R&B artist Kehlani isn’t a fan of artificial intelligence in music.
The Grammy-nominated artist shared her feelings after learning that Ai artist Xania Monet signed a three-million-dollar deal with Hallwood Media and broke into the Billboard charts.
See her reaction below:
She went in on the Ai saying:
“This is so beyond out of our control. Nothing and no one on Earth will ever be able to justify AI to me,”
Her reaction came as news spread about Monet’s chart success.
Xania Monet has already reached No. 25 on the Emerging Talents chart; additionally it holds the No. 21 spot on the Hot Gospel Songs list.
The Ai project is led by poet and designer Talisha Jones, using the AI program Suno to turn her poetry into fully produced tracks.
Kehlani’s criticism of Ai in music went deeper. In a later post she’d write against such things saying:
“1. i’m genuinely sad for people who are trying to come up and their space is being taken up by a computer program.
“2. people saying ‘damn i don’t care she’s so relatable.’ IT, not she, is taking all of the data it’s collected on us and what we want, and is tailoring to us. even down to the voice.
“3. ‘well the creator is a poet who can’t sing but wanted to make her ideas come to life’ maybe she should write a poetry book.
I love to support a good poet. i cannot paint. so im not going to create Al paintings and sell them, taking up space from up and coming painters.
This is the antithesis of art. just because you can don’t mean you should. art is not a money grab. music means something significant to culture, to humanity, to people. me personally i’m going to value it that way for the rest of my life.”
