The Beatles - Gotta Love Technology

I think to call this a Beatles’ song is a stretch. At best it’s a Lennon song from his late solo era that has posthumously been added to by McCartney and Ringo, with some echoes of Lennon’s melody by Harrison (which by the sounds of it have been re-recorded by McCartney anyway).

But of course they couldn’t resist calling it a Beatles’ record to give it maximum publicity.

Having said all that I’m looking forward to hearing it. But, from the clips I’ve heard, stylistically it just doesn’t sound very Beatles-esque.

The technology has been used in the right way here to extract the voice from the piano which enables them to mix it properly. As opposed to using AI to get Lennon to sing a Nirvana song which, to me, is a bit messed up and morally questionable.

It leaves me pining for an era I did not live through but feel I did because I grew up listening to Beatles’ songs. It’s very sad that many young people do not know who the Beatles were and may only have heard their songs via sped up versions on TikTok. It would be nice if they could ‘discover’ their back catalog after hearing this new song release.

Zedcars said:

I think to call this a Beatles’ song is a stretch. At best it’s a Lennon song from his late solo era that has posthumously been added to by McCartney and Ringo, with some echoes of Lennon’s melody by Harrison (which by the sounds of it have been re-recorded by McCartney anyway).

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It's a Beatles song. They developed it the same way The Beatles developed all of their individual songs, with McCartney taking on the task of sculpting the sound as he did in their later years as Lennon's interest waned. Is it the same as all of them sitting in a room together? No. But then that was apparently a rarity toward the end anyway.

By the way, I was amused by the way they kept showing Pro-Q3, as if it was the magic bullet that allowed them to do all of it.

This seems a nice and innocuous application of AI. But here's something slightly more disturbing.


So, first, here's cover version of the song, which shows, I think shows, quite plausibly a very real influence:





But then we have an AI version, which ... yikes.





And it goes on:

ism said:

This seems a nice and innocuous application of AI. But here's something slightly more disturbing.


So, first, here's cover version of the song, which shows, I think shows, quite plausibly a very real influence:





But then we have an AI version, which ... yikes.





And it goes on:

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Interesting experiments, but none of them is remotely convincing, although the Black Hole Sun comes closest.

robgb said:

Interesting experiments, but none of them is remotely convincing, although the Black Hole Sun comes closest.

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Very true. But it's good enough that you can *imagine* what John would have sounded like singing these songs.

It not completely out of the uncanny valley yet. But, kind of disturbingly, it's close enough that I find hearing these vocals quite moving in their evocation of John's voice.

John would have loved Nirvana that’s for sure. The two biggest influences of my youth and honestly still.

Great to imagine him covering these, thanks for these goofy AI videos. Made my night haha.

imo besides not being convincing, none of the examples,even the Beatles recreation really sounds like John.
There’s an artificial homogenized clean smooth sheen to all of the vocals unlike John when he actually sang,absolutely no rasp.

The examples kind of capture his tone but misses with the texture.

These things just leaves me cold. Music from a band that was active 50 years ago, and replicated lookalike music by computers. Eww

And while I’m old enough to be expected to appreciate this, I just don’t. This “see what we can approximate with binary coding“ culture is boring, uninteresting and breaks no new ground, imo.

robgb said:

It's a Beatles song. They developed it the same way The Beatles developed all of their individual songs, with McCartney taking on the task of sculpting the sound as he did in their later years as Lennon's interest waned. Is it the same as all of them sitting in a room together? No. But then that was apparently a rarity toward the end anyway.

By the way, I was amused by the way they kept showing Pro-Q3, as if it was the magic bullet that allowed them to do all of it.

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So they just slapped Spectralayers on some dirty takes and did a bit of EQ'ing and Bob's your uncle?

Music is not the arcane art people think it is.

Crossroads said:

So they just slapped Spectralayers on some dirty takes and did a bit of EQ'ing and Bob's your uncle?

Music is not the arcane art people think it is.

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No. That's not even remotely what they did.

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