Wow! Love it. If this is AI-empowered Momus, let's have waaaay more of that. Though frankly if you didn't know, you wouldn't tell. This sounds far more like Momus than it sounds like anyone else's AI experiments. Wondering if Ballyhoo is shaping up to be the new Ocky Milk in terms of being packed with great hedonistic tunes. (Which would be no bad thing.)
Apart from the inauthenticity of AI 'compositions', which I detest, personally, I just don't understand the appeal of using this method by an established artist like yourself. It can't produce anything of the quality of your self-penned songs (because you are an individual artist in your own right), and, to my ears at least, it is actually quite naffly generic sounding, as is the case with everything that relies more on technology than talent these days. Abandon this gimmicky bandwagon immediately, sir! Before it damages your stellar reputation irreparably! This is the backlash! It has begun!
I’m not an armchair expert in the creation of these tracks, beyond what Nick tells us, but if we weren’t already aware these are inspired by AI, would we necessary even know? I feel like - and could be wrong - but AI is just the catalyst in the same way old Japanese folk 45s were for the ‘Glyptotek’ album? I don’t feel like it matters to me that this is where this begins. The creativity is still present!
I don't mind that there's controversy about this, but really, how could I NOT be excited to make a new kind of song at this moment, when these new tools are as exciting and transformative as sampling and sequencing were back in the 80s? There are already 36 "self-penned" Momus tracks out this year, but what does "self-penned" mean in pop, which is a communal artform, a folk artform updated from the old days of Trad and Anon? Since the pop scene of Korea is my current interest, and since there's a fascinating synergy between the "manufactured" K-groups currently dominating world pop culture and the early 80s black music I've often pastiched as Momus, this is the perfect moment. It's also the perfect moment in terms of the tech being glitchy and the results uncanny and eccentric. It will not always be this weird.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one! Of course there's always been a degree of appropriation in pop music - we all acknowledge our influences in our songwriting. But that doesn't rule out trying to be original and authentic in what we create, otherwise what's the point. Cynically rehashing the past is for deadheads! No doubt I could be fooled like anyone else about whether a machine or a human being 'wrote' a particular song, but I'm not sure that that's the point either. 'What a clever computer, it can imitate Byron or Bowie or Beethoven'. Much of what we are fed is so lowest common denominator, culturally, at this time - more so than at any time I can remember over the last half century. As an artist, and a defiant, reactionary one, that sends me off in the completely opposite direction, searching for something with some personality, integrity, complexity and SOUL. Call me a Luddite! I don't regard computers as the future, rather the rusty nails in the coffin of a decrepit era! I demand a better future!
Oh, believe me, I totally respect your position. Talking of "the opposite direction", you might like Naima Bock: ua-cam.com/video/zpV3ljoIyw8/v-deo.html
Bless you, Momus! Yes, she is clearly part of an anachronistic folk tradition in what she is doing (which I mean complimentarily). Towards the end of this song, her choice of instrumentation sounds not unlike your own 'back to basics' style at times. Strange and alluring.
ANOTHER GREAT POP SONG ! THANK YOU MOMUS !!!🖤💥👍👍
love the direction this album is taking 🔥🔥🔥
Totally, totally unique!
reminds me of graham kartna and jack stauber, love it tho :33
it won’t be a #real kpop album without a few jersey club & pluggnb tracks thou … get to researching papaw ✍
Wow! Love it.
If this is AI-empowered Momus, let's have waaaay more of that. Though frankly if you didn't know, you wouldn't tell. This sounds far more like Momus than it sounds like anyone else's AI experiments.
Wondering if Ballyhoo is shaping up to be the new Ocky Milk in terms of being packed with great hedonistic tunes. (Which would be no bad thing.)
Love this! 🖤
Fantastic!
MOMUS BLAST
aoty imminent ...
😍
Is good.
momazo
A great theme, unfortunately.
Apart from the inauthenticity of AI 'compositions', which I detest, personally, I just don't understand the appeal of using this method by an established artist like yourself. It can't produce anything of the quality of your self-penned songs (because you are an individual artist in your own right), and, to my ears at least, it is actually quite naffly generic sounding, as is the case with everything that relies more on technology than talent these days. Abandon this gimmicky bandwagon immediately, sir! Before it damages your stellar reputation irreparably! This is the backlash! It has begun!
I’m not an armchair expert in the creation of these tracks, beyond what Nick tells us, but if we weren’t already aware these are inspired by AI, would we necessary even know? I feel like - and could be wrong - but AI is just the catalyst in the same way old Japanese folk 45s were for the ‘Glyptotek’ album? I don’t feel like it matters to me that this is where this begins. The creativity is still present!
I don't mind that there's controversy about this, but really, how could I NOT be excited to make a new kind of song at this moment, when these new tools are as exciting and transformative as sampling and sequencing were back in the 80s? There are already 36 "self-penned" Momus tracks out this year, but what does "self-penned" mean in pop, which is a communal artform, a folk artform updated from the old days of Trad and Anon? Since the pop scene of Korea is my current interest, and since there's a fascinating synergy between the "manufactured" K-groups currently dominating world pop culture and the early 80s black music I've often pastiched as Momus, this is the perfect moment. It's also the perfect moment in terms of the tech being glitchy and the results uncanny and eccentric. It will not always be this weird.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one! Of course there's always been a degree of appropriation in pop music - we all acknowledge our influences in our songwriting. But that doesn't rule out trying to be original and authentic in what we create, otherwise what's the point. Cynically rehashing the past is for deadheads! No doubt I could be fooled like anyone else about whether a machine or a human being 'wrote' a particular song, but I'm not sure that that's the point either. 'What a clever computer, it can imitate Byron or Bowie or Beethoven'. Much of what we are fed is so lowest common denominator, culturally, at this time - more so than at any time I can remember over the last half century. As an artist, and a defiant, reactionary one, that sends me off in the completely opposite direction, searching for something with some personality, integrity, complexity and SOUL. Call me a Luddite! I don't regard computers as the future, rather the rusty nails in the coffin of a decrepit era! I demand a better future!
Oh, believe me, I totally respect your position. Talking of "the opposite direction", you might like Naima Bock: ua-cam.com/video/zpV3ljoIyw8/v-deo.html
Bless you, Momus! Yes, she is clearly part of an anachronistic folk tradition in what she is doing (which I mean complimentarily). Towards the end of this song, her choice of instrumentation sounds not unlike your own 'back to basics' style at times. Strange and alluring.