How bad are the otehr Halftime shows when such a medioce performence from Prince gets so much love and instantly became the best Half time show ever done??
It's like people praising that While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo as being the best he ever played lol, that solo is compared to most of his solos decasdes bwefore pretty tame and by the numbers or just another tuesday.

JorisE73 said:

How bad are the otehr Halftime shows when such a medioce performence from Prince gets so much love and instantly became the best Half time show ever done??
It's like people praising that While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo as being the best he ever played lol, that solo is compared to most of his solos decasdes bwefore pretty tame and by the numbers or just another tuesday.

Which brings us back to the beating the dead horse, who by now is just dust pressed a few feet into the ground :
curating Prince's Work in a proper manner, so as to communicate the real extent of his musicianship.

But maybe that boat has sinked, as there's serious chance the very meaning of what it is to become a musician
totally eludes the mind of the alpha generation, save for a few sons of the bourgeoisie who are given
the luxury of time and means to pursue the craft.

I came across the video of a bass player, which I found one of the most interesting takes
about the current mindset about AI-generated music. He did a survey on Reddit,
and the responses he received are chilling.

It's long, but do yourself a favour and watch it in bites if you must,
as the second part explores the accelerationist mindset of the tech bros,
and gives a terryfing summary of the psychopathy at work, which extends way beyond art.

[Edited 2/3/26 10:42am]

BonnieC said:

JorisE73 said:

How bad are the otehr Halftime shows when such a medioce performence from Prince gets so much love and instantly became the best Half time show ever done??
It's like people praising that While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo as being the best he ever played lol, that solo is compared to most of his solos decasdes bwefore pretty tame and by the numbers or just another tuesday.

Which brings us back to the beating the dead horse, who by now is just dust pressed a few feet into the ground :
curating Prince's Work in a proper manner, so as to communicate the real extent of his musicianship.

But maybe that boat has sinked, as there's serious chance the very meaning of what it is to become a musician
totally eludes the mind of the alpha generation, save for a few sons of the bourgeoisie who are given
the luxury of time and means to pursue the craft.

I came across the video of a bass player, which I found one of the most interesting takes
about the current mindset about AI-generated music. He did a survey on Reddit,
and the responses he received are chilling.

It's long, but do yourself a favour and watch it in bites if you must,
as the second part explores the accelerationist mindset of the tech bros,
and gives a terryfing summary of the psychopathy at work, which extends way beyond art.

[Edited 2/3/26 10:42am]

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Thank you for these links – I'm listening right now. Great stuff.
Actually, it's also deeply moving, and it gives me thoughts I can use in something I'm working on.
Thanks again.

[Edited 2/3/26 11:32am]

BonnieC said:

JorisE73 said:

How bad are the otehr Halftime shows when such a medioce performence from Prince gets so much love and instantly became the best Half time show ever done??
It's like people praising that While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo as being the best he ever played lol, that solo is compared to most of his solos decasdes bwefore pretty tame and by the numbers or just another tuesday.

Which brings us back to the beating the dead horse, who by now is just dust pressed a few feet into the ground :
curating Prince's Work in a proper manner, so as to communicate the real extent of his musicianship.

But maybe that boat has sinked, as there's serious chance the very meaning of what it is to become a musician
totally eludes the mind of the alpha generation, save for a few sons of the bourgeoisie who are given
the luxury of time and means to pursue the craft.

I came across the video of a bass player, which I found one of the most interesting takes
about the current mindset about AI-generated music. He did a survey on Reddit,
and the responses he received are chilling.

It's long, but do yourself a favour and watch it in bites if you must,
as the second part explores the accelerationist mindset of the tech bros,
and gives a terryfing summary of the psychopathy at work, which extends way beyond art.

[Edited 2/3/26 10:42am]

Watched the first 6 minutes of the video and I 100% agree woith that guy, that Suno guy can go get himself fucked by some AI generated BBC, so no need to see more. Ai music sucks and will always feel empty and lifeless. As a guitarist who has been in a plethora of hobby bands for the last 40 years I can't imagine any fun in having to 'engage' in a record I bought any other way then to listen and enjoy or not, the music and my experience won't be any better if I have to 'actively' engage with it in some other way then just listening and experienceing it. Let the kids play with there nonesense AI music, I'm to old and have heard to many real atrists and music to have any respect for AI generated nonsense.
What's next hanging some etch a sketch nonsense in the Louvre and pretend it's 'art'??

JorisE73 said:

How bad are the otehr Halftime shows when such a medioce performence from Prince gets so much love and instantly became the best Half time show ever done??
It's like people praising that While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo as being the best he ever played lol, that solo is compared to most of his solos decasdes bwefore pretty tame and by the numbers or just another tuesday.

I always felt that way about those 2 performances, too. But as I said many times, Europeans, Urban America and funkateers were not the target audience. Those performances were aimed at rockers and White Middle America. It obviously worked.

databank said:

JorisE73 said:

How bad are the otehr Halftime shows when such a medioce performence from Prince gets so much love and instantly became the best Half time show ever done??
It's like people praising that While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo as being the best he ever played lol, that solo is compared to most of his solos decasdes bwefore pretty tame and by the numbers or just another tuesday.

