Thanks TAE!
I kinda hate that the AI, even just used as a tool, has this stigma to it. Almost as if my song isn't "real" or something to some folks.
No one gives shade to the sculptor for not giving credit to his chisel and hammer, no one blames the carpenter for not giving credit to the drill and saw... why does using AI to help complete the "crafting" of a song make any difference?
Change is hard for many...The youth will be the ruin of society.
People hated when digital replaced tape...there are still people who believe a vinyl record sounds better.
Ai is leaps and bounds "different", more powerful and game changing. Not just for songwriting and music production. Everything we know and touch is being affected by it and it is not going away.
I have a FB friend who suddenly is posting all these deep profound thoughts and responses. Very cool I didn't know he was so articulate and intelligent. Then I grabbed one of his post and asked Gemini if it was AI and it deemed it was definitely an AI / human collaboration.
I really liked the post and the deep profound thought behind it and the way it flowed and all. But that he posted it like it was all his work and his words...well in my thinking that's kind of cheesy.
All those songs we grew up with in the 60's , 70's that I thought were all just done by the artist putting them out...other than covers. But once I got into recording and all the information and background of how songs came to be I was chagrined again. So many songs written by writers, so many songs recorded with session musicians and such.
Not cheesy but definitely not what I thought / believed of how they came about.
Things like Suno are an awesome opportunity for us common folk to get to see what it might be like to be signed to a record deal and sent off to LA, New York or Nashville to work with songwriters and session musician to make an album...except way faster than the old fashioned way....That's the kool aid I'm drinking and I'm planning on getting totally stoned on it.
Like you I will probably re-record some of the more important songs....but I may just go a head and let some of the 100's of songs that I have written over the last 50 years that have been sitting on a shelf in the back of my mind go out into the world 100% suno...least there out there.. good , bad or indifferent better than never getting out of my head and a heck of lot easier and better than I could have got them out there pre AI.... I'll take a ritz cracker with that cheese wiz please!