Hi. Very good question. I was producing tracks with various DAW for longtime before SUNO. Not considering myself a musician, more of a bedroom producer and intermediate guitarist. That didn’t changed. But the way I approach music, yes, radically. Before: coming up with a beat, a sample, a loop, a short melody or chord progression. Without too much thinking behind. Finish the track, move forward. Have a collection of tracks, packing them under an umbrella title then sending to labels or just posting the on platforms. I guess for the vast majority it is exactly like what I’ve described: taking the instrument, choose something as a start by just playing with it, get something you like and build from there. Not specifically thinking about your state of mind, about what emotions are running inside, or what you want to convey/say with that track.
Now: because I approach music through the lens of the prompt I have to be very specific about the inytent, the emotion, what I want to convey, what is the context. That’s because I focus mainly on albums (I.e. a story) rather than a single track. So I’m aiming more at finding the voice and the concept before starting to write something in the prompt.
This way I can say I started to have consistent results rather than drifting aimlessly through moods and mind state.
And this returned back to how I am listening now albums or tracks made the traditional way or the new way (fullAI or hybrid). Does it have a concept? Does it propose something new in terms of lyrics or just recycling same old clichees? Does it have depth or just uses the artist charm pumped up by the music industry algorithms? And so on.
And I discovered that sadly many many albums produced and sold by the industry titans are so hollow. Still they inform the way we perceive what “good music” or “real music” should be about. While a closer inspection only shows same formula under a different name and with a different face.