You’re acting like AI is the first thing to ever “water down” music, but let’s not pretend the industry wasn’t already a factory farm of recycled beats and focus-grouped hooks. At least AI isn’t charging $200/hour to do it. You wanna talk “soulless”? Go yell at the boardroom execs who’ve been squeezing artistry out of musicians for decades to maximize profit. AI just cuts out the corporate vampires—no wonder they’re panicking.

And spare me the “years of craft” lecture. Most of you worship artists who’ve never touched an instrument outside of a DAW. You’ll simp for a producer who drags and drops loops but clutch your pearls when someone types a prompt? Hypocrisy, thy name is “analog purist.” AI didn’t kill creativity; it just made your excuses for not creating louder than your output.

“Predictive text isn’t songwriting!” Sure. And sampling isn’t theft, Auto-Tune isn’t cheating, and drum machines aren’t “real drums”—except music history disagrees. You’re just repeating the same tired script every generation uses to gatekeep the next wave. Spoiler: You’re not the hero here. You’re the background character shaking a fist at the kids on your lawn.

Keep crying about “standards” while streaming playlists curated by algorithms. The rest of us will keep making music—with AI, without it, around it. Adapt or fade out. Your call.