I think it is. I enjoy writing and don’t want to learn how to play an instrument. I do but it’s a lot of work. Anyway, what I enjoy is writing lyrics. Using an app like suno, I spent $50 during Black Friday, and now I can write 500 songs a month, for a year.

I’m learning quickly how to write catchy hooks, how to compress ideas that I could write pages on into 8 lines, I’m learning how to rework complex lines into singable verses.

Suno is like a digital camera for music. I can punch a few lines in and see if the song is working immediately. I can try changing genres, styles, or even instruments with a new prompt. It’s like having a personal ai music producer working for me all day and night.

If I actually wanted to turn these songs into music I could just download the raw files, delete the vocals, add my own, add new music, re-arrange the tracks, whatever I want.

Ai can replace human effort but it’s not really that good at writing lyrics or music and that’s because it doesn’t have life experience to draw on, it can’t experience raw emotion, it can only imitate it. It isn’t inspired by it. Using ai to empower yourself rather than replace yourself is the way to go. I can write lyrics, I cannot play an instrument, having the AI do that part for me while I focus on my strength is not cheating. It’s enabling me to do something I’ve never been able to do.

When it comes to creating music, it might make music that sounds flat to a musician, but it is not something the average listener will notice, especially if the lyrics and human vocals are doing their job.

More interestingly though it’s teaching me about music and making me curious about playing instruments. I’m learning about song composition by creating songs.

Some of the songs I think are actually pretty good. Real musicians will hate it but to me – someone who isn’t a musician, I love it.

I use ai image generation, I would never consider it a photograph, but if I used ai tools to edit my own photograph then I would still consider the photograph to be a photograph and that’s how I feel about ai music. It’s not generating everything it’s taking my words and fitting it to music.

Some of the tracks sound pretty generic or stereotypical of the genre specified but if you get creative with the prompt you can really get unique songs out of it.

I think resisting AI is like fighting gravity. It’s better to learn how to use it to do what you want the right way rather than avoiding it all together.