Taylor Swift Caught Using AI On Song?
Taylor Swift is getting caught up in the AI drama overtaking the music business. AI has been constantly used, if not overtaken, in almost every industry, and the music industry is no different. If the AI covers and AI-produced beats weren’t enough, artists themselves are now being accused of using artificial intelligence on their songs.
Taylor Swift recently released her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” One of the songs in the album, called “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” is being suspected by fans to be an AI-produced song, or a song created by AI with human intervention in the mix and production stages.
Is Taylor Swift’s “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” AI generated?
Some people have found similarities between the lyrics in the song and the style of writing that Chat GPT and other Large Language Models generate. Others have said that it sounds like something that came out of an AI music generator, like Suno or Udio.
While the doubts only prove the supremacy and accuracy of these generative artificial intelligence music creation applications, it’s still far from the truth. Let’s get into why we say so.
Artists like Taylor Swift work with a team of songwriters and music producers. It’s definitely possible that a songwriter may have generated some lyrics from AI for inspiration. There are some metaphors in the lyrics that do sound AI-written.
Phrases like “glittering prime” and “lights refract sequined stars off her silhouette every night” may be AI-written, but are still objectively beautiful lyrics that fit well with Taylor’s story.
There are similar phrases, but whether or not the lyrics are AI-generated, they are very cleverly crafted and artfully written and have Taylor’s personality imprinted all over them.
Did Taylor Swift really use Suno?
Next, while platforms like Suno and Udio are perfectly capable of producing well-mixed and produced songs, the mixing and production of this song are too elaborate, spatially extensive, and creative to be AI-generated.
When songs are mixed-mastered by engineers, they work on stems. Which are essentially multi-tracks of all instruments bounced out into multiple files. Like one file may contain a kick drum, and the other may contain just a violin. One file is of just the lead vocal, and there could be tens of separate backing vocal files.
When you listen to Taylor Swift’s, “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” with that perspective, and with those ears, you’d understand the detail and layering that went into perfectly mixing this beautiful song.
While Suno and Udio output a single cohesive file, to mix-master a record of this quality, you’d need those stems in their best quality. This is why, while the songwriting and production might have been inspired by or done with the help of AI, it cannot be completely AI-generated.
