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I don’t really think Lennon and McCartney would’ve become “AI musicians” in the way people talk about it now. If anything, I think AI would’ve just expanded the way they already worked. A lot of Beatles songwriting, especially later on, already feels less like isolated composition and more like continuous studio driven reconstruction. Small motifs becoming full arrangements through repetition, accidents, editing decisions, tape manipulation, different takes suddenly changing the emotional direction of a song, etc. That’s why I sometimes feel people frame AI music too narrowly, like it’s only about replacing songwriting. Because realistically, tools that generate melodic variations, harmonic directions, vocal textures, or alternate rhythmic structures do not necessarily remove authorship. They just shift where authorship happens. McCartney honestly feels naturally compatible with that kind of system to me. He already seems like the type of musician who could spend hours exploring parallel variations of the same melodic idea. Lennon less so, but I could absolutely imagine him reacting strongly to unexpected outputs or strange emotional artifacts coming out of generation systems. The interesting thing is that AI kind of destabilizes what a “song idea” even is. Traditionally you might start from a riff, chord progression, lyric fragment, whatever. But once systems can continuously generate possibilities around a seed idea, the process becomes much less linear. The DAW stops feeling like a recording space and starts feeling more like navigation through different unrealized versions of the same track. Honestly this is already how my own workflow feels sometimes. I don’t really use AI to “make songs” for me. Most generated material gets discarded almost immediately. Usually what survives is something much smaller. A harmonic movement, a vocal phrasing, a texture that suddenly reframes the emotional direction of the track. And honestly, I think Lennon and McCartney would’ve been unusually good at that part specifically. Not generation. Selection. submitted by /u/dogtrainer0875

Originally posted by u/dogtrainer0875 on r/ArtificialInteligence