I always felt that way about those 2 performances, too. But as I said many times, Europeans, Urban America and funkateers were not the target audience. Those performances were aimed at rockers and White Middle America. It obviously worked.

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Prince's halftime show has that huge wow-factor going for it from the start: the rain, and the fact that they (well, most of them) are playing live. That's already enough for a lot of folks to declare it to be the greatest ever. And of course most never seen Prince live before, so they are unaware that he used to be even better than that.

But as Frank said: you can't do that on stage anymore.

JorisE73 said:

BonnieC said:

JorisE73 said:

How bad are the otehr Halftime shows when such a medioce performence from Prince gets so much love and instantly became the best Half time show ever done??
It's like people praising that While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo as being the best he ever played lol, that solo is compared to most of his solos decasdes bwefore pretty tame and by the numbers or just another tuesday.

Which brings us back to the beating the dead horse, who by now is just dust pressed a few feet into the ground :
curating Prince's Work in a proper manner, so as to communicate the real extent of his musicianship.

But maybe that boat has sinked, as there's serious chance the very meaning of what it is to become a musician
totally eludes the mind of the alpha generation, save for a few sons of the bourgeoisie who are given
the luxury of time and means to pursue the craft.

I came across the video of a bass player, which I found one of the most interesting takes
about the current mindset about AI-generated music. He did a survey on Reddit,
and the responses he received are chilling.

It's long, but do yourself a favour and watch it in bites if you must,
as the second part explores the accelerationist mindset of the tech bros,
and gives a terryfing summary of the psychopathy at work, which extends way beyond art.

[Edited 2/3/26 10:42am]

I just checked it out quickly just to see if I was interested in watching the whole thing (I am!) and I just saw that bit where it says some people said they mostly listen to their own AI generated music. This echoes something I read last week about the erosion of shared culture thanks to Internet niches and, now, AI, that assumed that soon, people will watch AI generated films on Netflix that would be designed especially for them according to their tastes, and that no one else would ever see.

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Thanks to the Internet and AI, and putting aside the existential risks associated with the latter, I am more and more convinced that we're witnessing an unprecendented cultural shift at a global level. And despite being a technoprogressist at heart, I am more and more terrified of the outcome... in great parts because no one is truly addressing it.

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It's not that there's no literature about it, but if you look at the media's headlines and politicians' political discourses (and, obviously, voters' preoccupations), we have a situation—the changes and threats that are already taking place thanks to those new techs—that is fundamentally the most important thing going on at the moment, and everyone's acting like nothing's happening and everything will go on being the same forever.

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What will be the main topics of the next presidential election in France in 2027? Most likely immigration and islam, the national debt, people's purchasing power, Ukraine and/or the general geopolitical situation, a little bit about the environment maybe, and probably little to nothing about AIs...

databank said:

BonnieC said:

Which brings us back to the beating the dead horse, who by now is just dust pressed a few feet into the ground :
curating Prince's Work in a proper manner, so as to communicate the real extent of his musicianship.

But maybe that boat has sinked, as there's serious chance the very meaning of what it is to become a musician
totally eludes the mind of the alpha generation, save for a few sons of the bourgeoisie who are given
the luxury of time and means to pursue the craft.

I came across the video of a bass player, which I found one of the most interesting takes
about the current mindset about AI-generated music. He did a survey on Reddit,
and the responses he received are chilling.

It's long, but do yourself a favour and watch it in bites if you must,
as the second part explores the accelerationist mindset of the tech bros,
and gives a terryfing summary of the psychopathy at work, which extends way beyond art.

[Edited 2/3/26 10:42am]

I just checked it out quickly just to see if I was interested in watching the whole thing (I am!) and I just saw that bit where it says some people said they mostly listen to their own AI generated music. This echoes something I read last week about the erosion of shared culture thanks to Internet niches and, now, AI, that assumed that soon, people will watch AI generated films on Netflix that would be designed especially for them according to their tastes, and that no one else would ever see.

.

Thanks to the Internet and AI, and putting aside the existential risks associated with the latter, I am more and more convinced that we're witnessing an unprecendented cultural shift at a global level. And despite being a technoprogressist at heart, I am more and more terrified of the outcome... in great parts because no one is truly addressing it.

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Agree.
And how it will effect the fate of the Prince Vault: by the time significant amount of unreleased masters start to come out, the market will already be full of fake, AI-generated "Prince songs", and the youngsters won't be able to tell the difference, or even worse: they won't even care which is real, which is not. In my eyes, that puts a whole new responsibility on the shoulders of McMillan & Co, and an urgency they don't even see yet. Unless they wake up soon, we're going to have to witness the rapid devaluation of the entire P Vault, as the people put in charge of protecting Prince's legacy will be the ones who will destroy it.