Open Minded Dude
27th October 2025, 15:18
I wasn't sure if to post it here in the "Art & Music" section or rather in the "AI & Robotics" part of the forum. Since it is still some humans 'behind' it (pushing knobs and adding promts) with their musical intelligence (I hope) I decided on the first. (Mods, if you think it belongs to the other please move it there).
It's happening right now before our eyes and ears. Only in the recent 2-3 months there has been a huge wave of uploads to YouTube with AI-'supported' songs and albums that are 'remakes' of famous rock/pop artists - but in a reimagined genre-changing way.
This has of course been done by human musicians for years (e.g. turning a rock tune into jazz, or pop into metal, etc.), there are even very good cover bands who have been doing this for a long time. However, this is (mostly, or entirely, I guess) AI-driven. The music as well as the accompanying funny artwork.
We all know that AI music is a hot topic and heavily discussed issue in the music industry right now. There are problems due to many insecurities with copyright when AI use an artists music as models. Then there are the many artifical bands/artists who publish "their own music" with "own lyrics". Many people don't like it. Often it still sounds cheap and generic, and yet sometimes some people are confused if it is 'real or not'. I remember I posted some examples of AI 'artists' being criticised in the other general AI thread. I was not so convinced - so far - of the lyrical or musical quality shown either. It still seemed fake.
Again, the videos in this thread are different though since with remakes there are understandably no copyright issues - just the rights of the artist to their original work of course, but YT is full of cover songs anyway, so the usual rules might apply, just as they do for covers by humans, I suppose. Moreover, in some cases the songs/albums are even marked as "AI" by the uploader (which is often only one person I guess). So they are made obvious to be intended as 'fakes' instead of being a real human cover band.
When I clicked on one of the first videos of this kind only about a week ago or so I did not expect anthing great and thought it was the same generic and dull AI slop. I would have liked to bash it too, as usual. Well ...
However, there's a snag to it: Believe it or not, most of it is actually pretty good. Or at least astounding. And fun. And scary. All of it.
Many of these reimagined genre-swapping covers feature a 70s-funky or disco sound, some also 80s music (synth pop). But there's many other examples of source and target genres.
As a musician and consumer of music, I naturally find this new development highly interesting. And it is fun, at least in my ears and eyes. But check for yourselves. There are quite a few channels now doing this (as said, most of them only since very recently!).
I chose some channels as main focus: Conhuir, FAKETUNES, ReGrooved and Fake Music, but you might find other producers/uploaders on the YT sidebar of the videos then.
As you will see, this is going on right now and you can find a lot of recent uploads on all of these channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@FAKETUNES-f6n/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@conhuir/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@FakemusicBr/videos
As many in the 'YT comments section of the videos say, it is very amazing and totally scary at the same time. But decide for yourselves.
Here is only a few examples from the flood of new videos:
First, the two "black albums" of rock music's most famous, AC/DC and Metallica, reimagined as 70s-funk bands:
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Here's some song examples:
First is ACDC's Back in Black again from another uploader, also as 70s funk:
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Here's an iconic indie/alternative rock tune turned into an 80s synth pop song:
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Here's an 80s synth pop anthem turned into an 80s hard rock / glam rock tune:
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Depeche Mode 80s song as 90s or 2000s NuMetal:
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I'm a Rush fan, so here's another 70s disco / funky tune I like a lot:
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And here's the disco Bee Gees going full Heavy Metal:
fDwagBmBMcc
You see, I could go on, even further down this rabbit hole, but I'll better stop.
:silent:
So ... if you find more to be interesting or worth showing, please post it all here.
Or discuss what you think about this recent development. Is it dangerous, scary? Or just good entertainment? Is it good or bad in quality?
Well ... Maybe I am too positive about it but for me - currently - the fun part outweighs the negative aspects for these quirky remakes. I see it as comedy.
But what is your take?
It's happening right now before our eyes and ears. Only in the recent 2-3 months there has been a huge wave of uploads to YouTube with AI-'supported' songs and albums that are 'remakes' of famous rock/pop artists - but in a reimagined genre-changing way.
This has of course been done by human musicians for years (e.g. turning a rock tune into jazz, or pop into metal, etc.), there are even very good cover bands who have been doing this for a long time. However, this is (mostly, or entirely, I guess) AI-driven. The music as well as the accompanying funny artwork.
We all know that AI music is a hot topic and heavily discussed issue in the music industry right now. There are problems due to many insecurities with copyright when AI use an artists music as models. Then there are the many artifical bands/artists who publish "their own music" with "own lyrics". Many people don't like it. Often it still sounds cheap and generic, and yet sometimes some people are confused if it is 'real or not'. I remember I posted some examples of AI 'artists' being criticised in the other general AI thread. I was not so convinced - so far - of the lyrical or musical quality shown either. It still seemed fake.
Again, the videos in this thread are different though since with remakes there are understandably no copyright issues - just the rights of the artist to their original work of course, but YT is full of cover songs anyway, so the usual rules might apply, just as they do for covers by humans, I suppose. Moreover, in some cases the songs/albums are even marked as "AI" by the uploader (which is often only one person I guess). So they are made obvious to be intended as 'fakes' instead of being a real human cover band.
When I clicked on one of the first videos of this kind only about a week ago or so I did not expect anthing great and thought it was the same generic and dull AI slop. I would have liked to bash it too, as usual. Well ...
However, there's a snag to it: Believe it or not, most of it is actually pretty good. Or at least astounding. And fun. And scary. All of it.
Many of these reimagined genre-swapping covers feature a 70s-funky or disco sound, some also 80s music (synth pop). But there's many other examples of source and target genres.
As a musician and consumer of music, I naturally find this new development highly interesting. And it is fun, at least in my ears and eyes. But check for yourselves. There are quite a few channels now doing this (as said, most of them only since very recently!).
I chose some channels as main focus: Conhuir, FAKETUNES, ReGrooved and Fake Music, but you might find other producers/uploaders on the YT sidebar of the videos then.
As you will see, this is going on right now and you can find a lot of recent uploads on all of these channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@FAKETUNES-f6n/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@conhuir/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@FakemusicBr/videos
As many in the 'YT comments section of the videos say, it is very amazing and totally scary at the same time. But decide for yourselves.
Here is only a few examples from the flood of new videos:
First, the two "black albums" of rock music's most famous, AC/DC and Metallica, reimagined as 70s-funk bands:
aQLJ4j2d2k4
LeRd7xIlmz0
Here's some song examples:
First is ACDC's Back in Black again from another uploader, also as 70s funk:
QlAx3Ij3fvc
Here's an iconic indie/alternative rock tune turned into an 80s synth pop song:
6hdxnNYxtJs
Here's an 80s synth pop anthem turned into an 80s hard rock / glam rock tune:
GX7QQlAeIfs
Depeche Mode 80s song as 90s or 2000s NuMetal:
b85Y_1vP_pU
I'm a Rush fan, so here's another 70s disco / funky tune I like a lot:
dju4e74Dqf0
And here's the disco Bee Gees going full Heavy Metal:
fDwagBmBMcc
You see, I could go on, even further down this rabbit hole, but I'll better stop.
:silent:
So ... if you find more to be interesting or worth showing, please post it all here.
Or discuss what you think about this recent development. Is it dangerous, scary? Or just good entertainment? Is it good or bad in quality?
Well ... Maybe I am too positive about it but for me - currently - the fun part outweighs the negative aspects for these quirky remakes. I see it as comedy.
But what is your take?