Update, Monday, June 30: Unfortunate, the global transmission music service contacted us to say that Velvet Sundown albums has marked as content generated by AI together with the message: “Some clues on this album may have been created using artificial intelligence.”
This contrasts with Spotify and Apple Music, which have not marked the content as generated by AI. Deezer uses a AI detection filter in all IT albums, “with the ability to detect music generated by 100% of the most prolific generative models, such as Suno and UDIO, with the possibility of adding detection capabilities for virtually any other similar tool as long as there is access to relevant data examples.”
Meanwhile, Velvet Sundown’s account has responded to this article with the denial that the band uses the AI, saying: “absolutely crazy that the so -called” journalists “continue to press the lazy theory and without foundation that the velvet sunset is” generated by “with zero evidence.”
I have communicated with an interview with the band, and we will update you when we have more information.
The original story continues: Dust in the wind, Drift beyond the flame, and End with pain They are all the songs of the new Hot the Velvet Slown band, which are exploding in Spotify with more than 470,000 monthly listeners. There is only one problem. It does not seem that the band really exists, and music seems to have been created by AI.
While the band appears as an artist verified in Spotify, the biography says an incredible amount of indescribable things about the band, such as “there is something quite fascinating about the velvet sunset. Not only do you listen to them, you move away.”
The biography lists the band members as the singer and player of Mellotron Gabe Farrow, the guitarist Lennie West, Milo Raines, who “creates the sounds of textured synthesizer of the band”, and the percussionist “of free spirit” orion “river” of the sea. There is no amount of cavation that I (or the musical press) has been able to chase me that any of these people are.
The music itself sounds like a kind of mixture of several soft rock bands, influenced by the country, such as The Eagles, JJ Cale and the Allman Brothers. I can also detect an element of another Texas band, Khruangbin, in its sound.
Dust and silence
The Velvet Sundown already has an album outside Dust and silencethat you can listen right now, and another Papel Sun RebellionIt will be released in 13 days on July 14, but the signs of AI are in everything related to them.
For example, both album covers seem two versions of the same design generated by AI seem. Both are scenes of surrealism of a floating eye and a ladder in a desert landscape with mountains in the background. It seems what happens when AI generates two or more versions of an image for you to choose between.
Then take a look at the band’s photos: they seem to have been created by Chatgpt for me. If you look at the band’s Instagram account, you will see how it obviously looks like photos generated by AI of the band.
With powerful tools for the creation of music from AI like Suno available online, it is very possible that the particular rock combination of Velvet Slown in which it specializes in Velvet Slown. Another raffle for me is that the singer’s voice sounds slightly different on every track that the band sounds, and music has a generic quality without a soul, even if it is a pleasant and harmless listening. There is nothing cohesive between the clues that makes me think they are interpreted by the same people.
Difficult times
As we reported in February, since 2024, Spotify has demonized songs that do not get 1,000 transmissions a year, according to some estimates, 86% of music on the platform, which makes it even more difficult for musicians to make a living.
At a time when large transmission services are reaping vast profits and artists who are not in the main percentage of serpentines are fighting, the fact that an AI band is grabbing the listeners of real music generated by humans, without being labeled as AI, is demonstrating to be divisive.
Many people are understandably unhappy that what seems to be a band generated by AI is to receive plays and be supported by Spotify.
“I only looked for them, and the description in Spotify does not mention that they are AI. This honestly makes me inclined to cancel my spotify subscription,” said Reddit’s user Blyzo.
“Yes, that is what people are today; all fraud, and all the followers of the false. Big-Rabbit9119
However, Reddit user Any other He said: “NGL the songs are fire.”
We communicated with Spotify to comment on how this band had achieved the verified state and if I thought that the velvet sunset was a real band, despite all the obvious evidence, but they have not responded. We will update this article if we receive an answer.
One thing that occurred to me was that if it is a real band, then this could be a very intelligent marketing campaign. Generating controversy apparently a false AI band would be an excellent way to be noticed.
However, if velvet sunset is a band, one thing is safe: we are unlikely to see them play live.
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