Short answer: Jordan Metzner says he does not think AI music will eliminate human music but it will most likely improve it, and the big untapped opportunity is AI inside music production tools like Logic or Ableton.
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From Episode 3: Auto-Marketing for Podcasts? Let’s Build It!, starting at 20:39.
Sam Nadler [20:38]: It sounds so good. It actually leads us to kind of our next topic, which is I don't have the exact headline in front of me, but it's about a band that has you know, I wouldn't I don't know if they outed themselves or it became public that it is completely AI generated, Velvet Sundown. It's got a it's received a lot of popularity, listens. I've listened to it myself. I totally see me vibing to Velvet Sundown on a long road trip. And overall, it's really good. So what are your thoughts on kind of an AI complete AI band becoming so popular? And does this mean the end of, humans leading the creative inspiration of music? Or is it just, something people liked and there will be lots of, creative humans contributing in the future?
Jordan Metzner [21:41]: Yeah. I mean, think it's super interesting. I'm just kinda surprised it took this long for an artist to, like, break out. I know there was an AI artist. There was an artist who did, like, a Drake AI song, maybe about a year ago or so that kinda got pretty popular really quickly. And, yeah. Is the music from the Velvet Sundown, like, amazing? Maybe. Maybe not. You know? But the story is picking up speed, and so it kinda makes you wanna listen even more. So but, yeah. I think AI artists, AI actors, AI characters, just the same way, people love animated characters like Homer Simpson. Right? So, I think we'll definitely see, more of that in the future. Will, AI music eliminate human generated music? I don't think so. Will it improve, the quality of music generated by humans? Yeah. Most likely. I think, like, where we're gonna see some big opportunity, and we haven't really seen it yet, is really, like, using AI inside the music production studios. So, like, all of the DAWs, like, all of the digital workspaces, so whether that's, like, Logic or Ableton or any of the other ones, haven't incorporated AI to the point, like, Suno is. And, once you see, you're making a song and you say, oh, that sounds good. Put a drum track on it. Okay.
Jordan Metzner [23:02]: Have it add a heavy bass. Okay. You know? And you're you're making music while texting, I think, is an opportunity that, is upon us and is probably coming really soon. And that's gonna start to really improve the quality and speed in which music gets produced. And, it goes kinda back to, like, that video production stuff we talked about in episode one with Veo 3. If I wanted an orchestra to sing a song, an opera or whatever we made or even a country music song, like, it would take hours to produce that, plus the skill set, plus all the instruments, plus, recording it line by line. So, the amount of time and money saved by leveraging this art form is incredible. And so, hopefully, we'll see artists leverage it as a form or a mechanism for them to produce more greater, faster, better art, just like we've seen, like, what Photoshop did to artists, digital artists, kind of the same for digital video editing.
