"I don’t make music to chase a trend, or try to get viral on TikTok. I just make music that I love. It takes a lot of other variants, but I still believe that song is king."
In today’s world, there are so many ways to get song suggestions from listeners — text, email, mobile app, website, social media, and probably five more I’m not thinking of — that it’s hardly difficult.
Outside of the fear of being replaced, what I hear most about AI from fans is a fear of being misled — and a desire for real human connections with people they can trust, not digital hangouts with randoms who might be bots.
Scott Shannon always said, “The greatest radio stations are created on a typewriter.” Sadly, that’s an area where many stations miss the mark these days.