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Posted on 04/16/2026 6:03:45 PM PDT by DoodleBob
AI-generated singers routinely rank among the top-streamed country music artists in the United States -- a trend that for now is limited to a genre that industry observers fear is becoming too formulaic.
Breaking Rust, Cain Walker, Aventhis, and Outlaw Gospel have more in common that cowboy hats, denim and leather. They are all completely computer-generated, from their faces to their melodies.
And they are all hitmakers.
"That's a phenomenon I didn't see coming," said Jennie Hayes Kurtz of the country music band Brother and The Hayes.
"I thought AI was going to be curing cancer or something."
Many of the AI country tunes tap into the genre's archetype of the lone cowboy: a rugged, taciturn, plain-spoken man who, above all, refuses to apologize for simply existing.
Lyrics are delivered in raspy, gravelly voices that sound as authentic as the real thing.
"It's scary as songwriters," said Kassie Jordan, who forms the singing duo Blue Honey with her husband Troy Brooks.
"We are starting to see a lot of people just putting words into these chatbots and it is writing songs for them," she said. "As a songwriter, it's kind of like, is anyone going to even think I really wrote this?"
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Once overshadowed by rap and Latin music, and hindered by the industry's shift to digital music formats, country music has nevertheless staged a comeback thanks to a generation of artists with stronger pop, not folk, sensibilities.
Following in the footsteps of country-turned-pop megastar Taylor Swift, today's headliners are more likely to sport baseball caps than wide Stetsons.
Their music breaks genre boundaries, while artists such as Beyonce and Post Malone win fans and sell albums with their crossover efforts.
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Popular country music is formulaic?
There are an infinite number of notes and three major chords over time.
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Stop doing the music, AI, country or otherwise, and cure cancer please!
Yeah, there’s nothing that truly captures a cowboy’s hurt like a corporate computer program telling you how tough it has it after it lost its job on the line, its woman left it for another chatbot, all the beer is gone, and the digital dog done up and damn died.
I swear I thought this is how country music did it for the last 30 or 50 years or so.
Freegards
I used to enjoy country music many years ago. Then it became pop and after that it started emulating rap, and when the time came that I could no longer tell what station I was listening to, I stopped listening.
They lost me long before AI.
Formulaic AI country music? Gotta be better than qnytging by Swift!
Bookmark.
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23IZbO6qhfg&list=RD23IZbO6qhfg&start_radio=1
My son produced this.
I didn’t know how to say this . But country music... Let’s just say they aren’t sending their best.
Modern country is accurately described as rap for whites.
Yeah well let me know when the AI country star gets arrested by the law for singing through its nose.
Bad rock with a fiddle. - Tom Petty
> Bad rock with a fiddle. - Tom Petty
Sadly true.
One of my friends tinkers with AI music. He’s NOT a musician, but he just writes the lyrics (which are usually funny), and has the AI produce the music, and it’s as good as anything that’s come out of Nashville recently.
Yes, Country music has become formulaic. Someone developed an application that could “pick hit songs”, and the artists have figured out what it likes and dislikes, and tailor their music to that.
Nashville put out great music in the middle of the last century. The studios often featured Floyd Cramer on the piano, the Jordanaires singing backup, and Millie Kirkham occasionally joining them with her soprano voice.
Auto-tuning wasn’t enough. Now it’s fake everything. Not interested; quite the opposite, I am decidedly against AI replacing humans in A & E.
I’ll keep gravitating toward music, television and movies of 40-80 years ago.
Love these Beato videos....
The Spotify Top Ten Got Even Worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9pcDoaBJFE
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