May 31, 2023 - PLZ Make It Ruins
Before I knew an AI performed this album:
Depression shares the gift of honesty with you as he walks along inhospitable gray suburban sprawl, an inner dialogue in beat poetry, a fluid dynamic flow from his mouth to yours with melancholy atmospheric rhythmic tracks underscoring all. How did he see my hollow so plainly? I’m crying.
After I knew an AI performed this album:
How does this AI know more about my feelings than I do? What is reflected when we listen to something built in our image to interact with us and entertain our needs? Depression is for megalomaniacs. This gift is a chit-chat with my sharpened husk. A perspective only a headache can bring. A vision only Headache can show me. How did he see my hollow so plainly? I’m crying.
Facts plus:
Vegyn produced and mixed the music. Francis Hornsby Clark wrote the lyrics. Headache performed the poetry. Headache is an AI. I think this is a great example of artists working with AI to heighten expression and discover new communicative modes. I think it is an album profound in its gut-wrenching honesty. This work floats because it is both beautiful and conceptually sound. It is also a savvy way to trend on the hottest keywords and definition of “success” for 2023. Let’s keep chasing that venture capital. Let’s get our AIs pasted on our t-shirts. Use them or lose them. Work together or become mass fodder. Lose your jobs or take the torch. This market marches on toward the beginning of the end. We’ll make noise as we walk hand in hand with the logic of our machine. ☔