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This is a mainstream break up song: https://youtu.be/ekzHIouo8Q4

This is a vocaloid break up song: https://youtu.be/9pQR4a5sisE

The first isn't bad by any means. There's a million break up songs and that's one of the best sad ones. Most are just... angry? Blaming? Empowering? They work fine. They sell records. Many have have a billion views.

But the second one, even with the clunky translation, strikes somewhere deeper. It's written by someone who had enough time ruminating on a break up. The ending hits a little harder, because break up songs are about endings.

Both are sincere, but the first feels more formulaic. I'm inclined to think the first one is the soda.

I feel Suno leans towards this group of songwriters and poets who have something to say. Sora doesn't.

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Vocaloids are hardly similar to fully AI-generated songs. Vocaloids are still human controlled.
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That doesn't sound meaningfully different from what people are already doing on Instagram and TikTok all day.
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Absolutely correct and my comment is by no means dedicated just strictly to the AI slop.
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For a lot of people music is a focus aid, not the object of contemplation.
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As opposed to the kardashians and real house wives and Chappell Roan?
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No, the whole horseshit belongs together of course. Just that the AI slop is the logical culmination of the dumbed down pop-culture of the last 15ish years or so.
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