known writers including 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Goltz, 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert W. Greene, and journalist Marilyn Berger.

...The revelation of the true origins of the book prompted more sales with the book selling approximately 90,000 copies by October 13, 1969.[12] By the end of the year, the book had spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger

[Tired of Taxes]

Oh, no... This means AI is getting better at creating music.

[dfwgator]

Think of all the new “Beatles” songs that will now come out.

[itsahoot]

"Country" music... it's still lacking the "real life" experience of "LIVING" a "real Life"..

Randy Travis has recently dabbled with AI to produce new music with his voice and arrangement. May be psychological but I think I can tell the difference.

I wonder how the Player Piano affected music since they could play more notes than a single human could? I see people on YouTube make music that blow away the accepted masters.

Music after all is just harmonic tones produced by myriads of instruments or objects in an order that is pleasant to the listener.

We may actually now hear a base singer that can stay on key.😇

Listen to this beatbox rendition.

[Paul R.]

I am not that much impressed by technical proficiency beyond human excellence, and often, even top human proficiency in playing or hitting notes is not required to make a great song. Sure, a great vocalist or player can enhance a song, but, just as often they go off into the weeds by oversinging or overplaying, and thereby screwing up the emotion or intent of the music, which is paramount to get right.

How many times do we see very talented singers screw up our national anthem? Usually, when you get right down to it...

In order to make what I would consider a great song, the AI needs to know not only my preferences, but why I have them, which gets into both objective and subjective (emotional) analysis of my entire life, some of which even I have difficulty putting into words. And then of course, because my experiences differ from others' experiences, my reaction to the song may be pretty unique.

Finally, for me, most, perhaps not all, good music expresses something in a coherent way. To me, that goes considerably beyond "harmonic tones produced by myriads(? What about solos?) of instruments or objects in an order that is pleasant to the listener."

AI will probably eventually get it "right", but this jumbled mess, "Walk My Walk" is a long way away.

I'll leave you with a song. The lyrics are fantastic but it's not well known, the playing is very good but not technically stunning, the vocalist is quite good, but not "one of the greats". And yet... Look at the reaction of the Asian girl in the audience, at 4:16. THAT is a musical home run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6wzHIlXDfo&list=RDQ6wzHIlXDfo&start_radio=1 (BTW, the better vid of this performance seems to have been removed from YT. I don't know why... Too bad, it had a lot more views & comments. Also ignore the replay - I guess they did retakes for the DVD?)