Bruce Springsteen's new protest song is important because it's AUTHENTIC and human - not AI

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5. I am well aware they are not the same. I am making TWO points in one posting.

And, FORGETTING THE AUTOTUNE ISSUE FOR THE MOMENT, to the second point: I am speaking to the pulling of disparate digital recordings of instrumentals and tacking them together--whatever you want to call that today as opposed to actually recording the instrumentals at the same time or at least in the same studio later-- to combine & produce the final recording. Recording together does not mean they have to all be in the same room a la Beatles doing their "Get Back" or "Let it Be" documentary recordings. But, searching for some unknown playing a digital instrumental track and/or using AI to generate it and using it to back a singing track may be today's preferred way of doing so, but it certainly is not mine (nor Springsteen's fortunately).

But, back to point 1, I still hate Autotune and will not listen to the crap vocalists who use it. I am aware there are fare more technologically advanced alternatives to Autotune that are less obvious and obnoxious. But, those are the performers who have to be blasted out by backing recorded vocals or instrumentals in concert because they can't begin to sing anything comparable to the recording. It is telling. Today we have tons of singers who really cannot sing and for all the technology to "fix" that, it shows.