Random music news for Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Looking to attract women? Then don’t include your cat in your dating profile. Hey, it’s science! You’re welcome. Now some
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Songwriting
It’s happening: AI can now write entire songs with music, lyrics and vocals. And it’s scary good.
Next to looking for a coronavirus vaccine, artificial intelligence is the hottest thing going in science right now. Boffins in
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Random music news for Thursday, April 23, 2020
This guy was protesting against the coronavirus lockdown policies. Wow. Just…wow. I have to agree with the #maga hoard and
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 884: Big picture stuff, part 1
When it comes to music, it’s so easy to get lost in the weeds, to become distracted by all the
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Explaining a sort of songwriting called “prosody.” That’s a fancy world for “word painting” (which probably didn’t help you at all, did it?)
As I’m totally inept at writing music, I’m fascinated by those who can. Up until today, I’d never heard of
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Post-Labour Day timesuck: A site that creates custom lyrics using AI
Ugh. The day after Labour Day is always the worst. Summer’s over. Back to work. Back to school. Shorter days.
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Q: How many songwriters does it take to write a hit? A: A lot.
If you take a scroll through the Wikipedia pages for any album released by today’s top pop and hip-hop artists,
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Geeks and Beats podcast, episode 220: Pop Song Shrinkage
Once upon a time, the belief was that pop songs should be short, catchy, inoffensive and lighthearted. That time has
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Jack White wins a songwriting credit as the result of an unfortunate sonic coincidence
Last May, I was in a London hotel room watching the finals of the Eurovision song contest. When Netta Barziai
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A good question: Is Spotify making songs shorter?
I had a conversation the other day with studio owner in which he lamented the fact that technology is going
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In order to have a streaming hit in the US, you apparently need 9.1 songwriters
Anyone who’s ever looked at the songwriting credits of a typical contemporary pop song knows that we’ve come a long
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