# AI covers of classic songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-covers-of-classic-songs/1024200 "2025-10-22T20:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-covers-of-classic-songs/1024200/1 "2025-10-22T20:06:27Z")
This should go over well. People are using AI to make remixes or change the genre of various songs. Some of the results are good. Are there others that people are seeing that they feel are worth listening to? Here is a 50s soul remix of ‘bullet with butterfly wings’ by the Smashing Pumpkins [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OCc6siZfWeU/maxresdefault.jpg "The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings (soul remix)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCc6siZfWeU) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-covers-of-classic-songs/1024200/2 "2025-10-22T20:10:27Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > This should go over well. I hate AI. I hate its mindless stupidity, wrong answers, and how it contributes to the dumbing down of humanity. More, I hate wasting our precious desert water running AI farms in Arizona. I hate AI YouTube videos full of crappy images, blatantly wrong data, and computer narration that can’t pronounce simple words twice the same way. Given that, I love some of these songs. I wish I could buy some. I heard a rockabilly version of ACDC that was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-covers-of-classic-songs/1024200/3 "2025-10-22T21:24:40Z")
I came across one of these for the first time about a year ago on YouTube. It was a Soul version of the entire _Rubber Soul_ Album. I was blown away and started down that rabbit hole. Each video seemed less impressive than the last. I eventually went back to the first video and didn’t even get through “Taxman” before I lost interest. I don’t know if I’m too easily bored or if the human brain subconsciously starts to detect the pattern of tricks being used to create the auditory illusion of authenticity. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-covers-of-classic-songs/1024200/4 "2025-10-22T21:24:48Z")
Or, you could, you know, see actual humans with talent, creativity, and energy do covers of classic and popular songs in different styles: > **[Lake Street Dive](https://www.lakestreetdive.com)** > > Lake Street Dive’s new album “Good Together” is Out Now! > **[PostmodernJukebox](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORIeT1hk6tYBuntEXsguLg)** > > Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox: Bringing you "Today's Hits, Yesterday" since 2010 🕰 > (Vintage style covers, new music for Old Souls, etc. etc.). > Welcome down the PMJ Rabbit Hole! > For 2024-25 World Tour Tix, music downloads, merch, instant updates... Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-covers-of-classic-songs/1024200/5 "2025-10-22T22:09:28Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I hate AI. I hate its mindless stupidity, wrong answers, and how it contributes to the dumbing down of humanity. More, I hate wasting our precious desert water running AI farms in Arizona. I hate AI YouTube videos full of crappy images, blatantly wrong data, and computer narration that can’t pronounce simple words twice the same way. > > Given that, I love some of these songs. I wish I could buy some. I agree with everything you wrote. And in my case, it’s this AI cover of “Paint It Black”. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BMzb0c9bYks?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDBMzb0c9bYks They at least had the decency to call their channel “Fake Music Lab”. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-covers-of-classic-songs/1024200/6 "2025-10-22T22:41:26Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Each video seemed less impressive than the last. My theory of “the first is the best”, when encountering something new and outside the norms, like AI songs. > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I don’t know if I’m too easily bored or if the human brain subconsciously starts to detect the pattern of tricks being used to create the auditory illusion of authenticity. And that could be why. > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Or, you could, you know, see actual humans with talent, creativity, and energy do covers of classic and popular songs in different styles: I would, if they did anything I liked. I didn’t see a single rockabilly ACDC cover, or anything else. > **[Back In Black (Rockabilly)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoqcVnv8SLQ.1)** > > Back In Black (Rockabilly) #acdc #rock #rockabilly #50s But I do own Paul Anka Rock Swings, and many Hampton String Quartet albums.