Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters claims that AI and social media erode people’s ability to think and feel.

The overhyped rock musician turned political pundit goes on to say powerful interests exploit technology, politics, and war for profit. Like, he doesn’t?

Speaking to Russian media, the 82-year-old geriatric musician welcomed Australia’s decision to bar fully AI-generated songs from its music charts.

A NIMBY (Not in my backyard)

The seriously rich multi-millionaire Roger Waters complains that streaming platforms have gutted musicians’ livelihoods with minuscule royalties while concentrating ownership and profits in the hands of Big Tech.

‘Piracy has almost destroyed everything. But if they are then allowed to use AI to produce crap for their very tame audience who pays so much a month to get any music that they want from anywhere.

So, Where’s His Problem?

We know that a large number of that audience won’t be able to tell the difference between AI and Pink Floyd, or Neil Young, or Bob Dylan, or The Beatles or anything else.’

MICHAEL WALSH: Rock isn’t my kind of music and co-owned Pink Floyd certainly isn’t. Hardly a descendant of Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert, Pink Floyd made its fortune from rebellious race-mixing pulp.

We Don’t Need No Education

The ‘band’s’ biggest hit was ‘We Don’t Need No Education.’ Whoever dreamed that title up proved you can’t fix stupid. Imagine making millions out of a hit with a title that would make any schoolteacher cringe and which denounces education.  

$310 Million

Roger Waters wealth from his rock star career is estimated at $310 million. The group’s wealth is estimated at $690 million. Yet he whines about AI competition.

This is the guy who pocketed $310 million from minuscule royalties.

Cultural Syphilis

The music anarchist whose lyric-free, overhyped hits were the epitome of cultural syphilis now complains that Artificial Intelligence is competing with his ‘music.’

The Competition is Better

Artificial Intelligence has opened the door to destitute poets, songwriters and lyricists who were firewalled out of the music business by his prostituted music industry.

Thousands of truly talented songwriters had the doors of fame slammed in their faces by the music industry’s big hitters who decide what is fashionable in the music Millionaires Row.

Artificial Intelligence Music Backing

The competition Waters and his cult are afraid of has finally opened the doors to music people’s democracy by providing a music background to poetry, songwriters’ lyrics and the excluded real talent of the real world.

Let us recall that the great stars of Country Music like Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, George Jones; far too many to name here but loved the world over, wrote and published their own songs.

They became loved and recognized by their own indomitable spirits and determination. They were not prostitutes of the music industry

You Decide

As a non-conformist songwriter, my lyrics were outlawed by the hi-tech music monoliths who made millions from the heavily promoted Pink Floyd. Who listens to Top Twenty now?

A Poem is a Violin without Strings

As an example, click The Embers of Europe are Dying or The Nation of the Downcast Eye.

These and other Michael Walsh song poetry lyrics were seen and enjoyed by very few.

LEFT. Mike Walsh Songwriter-Poet

All Change for the Better

Then AI came along and provided what the music industry had denied them for decades: a music background.

I contend that the AI-generated music backing these once muffled ballads proves my point. AI musical backing is far superior to the soulless crap promoted by the fashionistas of the music industry. But you decide.

‘I regard all pop music as irrelevant in the sense that people in 200 years won’t be listening to what is being written and played today. I think they will be listening to Beethoven’. ~ Elton John. Let readers know what you think

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