The End Of Music
A concept album arguing that AI-generated music is the latest in a long series of false apocalypses for music, while simultaneously demonstrating the full stylistic spectrum of AI slop.
Summary
A 13-track concept album by St33v™, exploring the cultural panic around AI-generated music from multiple angles: historical survey, personal drama, manifesto parody, classical elegy, minimalist absurdism, and typographic destruction. The album's central argument — that "the end of music" is a recurring human refrain applied to each new technology, not a genuine diagnosis — is stated in the opening track and proven by the closing one. All songs rendered on Suno.com using lyrics and style prompts workshopped with ChatGPT; draft lyrics augmented and de-cheesified by St33v™.
Liner Notes
Artificial Intelligence is metastasizing and smothering human creativity in a tide of slop. Well, maybe, but claims of the death of music and the arts have been proven wrong before...
The End of Music is an AI Tour de Force, showcasing the stylistic spectrum of AI slop. Don't worry though, there are traces of beauty and emotion, enough to please the most hardened cynic. Along the way through this concept album, you may find arguments that instil hope for the future, even with the backlash against this new and dubious phenomenon.
All songs rendered on Suno.com using lyrics and style prompts that had been workshopped with chatGPT.
Draft lyrics were augmented and de-cheesified the old fashioned way, by bumping fat fleshy finger tips onto a filthy dusty keyboard.
Candidate tracks were rigorously winnowed and selected using harsh and exacting quality standards, except for track 10.
I hope you enjoy this album of music made by machines for humans.
Concepts and lyrics by St33v™
Post-production by St33v™
Track Listing
- The End Of Music | The End of Music — 3:49
- Eli Mercer - I Won't Let The Real World Crush My Dreams | I Won't Let The Real World Crush My Dreams — 4:49
- The Clanker Art Manifesto - A Masterpience in Every Pixel | The Clanker Art Manifesto — 3:04
- Frogger! | Frogger! — 2:08
- 432 Hz | 432 Hz — 2:21
- Ants | Ants — 3:32
- May The Forte | May The Forte — 6:36
- Do Not Adjust Your Set - Normal Service Will Resume Shortly | Do Not Adjust Your Set — 0:47
- Lullaby For The Brass Golem (Easy Listening Version) | Lullaby For The Brass Golem — 2:28
- Where Music Goes To Die | Where Music Goes To Die — 3:13
- Power Scalpel | Power Scalpel — 6:14
- The Music Has Stopped | The Music Has Stopped — 3:11
- Said Hanrahan | Said Hanrahan — 7:15
Cross-references
- St33v (artist)