Music Appreciation

of a scapegoat/explainer in the form of an anonymous and previously never mentioned "spokesperson for the band."

First, the thread I posted in GD this morning

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220452288

after discovering there were still more than 20 Velvet Sundown tracks on the Vietnam War Music playlist, a very popular playlist. Those tracks were probably at least 10% of the list - none in the first 20 or so tracks, just real classic rock, but then a VS track inserted after every several songs by real artists, all the way down the list. Assuming Spotify had those tracks created for inserting in popular playlists, they saved about 10% of the royalties they would have otherwise paid.

Then this afternoon there was a Rolling Stone article on that anonymous spokesperson for the band suddenly confessing that yes, it was AI music, and a hoax and trolling, but he had no idea how the AI slop got on those playlists.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143489790

I don't for a second believe this was anything but Spotify trying to save face after their fraud was caught and getting a lot of media attention for the fake music being on those playlists.

And as of tonight, the VS tracks are still on the Vietnam War Music list, the first one the 24th on the list, sandwiched between Sweet Home Alabama and Stairway To Heaven.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/62wW67yRcDrZunRQlgzsqU

Because it's more money for Spotify. And they'll probably keep adding more and more AI slop.