[RosanaAnaDana]

I mean, if you've listened to a couple Decemberist albums, that criticism extends fully. There are plenty of dull, mediocre, and repetitive songs throughout. I'm listening and reacting to this one now. It would definately fell like a filler song. It lacks the kind of juxtoposition of positionality that Decemberist songs have. Its there but it comes in late and is a bit weak. The cord transitions are also a bit boring. But if you asked me to tell the difference between this and some other filler of theirs I know of, I probably couldn't.

Its also relentlessly positive in a way that Decemberist songs rarely are. Both acoustically and lyrically, which having played with ChatGPT a bit, seems to be a major part of its training. It avoids negativity in big ways. The Decemberists dont necessarily, and so it feels very gushy and bright in a way that it shouldnt.

[escapedmoose]

Agree that the Decemberists have some comparatively mediocre filler songs on their albums, but I struggle to think of one that's this bad.

[FleurBouquet]

I mean how much time did they really put into this though?

Don't forget that beauty is in the eye of the beholder too. I had never heard the Decemberists before this. Colin has a beautiful voice but I find all their music that I just listened to pretty much mediocre. Mediocrity though is a property of my interpretation of the art and not the art itself.

I don't think a strength of chatGPT though is song lyrics. I actually would love to be able to rap but any rap lyrics it comes up with are overly simplistic in the rhyme structure.

The average lyric across the space of all lyrics is practically the definition of mediocrity.

[coss]

Just made this same argument without reading your comment. I do wonder if musicians will start using this in studios, especially pop ones with one or two hits, to help fill the rest of the album.