AI Can Make Music, But It Can’t Give Us Meaning
Recently, I've been having lots of conversations with friends about the pros and cons of AI. I'm kind of on the fence because I know it's a really helpful tool but it's also a powerful 'toy' that we don't fully understand yet.
Then I came across this article in The Guardian the other day, and it really made me think.
A whole band and 2 albums, made entirely by artificial intelligence. No voices, no bodies, no people. I mean it was inevitable, wasn't it?!
The extent of human ingenuity is undoubtedly impressive.
However: music, for me, has never been about the end product. It’s never been about polish or perfection. Just like any other art form, it's all about the process.
It’s about what happens to us when we sing. Together. When we sing we breathe more deeply, we feel more fully, we ground ourselves in our bodies.
We sing to connect - to the people around us, and to parts of ourselves that words can’t quite reach. We sing for joy, for release, for remembrance, for the sheer aliveness of it.
You don’t have to be ‘a singer’ to sing. You just have to show up with a voice and a willingness to be present. Because when we sing together - in real rooms, with real voices, sharing real time - we remember what it means to be human. Not perfect. Not produced. But real.
AI is here, and it’s not going away. It strikes me our work now is to make sure we don’t lose the things it can’t replicate.
Embodiment. Emotion. Togetherness.
And singing - messy, moving, heart-led singing - is one of the best ways I know to hold onto that. So here’s your reminder:
