It's easy to ridicule musicians like me who can spend several days on one piece of music, and who do everything short of recording with hardware. That's sooo totally old-timey. The norm has been to use a laptop with a DAW and a few virtual instruments and put together an absolute banger track within one afternoon.

By 2025, it'll be those who'll be ridiculed. And the norm would be to use AI to render a professional-grade, 74-minute album in any genre imaginable within less than these 74 minutes. Including vocals.

At some point in the second half of the 2020s, there'll be a fandom with much more fan music than the bronydom, and next to all of it will be fully AI-rendered. Those who still make their music "by hand" in some way will be outcasts.

Either that, or those who make music the 2010s way with not much more than a DAW will get caught between those who use AIs and those who actually still play instruments and maybe even sing themselves. Unlike all the others, the latter will be able to perform their music live on stage.

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