Are You Falling Too Much In Love With Your Own AI Music?

I sometimes ask my wife if I’ve simply fallen in love with my own stuff now that Suno has perfected it. I play these tracks every day. I truly love them. I return to them again and again, still amazed that they began with me.

Yet they did. The songs I spent my life creating began in quiet hours searching lost horizons for answers, and now they are finished. I wrote music while actually living, and by living I mean sacrificing, and by sacrificing I mean sitting on them without a clue as to how to get them out there. Ideas unloved on servers. Notebooks tossed in suitcases.

Now, I listen to other people’s AI music, too, and, as a former music reviewer, I can say it’s okay. But they ain’t like mine. Not like mine at all. Midrange earworms—whether from humans or machines—simply won’t work on me, but it’s more than that. I hear decades of my existence given a final form by Suno whenever I listen to my own material, and that it did not die unplayed is optimism personified.

I am a collector. I have collected a human lifetime of music: recommended it, seduced via the twentieth century mix tape, the best songs. If a track is on my playlist, it is eternal. I get to say that now. No journeyman am I.

And because I know what eternal music is, I know that I have written it.

So yes, I have fallen deeply in love with my own music. What are you going to do now? Get mad at me? You knew this was coming. Am I concerned? No, I am vindicated.

You can’t imagine decades of writing, collecting, and curating my life during the last century—alone, working unloved jobs with a bone to pick in a notebook, skipping the clubs and bars. Some say the AI makes it. Suno doesn’t make it. Suno shows up with a virtual army of tireless engineers and studio players who put wings on my airplane and ballast in my submarine. But I bring real life, real feeling, and real taste to the masterpiece.

Have you fallen for your own creations? Drop your favorites in the comments. I am always building new playlists.